Limited research has been undertaken to explore how construction workers’ personality affects safety behavior. Most of the previous literature in the field of health and safety especially in the construction industry has been focusing on managerial, non-occupational accident,s or somewhat other aspect accident causation. Indeed, construction is known as one of the most dangerous industries globally, therefore, this study estimates the importance of personality traits in relation to risk behavior in the workplace. The objective is to review and identify which dimension of personality traits (big five models) are more effective on occupational accident to suggest a new model that is helpful in the construction industry in order to reduce the accident rate. The finding showed that neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness compare to the other personality traits are more effective on both occupational/non-occupational accidents, while, the effect of agreeableness and conscientiousness on improving safety performance was overwhelming. On the other hand, there is little evidence to show the meaningful and efficient connection between occupational accidents and extraversion. Extraversion and openness were appropriate only to affect non-occupational accidents. Finally, this research presents the appropriate model which is worthwhile to improve the safety performance in the construction industry.

Measuring and evaluating nurses’ performance are vital to identify areas for improvement in maintaining quality of service delivery and ensuring sustainability of current practices. This study attempts to examine the content validity of the nurses’ performance scale. It is also aimed to achieve acceptable criteria for content validity of this instrument. Construct and content domain of nurses’ performance were identified followed by items generation and instrument formation. Subsequently, assessments of content validity were performed based on content validity Index (CVI), Inter-rater agreement percentage (IRA%) and modified Kappa statistic. Two level of judgement were performed using the lay expert panel and research expert panel. Criteria were established based on these indices as basis for item reduction process. Pilot study was conducted on 50 respondents to assess the internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha value of finalized NPQ instrument. 71 items are yielded during developmental stage of instrument to measure four dimensions of nurses’ performance. Assessment of content validity based on lay and research expert judgement resulting in elimination of 27 items (38%). Computed modified Kappa statistic further supplemented that the remaining 44 items as ‘excellent’. As for conclusion, NPQ instrument has attain acceptable criteria of content validity assessment utilized in this study and therefore proved its potential for further research

This article examines a credit channel of the monetary policy transmission mechanism in India. One hundred thirty-two commercial banks in India were studied for ten years, from 2009 to 2018, using STATA for data analysis. The question of this study is: do bank features and macroeconomic variables combine to influence credit supply in India? According to the data, the bank's features have a large and negative liquidity ratio compared to the loan amount. Furthermore, there is a significant but negative relationship between the interaction of inflation and interest rates with the liquidity ratio and loan amount in India.

Penyelidikan ini bertujuan mengkaji perhubungan di antara faktor stesen kerja ergonomik dan akibat stres. Sampel seramai lima ratus operator pengeluaran telah dipilih daripada sebelas organisasi perkilangan elektronik yang berdaftar dengan Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MICCI) dengan menggunakan kaedah persampelan rawak berstrata berkadaran. Kaedah soal selidik telah digunakan dalam proses pengumpulan data kajian ini. Penemuan utama menunjukkan reka bentuk stesen kerja ergonomik merupakan strategi penting dalam meminimumkan akibat stres dalam organisasi. Analisis korelasi Pearson mengukuhkan kenyataan ini dengan menunjukkan kesemua faktor stesen kerja ergonomik mempunyai kekuatan hubungan yang signifikan dengan akibat stres. Analisis regresi linear berbilang menunjukkan faktor kesihatan, reka bentuk ruang kerja, kerja syif, sistem pengudaraan dan tempoh masa bekerja mempunyai hubungan signifikan dengan akibat stres. Komponen stesen kerja ergonomik pula membuktikan bahawa faktor manusia dan persekitaran mempunyai hubungan yang signifikan dengan akibat stres. Kata kunci: Ergonomik; stres; operator pengeluaran; stesen kerja; organisasi multinasional This study aims to examine the relationship between ergonomics workstation factors and the work stress outcomes. Five hundred samples of manufacturing operators were derived from eleven manufacturing electronics organizations which were registered with Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MICCI) by using proportionate stratified random sampling. Questionnaires were used for the data collection process. The major finding shows that ergonomically designed workstation is an important strategy in minimizing the work stress outcomes in organizations. These findings have been supported by the Pearson correlation analysis which shows that all ergonomics workstation factors have high significant correlation with the work stress outcomes. The multiple regression analysis shows health, work area design, work shift, humidity system and working hours factors have significant relationship with work stress outcomes. Furthermore, ergonomics workstation components proved that the human and environment factors have significant relationship with the work stress outcomes. Key words: Ergonomics, stress, manufacturing operator, workstation, multinational organizations

Knowledge transfer (KT) is an attempt by an entity to copy and utilize an explicit type of knowledge from another entity. The main reason is none other than to expand the ability and increasing the value through inter-organization collaborative affiliation. Nonetheless, questions may arise as to what extent do capabilities, mechanism and performance or success is associated. Using inputs from 154 respondents which consist of various KTP (knowledge transfer program) partners namely from the community (total 94) and industry (total 60), this article highlights the associations between the three main categories of variables. Using Smart PLS (partial least squares), the study provides evidence that academia knowledge, academia readiness, academia skills, and ethics and conduct affect KTP performance through the mediation role of KT mechanism. Academia readiness was also found to be the most significant predictor to KT mechanism. In summary, all the significant capabilities have indirect positive impact towards KTP performance. Thus, higher education institutions must emphasize their internal strength in order to continue supporting the success of inter-organization collaborative affiliation.