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Abstract-This study is conducted in order to examine the adoption of internal marketing activities in small and medium enterprises in Malaysia. On top of that, this particular study is designed in order to investigate the conception of internal marketing by business manager's task adding to the limited empirical evidence regarding internal marketing especially in a developing country like Malaysia. Base on previous literature and few in depth interviews with the SME's managers, a set of questionnaires related to internal marketing practices in SME's Industry has been designed. Few dimensions have been used in this study such as group interaction, wage flexibility, collegial interaction, job flexibility, external environment and formal interaction. Basically the result of the study will give some input to those governmental agencies such as MECD to understand the level of adoption of internal marketing activities among the SMEs in Malaysia particularly. With this, it will provide some direction to the agencies in designing and developing appropriate training related to managerial approach especially in term of the soft part of human resource practices that would lead to competitive advantage to the organization.

For decades, academic cheating is one of the imperative topics that have been uncovered in the field of education. In fact, recent statistics on academic cheating among students in higher education institutions are reported to be on the rise. The main purpose of this study is to examine factors contributing to academic cheating behaviors among business students in a public university, in Malaysia. This quantitative research is intended to determine the relationships of internet facilities, lack of competencies, negative attitudes and pressures towards academic cheating. A total of 364 tertiary students were involved in this study. Descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation and multiple regressions were used to analyze the data collected and to test hypotheses. The results found that negative attitude was the most significant predictor of academic cheating. Therefore, it is hoped that the results of this study will enlighten the educators and higher education institutions to better understand the reasons behind the occurrence of academic cheating activities among undergraduate students.

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