Papers by Charles Ramendran
Attrition or better known as student dismissal or drop out from completing courses in higher lear... more Attrition or better known as student dismissal or drop out from completing courses in higher learning institutions is prevalent in higher learning institutions in Malaysia and abroad. There are several reasons attributed to the attrition in the context of student in higher learning institutions. The degree of attrition varies from one institution to another and it is cause for concern as there will be a lot of wastage of resources of academic and administrative besides the adverse effect on the social aspect. In view of this, minimizing the attrition rate is of paramount importance in institutions. There have been numerous nontechnical approaches to address the issue, but they have not been effective to predict at early stage the likelihood of students dropping out from higher learning institutions. Technical approach such as data mining has been used in predicting student attrition by some researchers in their past research work. However, not all prediction data mining techniques a...
Purpose – Excessive stringent enforcement of outdated legal regulatory frameworks in employment l... more Purpose – Excessive stringent enforcement of outdated legal regulatory frameworks in employment laws of a protectionist flavour can arguably cause companies difficulty in implementing organizational changes by depriving the ability of such companies to make economically sustainable adjustments due to such regulatory frameworks in the name of job security. Organization change can take place in many forms and in the climate of such organizational changes, low-priced surplus labour dictate the redundancy and discharge from work which is becoming commonplace in the life of employees. The purpose of this paper is to address whether job protection governing labour law provisions in Malaysia is excessive in terms of the present climate of economic viability and sustainability and how it impacts adjustment to organizational changes. Design/method/approach – Using a selection of Industrial Court cases and Malaysian Employment Act 1955 and Industrial Relations Act 1967 to observe the seeming ...
International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2020
The issue of foreign workers has received increase media and national attention. However, to date... more The issue of foreign workers has received increase media and national attention. However, to date there has been limited research on the nature and consequences of employment of foreign workers in Malaysia. Introduction of significant changes in recruitment phenomenon has ended in painful and traumatic atmosphere which barely acceptable by local workforce in Malaysia. This conceptual paper can be derived from the field of industrial relations which play a significant role in employment of foreign workers. The article reports on the preliminary findings on employment status of local workforce and trade union rights affected by employment of foreign workers. In addition, the research makes a number of recommendations, including the need for further development on reducing the employment of foreign workers and more refined targeting of vulnerable foreign workers linked with labor
Corona virus or most popularly known as the Covid-19 has paralyzed the people movement as well as... more Corona virus or most popularly known as the Covid-19 has paralyzed the people movement as well as various sectors that includes the education sector. Henceforth, it gave a breakthrough for academia to venture themselves into work from home with the aid of information technology. It is known as online teaching and learning (OTL). Frequent and continuous usage of OTL to conduct lessons for learners from home may take a toll on the health aspect of academicians. Demographic factors associating with the factors related to ergonomic settings among academicians will be the focus of this study. Data was collected from private universities in Malaysia by using online platform. Association rules technique based on unsupervised approach had been used to find interesting patterns between demographics and ergonomic settings. With association rules, finding co-occurrences of demographics factors leading to the factors of ergonomic settings is the main strength of the technique. Despite many rese...
The excitement of travelling from hometown to a university, well dressed along with carrying note... more The excitement of travelling from hometown to a university, well dressed along with carrying notes and laptop, attending classes physically with friends has become a myth in year 2020 and perhaps until the end of the year 2021. COVID-19 has robbed the lifestyle of being a university student and transformed the learning system into online. However, from the perspective of digitalization, it’s an achievement but a sudden change has stirred many conflicts on the mental health of students in terms of accepting drastic movement taken by the university due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Academic performance of students is in limbo as they tend to avoiding registered for subjects due to lack of absorbance of changes in the mode of learning with limited facilities to support them along the way. In response, it gives monumental pressure to grasp the subjects via online where it can affect the academic performance of students. This study investigated the state of mind of students who are undergoin...
The changing nature of public employment policy, with increasing emphasis being given to skills-b... more The changing nature of public employment policy, with increasing emphasis being given to skills-based solutions to economic competition, and work-based solutions to social deprivation have driven the recent interest. In order to gain better skills and to have better employment security, training is an important step to both employees and employer. Training is essential in today’s competitive labor market. This is due to the demand for skilled workers which far exceeds the supply. In addition to employing professional and technical skilled people, employers have invested a lot on training to enhance the employee's skill as this group is a huge contributor to the organization's growth. Employees will be able to attain employment security only if they manage to master necessary and critical skills which is the main concern of employers and the organization on thus current fast moving economy and business environment .Although there are many labor laws and employment acts to pro...
Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
The crucial step for organisations which are recruiting Generation Y into their workforce is to u... more The crucial step for organisations which are recruiting Generation Y into their workforce is to understand their perceptions and expectations. This would help organisations emerge with the right strategies to attract and retain the Generation Y cohort. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the body of knowledge base in respect of Generation Y expectations and perceptions on their career choices and its influence on leadership. However, due to lack of academic research on the career expectations and perceptions of Generation Y that deems to be important, popular literature and researches were included in this research (Vieira, 2010). The target sample and population were focused on Generation Y who is undergraduates within the Selangor area. A qualitative method was used in this study to gather perceptions. Although twenty participants were targeted as the sample, the findings and discussions of this research are based on fifteen responses due to the invalidity of the remaining f...
Sustainability
The emerging population has increased travel demand and improved public transport mode in cities ... more The emerging population has increased travel demand and improved public transport mode in cities to connect the people. (1) Background: This study used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to assess the usage behavior for city rail transport with the factors attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control and its impact on pro-behavioral intentions to increase the actual usage of rail transports, i.e., LRT, MRT, and KTM commuter. (2) Method/Approach: To understand the antecedents of pro-environment behavioral intention, this study performed pilot testing, for which we collected the data through closed-ended questionnaires to test the instrument’s reliability, specifically from the Klang Valley in Malaysia. (3) Findings/Results: This study revealed that the public attitude due to environmental concern and subjective norms and perceived behavioral control are the strongest predictors for public transport usage through behavioral intention. The study estimated that most res...
Journal of Population Ageing
In Malaysia, the fast decline in fertility and increase in longevity (due to better health care a... more In Malaysia, the fast decline in fertility and increase in longevity (due to better health care and improved living conditions) have contributed to a rapid aging population growth. The lack of Health promotion behaviours, healthcare knowledge and awareness among the elderly has led to the increase of Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) (such as Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Hypercholesterolemia, Minor Stroke, Kidney Failure and Heart Problem). These illnesses have killed over 1000 elderly people over the years, and the number has significantly increased. Despite several initiatives taken by the government to tackle the issues, a large group of elderly are yet to benefit from the health campaign. Since the aging population is expected to rise in the future, it equally significant for the government to prepare proper measure to tackle the phenomenon in the coming years. This study, therefore, is to investigate the effect of factors of HPB on elderly health disease in Malaysia. The factors of HPB are measured in 6 aspects, namely, healthy eating, exercise, stress management, interpersonal relations, health responsibility and spiritual growth. A set of 520 survey questionnaires was distributed and collected from respondents located in Perak, Malacca, Penang and Selangor. The statistical analysis result is analysed by using SmartPLS Software 3.0. The data analysis implicated that, elderly health disease is significantly affected by the factors of HPB (healthy eating, exercise, Interpersonal relationship and health responsibility). Therefore, findings suggest that adequate policies for HPB programs is necessary to encourage the practices of healthy eating, exercise, good interpersonal relationship and health responsibility, among the elderly.
IAEME PUBLICATION, 2020
Malaysian Accounting Standard Board (MASB) has issued Malaysian Private Entities Reporting Standa... more Malaysian Accounting Standard Board (MASB) has issued Malaysian Private Entities Reporting Standards (MPERS) on 14th February 2014. MPERS will be the single uniformed standards for all private entities in Malaysia effective from 1st January 2016. In this context, this study intends to examine the perception of Malaysian accounting professionals regarding the desirable and undesirable characteristics of MPERS, the potential challenges of MPERS implementation. This study will examine the perceptions of the three different classes of Accountants, Accountants in public practice, Accountants in SMEs, and Accountants in academia in Malaysia by using quantitative methods with primary data collected from a survey questionnaire. The collected data will be analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. The findings of this study are anticipated to provide useful and timely information to the MASB in making favorable provisions affecting the accounting practices, which in turn, will support the ...
GeoJournal
Two phases of study are involved in this research: first, the sales strategies for affordable hou... more Two phases of study are involved in this research: first, the sales strategies for affordable houses embedded with eco-friendly and smart technology features; and second, the impact of such houses on community happiness in Malaysia. Compared to other studies that focus on the concept of affordable housing, this study proposed a new research perspective on how eco-friendly features and smart technologies can be embedded into the affordable house to achieve community happiness. Qualitative data was collected from four focus group discussions and six face-to-face interviews. Thematic analysis was performed to generate the outcomes. It was notable that affordable price, strategic location, effective government policies, fostering pro-environmental behaviour, promotion and easy smart-home technology installation play an important role in selling the affordable eco-friendly smart house. It was further found that affordable eco-friendly smart housing will result in community happiness. This study offers new knowledge to the affordable house research area by exploring strategies to include eco-friendly and smart technology features. The urge to have these technologies was driven by the demand for current community lifestyle and happiness. This research contributes to the sustainable development goals programme by considering housing affordability, the environment, energy saving and technologies in a single study. It is also beneficial to socio-economic development as it proposes balanced sales strategies that involve social and economic aspects. The inductive approach aims to provide a theoretical framework for future researchers.
International Journal of Law, Government and Communication
Willingness to interact with people from different cultures is the most fundamental factor for su... more Willingness to interact with people from different cultures is the most fundamental factor for successful and effective intercultural communication, and also crucial in the simulation of desire for interaction in such context. However, high-level communication apprehension reduces the level of intercultural willingness to communicate, which eventually affects intercultural communication and vice versa. Meanwhile, some scholars argued that a moderate level of communication apprehension will increase intercultural willingness to communicate. Hence, this study started with the investigation of the level of both communication apprehension and intercultural willingness to communicate and ended with the investigation on the relationship between communication apprehension and intercultural willingness to communicate among multicultural undergraduates from five public universities in Malaysia. A total of 450 respondents were recruited to participate in this study. Neuliep and McCroskey’s In...
International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology
Majority of citizens still not aware of the functions of the identity card. Many Malaysian citize... more Majority of citizens still not aware of the functions of the identity card. Many Malaysian citizens reject to use this technology due to feel of discomfort and insecurity. Technology readiness index are one of the major factors that affect the intention to use identity card (IC) (My Kad). The key objective of our research is to identify the intention to use identity card as multiple user by University students. The respondents consist of 165 university students from the federal district of Kuala Lumpur. Data been collected using a set of questionnaires administered online using Google Forms software. The data was analysed by using SMART PLS- SEM 3.2.8. The results of the analysis show that students exhibit less attention to the use of MyKad as multi-purpose card technology. This is because MyKad is one of the personal identities and it is considered unsafe to use it as a multipurpose card. The implications of the study, drawbacks of the study as well as future research suggestions h...
International Journal of Engineering & Technology
Hotel industry is one of the important segments that contribute greatly to the world’s economy. T... more Hotel industry is one of the important segments that contribute greatly to the world’s economy. The intention of employees to quit is very crucial in any organization especially in the service industry. The importance of this study is to provide some insights on how organizations, (specifically hotel industry) could apply various management styles to different generations in the workplace. Nearly 269 usable survey questionnaires have been collected from 25 unionize hotel employees in Peninsular of Malaysia and the data has been analyzed with partial least squares (PLS) 2.0.The studies reveal that factors like performance appraisal and remuneration are not important factors for Gen Y employees to leave the organization. Moreover R square shows 58.6 %, which negatively relates to an intention to quit, explaining total variance. The findings show that, Gen Y have a set of characteristics that is different from other employees and they are always on a look out to innovate and...
Background: The study focused on the perception of healthcare professionals on safety performance... more Background: The study focused on the perception of healthcare professionals on safety performance in the sector. Objective: The aim of the study is to assess the safety performance among healthcare professionals. This study examines the factors affecting safety performance in Malaysia. The results are expected to provide insights into the provision of a safety management programme for high level of safety performance. Design: The study uses a quantitative instrument to explore perceptions regarding the healthcare system and health service based on pilot tests conducted. Respondents: The pilot test respondents were from various departments of two Malaysian private hospitals in Penang and Perak. These medical professionals with representatives from Nursing departments participated across two focus group discussions carried out between July and September 2017. Results: The most important factors impacting the safety performance were perceived motivation, safety management & process imp...
Asian Social Science, 2015
... Peter Yacob Faculty of Business and Finance University of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar, 31900, ... more ... Peter Yacob Faculty of Business and Finance University of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar, 31900, Malaysia [email protected] ... Person organization fit is the type of fit that lead individual will become more successful in organizations that share their personalities (Tom, 1971). ...
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