In order to mitigate the anticipated oversupply of office space, it is necessary to gauge the preference of office occupiers, namely tenants of purpose built office buildings, since these tenants form the indicator of demand for space. In this study, a multi-criteria decision making method (MCDM) – the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) procedure was employed to analyse the relative importance of the main factors chosen by the main sectors of tenants at top grade office buildings in Kuala Lumpur city centre. This study had identified the elicitation of experts’ opinion and tenants’ selection comprises twenty-six important factors for office occupation in Kuala Lumpur city centre, grouped under four main categories: Location, Lease, Building and Financial/Cost. This study then employed AHP to assess the relative importance placed on each category, revealing the varying patterns of preferences when tested on tenants from three main business sectors occupying top grade office buildings. The findings showed that, between the three sectors (Finance/Banking, ICT & Media and Oil & Gas), differences in preference were only slight for most factors but were significant for a few. The findings from this study are insightful in informing decisions on future office provision, particularly in the context of working towards satisfying office tenants’ requirements.
The current employment market in Malaysia requires the graduates to be more workplace competent, hence requiring the necessary soft skills. This paper attempts to highlight the key soft skills that have been identified by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Malaysia in its move to enhance graduates' employability. To incorporate these soft skills in the undergraduate programmes at universities, MOHE has suggested the following implementation methods to enhance these soft skills for the undergraduate programmes at universities. They are development of soft skills by embedding it in the existing syllabus, the development of soft skills through stand-alone subject, development of soft skills based on campus life, development of soft skills on support programmes, soft skill finishing schools, development of soft skills base on formal and informal activities at faculty levels, and lastly industrial training. Views from the industry are sought to provide an indication of the importance of the identified key soft skills in the real estate area so as to make the necessary emphasis on the curriculum development.
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