Income Generation Activities among Academic Staffs at Malaysian Public Universities

Abd Rahman Ahmad,Ngeoh Pei Ting,Ng Kim Soon

doi:10.5539/ies.v8n6p194

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Abstract

Income generation activities have been acquainted among public higher education institutions (HEIs) in Malaysia. Various factors that brought to insufficient of funding caused Higher Education Institutions(HEIs) to seek for additional income as to support the operation expenses. Financial sustainability issues made up the significant impact towards HEIs. Through the different instruments adopted by HEI, perhaps academic staffs are one of the parties that in charge of the income generation at universities. This research employed qualitative method by conducting interviews as a medium to provide insights to researcher. Then, the interviews data are analysed using the Interactive Model. The results pointed out that the main income generation activities originated from the research and consultancy whilst commercialization contributed the most significant income towards university. As a conclusion, the income which generated by the academic staffs is at upmost important to the development and sustainability of a university. Perhaps this research is significant to those who are concerning on the issues of income generating activities arisen among academic staffs. Through the results gained, certain parties may get known to the root of problems and then, solve it. It will eventually help the university to get a better way in order to attain the optimal results in income generation.

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The purpose of this section is to discuss the results obtained in order to achieve the research question one which is to identify the types of activities carried out by University XY academic staffs for the purpose of income generation. It reveals that research, consultation and commercialization activities are the most common income generation activities occur at University XY
Various types of income generation activities should be promoted to the academic staffs that are yet to be involved in it to contribute to the university
The two objectives have been achieved in the research, which the researcher is able to identify the types of income generation activities that involved by academic staffs and the challenges faced by them during the activities are carried out

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Certain amount of budget will be allocated to public universities for the purpose of research and teaching, development and for operation expenses. To shore a university is never a simple mission This shows that the total expenditure of the university can be huge and astonished. The issue of searching of alternative income has arisen This is to ensure that the sustainability of a university can be maintained without over-relying much on the government funding. There comes the responsibilities of staffs in the university, but only academic staffs will be determined in this research

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