Perceived Benefits and Risks: A survey data set towards Wolbachia-infected Aedes Mosquitoes in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. Introduction: The paper presents data collected using measures of perceived benefits, perceived risks, trust in key players, attitude towards nature versus material, attitude towards technology, religiosity, and attitude towards the Wolbachia-infected Aedes mosquitoes (WiAM) technique. The validated questionnaires were used to randomly survey targeted stakeholders in the Klang Valley, Malaysia, who had been asked to voluntarily participate in face-to-face interviews. Completed questionnaires were received from 399 respondents (adults above 18 years old) and comprised two stakeholder groups: scientists ( n = 202), and the public ( n = 197). The detailed findings serve numerous opportunities to examine the social acceptance of Wolbachia-infected Aedes mosquitoes, to ensure the development of policy and action plans, and to encourage further study by other researchers interested in the measures and data presented.
Gender related studies are always engaging. Due to higher percentage of working women, many efforts are channeled to explore issues pertaining to women-at-work. Since many of these working women are also married and some with children, they seem to be dealing with more work-life conflict issues than men. Based on quantitative findings on 118 working women in the country, the following findings were drawn. Household responsibilities and financial needs have significant effect towards work-life conflicts. The rising costs of raising a family and having to deal and balance the responsibilities at work and at home seem to contribute to the work-life conflicts. However, the study failed to establish a significant relationship between workplace environment and work-life conflicts. It is hoped that the outcome of this study could shed some light on greater understanding about women at work.
There are two streams of literature regarding relationship between gender and various organisational outcomes and variables affecting performance. Some scholars have found that there are significant differences between males and females regarding their leadership behaviours, entrepreneurial orientation and how organisations perform. Thus, the focus, development and assistance provided to male and female entrepreneurs are different. However, findings also indicated that there is no significant difference between genders. In this study, data were taken from 395 respondents representing either the owners or top managers of various SMEs organisations operating within the manufacturing and services sector in Malaysia. Within the context of SMEs in Malaysia, the result failed to recognise any significant differences between male and female respondents with regards to their leadership behaviours, entrepreneurial orientation and organisational performance. Male and female owners and top managers of SMEs in Malaysia were perceived to be the same in their leadership orientation, entrepreneurial approach and outcomes for organisations. The novelty of this research lies in its attempt to explore gender differences of leaders of SMEs in Malaysia.
This paper focused on the issues of customer's trust within the telecommunication industry in Malaysia. This paper looked into the importance of perceived organisational justices towards customer trust. In the event of service recovery, it is important for the managers to monitor closely the current processes (procedural justice), outcomes (distributive justice) and the communication between employee and customer (interactional justice). This with help the organisation to maintain customer loyalty and minimize customer switching to a different mobile provider. Primary data is collected through survey questionnaires from 181 customers who are the major mobile users in the industry. Likert scales were used and all variables demonstrated good values of consistency. This study found that, procedural justice, distributive justice and interactional justice are all having significant relationship towards customer trust. It is an indication that perceived organisational justice is an important antecedent for customer trust especially during service recovery period.
Employee turnover is a major challenge faced by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the services sector in Malaysia. It is found that this sector has faced a conservative turnover for the past two years and further studies need to be done to solve this problem. To minimize turnover, employees need to feel safe, valued, and satisfied. Many previous literatures showed that organizations that implement and increase the level of Perceived Organizational Support (POS) among employees could help to overcome turnover problems. Increasing the level of POS is believed to help strengthen the relationship between employee and employer, thereby reducing employees' intention to seek or accept other jobs. This study aims to analyze the validity and reliability of measuring tools designed to identify how POS affects employee turnover in Malaysian SMEs. This study also extends POS research by demonstrating support for a multidimensional measure of supervisor support, organizational justice, and organizational rewards & work conditions. A quantitative method was used and a pilot test for the reliability of the questionnaires was carried out by using SPSS to examine the results of Cronbach's Alpha. There were 33 respondents from the services sectors who participated in answering the questionnaires. The questionnaire contained 42-items and was developed after a detailed analysis of the literature. Overall, all components show measuring components under the given component providing a reliable internal consistency measure as the alpha of Cronbach for POS and Turnover Intention ranged from 0.784 to 0.856.
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