This article examines the significance relationships between Type A Behavior Personality and Preferred Human Capital Approach in managing stress within a semi-government organization in Kota Kinabalu. It is necessary to cope with stress from the perspectives of individual level, team level, and organizational level. The research study aimed for identifying the personality stressors and coping strategies. The objectives were to seek the influence of Type A BehaviorPersonality and preferred human capital approach in coping with stress self approach, and Management Support of employees toward managing stress. Human Personality,Occupational Stressors and Non-work stressors that affected the respondents are examined, yet difference between male and female in coping with stress is study. The results concluded that Type A Behavior Personality has significant relationship with Self-coping Approach, and Management Support. Organizational Stressors and Non-work Stressors are not discussed in this article.

Tourism industry is one of the major growing industries in Malaysia. Sabah, a state in Malaysia, recorded a total of 941,765 international tourists and 1,933,996 local tourists in 2012. Malaysia, just like other countries, is affected by climate change and this, in turn, could affect the travelling decisions made by the tourists. Indicators of climate change such as temperature, geographical location and rainfall are some of the major potential threats to travelling and places of attractions. Research methods used in previous studies include survey, simulation, statistical model, empirical evidence, interview and focus group. This study employed three methods, content analysis, Delphi technique and survey through questionnaires to gain a better understanding on climate change, tourists’ perception on climate change and the impact on their decision making. By using these three methods, this study attempts to identify the dimensions of climate change, to examine the link between these dimensions and perception, and the impact of climate change on tourists’ decision to visit Sabah.

This paper provides an insight to investigate the relationship between the knowledge and factors of climate change, tourism supply, and decision making of the tourists that travelled to the State of Kota Kinabalu. Climate change is defined as a pattern of weather change through a periodictime that ranges in decades. Literature review suggested that climate-changed locations impacted the arrival of the tourists. The affected elements are shortening duration of snow cover, reduction of the number of days with snowfall, glacier retreat. The dramatic changes lead to the reduction of recreational activities such as skiing, glacier hiking, and ice tubing, that all of these come with higher maintenance cost. Apart from it, the melting of permafrost destabilizes the ground conditions, making activities of Alpanism such as hiking, walking, rock climbing routes becoming more dangerous of rockfall to the tourists and even to the local settlements. Climate change would have four impacts on tourism development: direct impacts, indirect and long-term impact, lifestyle change, and induced impacts. Hence, this study attempted to study the relationship amongst the variables.

The concept of poverty is subjective and it varies in many perspectives based on the indicators used. The objective of the study is to determine the concept and definition of poverty through exploring the collection of poverty definitions from different sources in order to set its own standardized of operational poverty definitions. This exploratory study will be based on qualitative research methodology. The output of study provides with a clear concept of poverty definition.Â

This paper provides an insight on the human resource practices and workers‟ employability in hotel in the Philippines and Malaysia. Turnover rate was reported being relatively high in the hotel industry of Malaysia, and employee retention is a major concern amongst the hoteliers in Malaysia especially the absence of local workforce with less willingness and not attracted to work in the hotel industry. This paper in general seeks to clarify and explain the different human resource practices in employing workers and their employability sampled. The objective of the paper is to clarify the human resource practices that are practiced in the organization in recruiting local and foreign workers, and its relations to the employability of the foreign workers. The sampling size involved more than six hotels in Kota Kinabalu, four hotels in Kuala Lumpur, and three hotels in Palawan, and one hotel in Quezon City. The selected locations are based on the locations that the researchers have travelled and stayed in. Respondents involved are employees working in the hotels, with minimum six (6) months working experience in the hotel, and also involved or/and knowing the human resource procedures in recruitment and selection. The findings from these four (4) locations suggested that locality plays an important role in engaging and retaining employees, and foreign workers are capable to socially adjust and are fast-learners. Local workers are also able to absorb the working environment with foreign workers and benefitting from it, rather than having promotion dis-opportunity. The study concluded that succession planning and promotion opportunity with career advancement are highly recommended to retain employees in hotel industry