Codifying Project Management Best Practices: An Appraisal of Property Developers in Malaysia

Abdul-Aziz, Abdul-R.; Chan, Yi-Huan; Lim, Yaik-Wah

doi:10.1080/15623599.2004.10773047

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“…This situation also interferes with the focus of the teachers in performing tasks, teachers' relationships at school and can affect the teaching and learning process of students and school achievements (Karsenti & Collin, 2013). Abdul-Aziz, Chan and Lim (2004) explained that there were some symptoms that lead to subordinates with low motivational work such as increased absenteeism, employees are late and early in the workplace, workers show low quality of work, conflicts among members of the organization as well as conflict with the management, rejecting the change and being apart from the unpleasant relationship between other parts of the organization.…”

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Principal Transformational Leadership and Teachers’ Motivation

Abdullah¹,

Ling²,

Sufi³

2018

AES

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This descriptive study aims to identify the relationship between the principal leadership and motivation among the national school teachers in the town of Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia. A total of 283 teachers via random sampling method were chosen from twenty-one national school in the district of Seberang Perai Selatan, Penang. The questionnaires constructed by Leithwood and Jantzi (1999) and adapted by Anandan (2011) have been used to measure the principal transformational leadership. The questionnaire of Teacher Motivation Questionnaire by Chung (2012) was used to measure work motivation among teachers. The findings presented that the transformational leadership in the teacher's perspective is very high while the work motivational level among the teachers is high as well. The findings show that there are significant differences in both leadership style and teacher motivation towards teachers' gender. Relationship analysis also indicated that there was a significant positive correlation between transformational leadership and teachers' work motivation. Regression analysis also displayed that the best predictor of teachers' motivation is the individual support in transformational leadership. In conclusion, this study recommends that principals should be competent in applying transformational leadership to improve teachers' innovation in accordance with the school suitability and the needs of the situation.

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Principal Transformational Leadership and Teachers’ Motivation

Abdullah¹,

Ling²,

Sufi³

2018

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“…Sourcing commercialised knowledge from external sources saves on cost (Cohendet and Meyer-Krahmer, 2001). In Malaysia, some speculative property developers were likewise found to adopt commercially available project management best practices for their own internal use (Abdul-Aziz and Lim, 2004). There were certain organisational aspects associated with Companies A, B, C and D that maligned knowledge management initiatives.…”

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Knowledge management of foreign subsidiaries of international oil and gas contracting companies

Abdul‐Aziz

Lee

2007

International Journal of Energy Sector Management

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Purpose -To present the findings of a study which examined the application of knowledge management of subsidiaries of foreign oil and gas contracting companies in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach -The subsidiaries were examined on how engineering and project management knowledge was created, captured, stored, shared and protected. These processes were traced by looking at the organisational facets of culture and structure, human resource management, information and communication technology and parental control. Five companies formed the sample population. The multi-case study approach was adopted to take into account the likely variability of the sample population. Data were collected and triangulated using postal questionnaires, face-to-face interviews and secondary sources. Findings -Four subsidiaries were found to manage knowledge, albeit in varying ways. The fifth subsidiary was subjected to strong control by the parent to the extent that it had minimal knowledge base which thus obviated the need for knowledge management.Research limitations/implications -The one respondent-per-subsidiary approach may have led to possible response bias, although triangulation of data served to minimise the effect. Practical implications -The subsidiaries of oil and gas contracting companies in Malaysia which have yet to manage their knowledge asset holistically should take note of their rivals which have been re-defining competitiveness in this manner and should, therefore, react similarly. Originality/value -This study highlights the strong influence the parent companies of oil and gas contracting companies have over the degree to which knowledge is dispersed to their subsidiaries and the manner in which the latter are permitted to manage their knowledge asset.

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Codifying Project Management Best Practices: An Appraisal of Property Developers in Malaysia

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Principal Transformational Leadership and Teachers’ Motivation

Principal Transformational Leadership and Teachers’ Motivation

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