This study identifies the effect of government financial support services (GFSS) on the relationship between two dimensions of psychological factors in business ventures. As such, the study uses small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of various Malaysian sectors as samples, with two constructs used to represent the dimensions of psychological factors, namely, risk-taking (RT) propensity and self-confidence (SC). The study results revealed that both constructs had a significant influence on the propensity to venture into business (PVB). However, GFSS had an insignificant moderating effect on the relationship between the two dimensions and provided input for policy makers to enhance GFSS efficiency in order to positively affect the growth rate of new businesses in Malaysia. Hence, this study bridged the research gap by identifying the influence of GFSS on PVB. As GFSS are an important tool for stimulating growth of the new business venture, the findings of this study have implications for policy makers to improve the quality and effectiveness, especially the delivery of GFSS to the targeted group.
At the end of December 2019, China faced severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 (COVID-19) which caused a "very high" risk assessment ranking. Unfortunately, it has spread all over the world and has caused a great number of fatalities. In view of this, a study of the non-parametric statistical method was carried out with the aim of detecting and quantifying the outbreak of COVID-19. From the univariate analysis, daily cases had the highest mean value indicating widespread data from the outbreak of COVID-19 in Malaysia. However, the worst output in the future during the RMO must be prepared with the help of the Government of Malaysia's Ministry of Health due to the high standard deviation value recorded. In addition, the western coast of Malaysia has been reported to have the most in comparison with the other regions. The Mann-Kendal test shows a declining trend pattern for new cases during RMO3 compared to RMO1, RMO2 and RMO4, with a dramatic increase in the Covid-19 outbreak during RMO1. Overall, the results show downward trends following the implementation of the RMO. These results have shown that the Malaysian Government has implemented an effective strategy to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.
Despite the increase market in catering industry by 37% per year, the number of SME-catering service firms is only 30.000, or only 5% from the total number of SME in 2016. From 30,000 registered catering service company, only 10% is an active business with annual growth rate (3%). In order to achieve competitive advantage and growth, firms will develop appropriate competitive strategy, strategy which directly relate to firm performance. The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of the relationship between competitive strategy and firm performance in a different entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimension. The statistical results revealed a) innovativeness, risk taking and proactivenss were found to have a significant and positive moderating effect on the relationship between differentiation strategy and firm performance b) innovativeness, risk taking and proactivenss were found to have a significant and positive moderating effect on the relationship between CL strategy and firm performance.
Seaports are a vital trade gate for almost every nation in the globe. Seaports are now moved from its traditional role for solely providing services for storage or transit to a more important role especially in the wake of rising competition and operating cost. The aim of this study is to analyses the vital components needed for the improvement of the port operation for dry bulk terminals in Malaysia's port. 200 set of questionnaires were distributed involving all of the 18 Federal and States port (Penisular and Borneo) that have dry bulk terminal and only 120 were returned. With a 60 per cent response rate, this is consider as good to justify the result in Malaysia's port. With Cronbach Alpha reliability test of 0.945, the findings found that all of the variables (loading efficiency, infrastructure improvement, time performance and operation improvement) are significant and complementing each other in correlation test. It is recommended for future study to improve the framework by adding more variables or items. Keyword-Dry bulk terminal, operation improvement, Malaysia's port I. INTRODUCTION In Malaysia, port industry plays a very important role in the growth of its economy and development. It was estimated that 95% of the Malaysia's international trade is carried out by seaborne (Maritime Institute of Malaysia., 2013). According to the Bernama (2013), Malaysian ports are among the top 20 world busiest port in the world. This reflects that seaport industry has a huge impact on the Malaysia's economy. Seaports link the sea and the land for transporting goods using different mode of transportations. It connect ships that bring import cargo, or load the export cargo on one side, and onto the road or rail to move the cargo out, or bring in the cargo, as the case may be. According to Maritime Institute of Malaysia (2013) in 2012, Malaysian seaports handled total cargoes of about 480 million of tones from the total 505.26 million tones (RM 127.66 Billion). It also expected to grow 9.5% (523.3 million tones = RM 139.74 Billion) in 2013 due to strong sustainable growth in the country and strong intra-Asian trade. One of the main trades in Malaysia's seaport is Dry Bulk. Dry bulk trades comprises of huge portion of terminal services in the world. Servicing the dry bulk trades are 1,525 terminals located in 1,003 seaports in over 120 countries, of which 317 terminals offer to handle iron ore, 458 bulk fertilizers and 628 coals (Dry Cargo International, 2010). Hence, to handle such substantial services, efficiency is a priority. For example, reducing the time at the anchorage, berth and also at stockpiles is the main agenda for improving the efficiency of the terminal. The high demand around the world for dry bulk cargo inflicted a lot of pressure on the port terminals to increase their capacity. Many dry bulk terminals around the world are expanding and seriously increasing their capacity due to the high demand for energy and mineral resources (Lodewijks et al., 2009). In 1993, Malaysia faced with difficulties as the pro...
In response to the demanding change in work environments, most companies not only depend on traditional training, but also on e-learning and emphasizing it in safety and health. The benefits and cost effectiveness of the benefits of e-learning training are trusted. Nevertheless, accidents still happen at the workplace. This has become an issue to be studied, especially on the effectiveness of e-learning training in comparison to traditional training. In this study, a framework to measure comparative effectiveness between these two learning environments was developed based on Kirkpatrick’s four-level evaluation model and a case study was applied to test all the levels of the framework. These four levels include participant reaction, learning, achievements, behavior of employees, and results. The interview results indicated that there is no difference in the rating of the effectiveness of the two training methods based on Kirkpatrick’s model.
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