Top Administrators Research Articles

Determination Of Knowledge Management In Malaysian Public Universities

Knowledge management is the functions involved in the management of data, information, and knowledge in the form of expertise and experience gained from information created, transferred, or stored in the heads of individuals or documented in written form in organisational standards, procedures, or systems. Knowledge management is a difficult but vital job for educational institutions. In contrast, thorough research in public universities is severely circumscribed. This study evaluated the essence of knowledge management through the lenses of leadership, organisational culture, and information management. This article will analyse how top administrators at Malaysian public institutions manage knowledge and identify the regulatory framework for knowledge management at Malaysia's public universities. In addition, the future of senior administrators in Malaysian public institutions is contingent upon leadership, culture, and technology to control knowledge management. Face-to-face interviews with top management leaders and university senate members from around Malaysia were used to collect qualitative data, which was then analyzed using ATLAS.Ti. Leadership, organizational culture, and information technology were found to play a key role in knowledge management. Thus, the finding underscored the significance of knowledge management for improved quality and efficiency in university practise

A Study on the Impact of Sustainable Leadership and Core Competencies on Sustainable Competitive Advantage in the Information Technology (IT) Sector

The study is focused on assessing the impact of sustainable leadership and core competencies on sustainable competitive advantage in the information technology sector. The data are sourced from primary and secondary data. The primary data are sourced from IT sector employees. The secondary information is sourced from earlier publications related to sustainable leadership, sustainable competitive advantage, and core competencies. The primary data were collected through the field survey method, although some were collected via an online mode. The sample size was 297. The study used a simple stratified random sampling technique. The study results described a significant effect of sustainable leadership on sustainable competitive advantage. Sustainable leadership improves the prospects of associations in terms of their creation, constant advancement, sustained competitive edge, and long-term success. Sustainable leadership is a wellspring of gaining the upper hand for associations. Sustainable leadership benefits associations, development, consistent improvement, a supported upper hand, and long haul achievement. The study also found that the core competencies significantly influence the competitive advantage. The discoveries of the current study have significant ramifications for customers, top administration, and policymakers. The practitioners of IT companies are urged to cultivate an inventive and open correspondence climate in their associations dependent on existing logical discoveries. Likewise, they could utilize the current outcomes as a benchmark for gradually expanding their qualities and limits, which may prompt better natural productivity.

Effectiveness of Human Resource Information System on HR Functions of an Organization

HRM (Human Resource Management) is particularly imperative in a learning based economy, where thoughts and mastery are extraordinarily esteemed, and an imaginative and inventive workforce is important to meet the difficulties of this new economy. Productive and compelling administration of human capital is progressively a basic and complex procedure. Thus, there has been a significant increment in the quantity of associations assembling, putting away, and examining data with respect to their HRs using a product which is HRIS (Human Resource Management System). The developing significance of HRIS is because of the acknowledgment of HR experts that IT (Information Technology) and IS (Information System) ought to be a piece of HR capacities principally to create and utilize better HRM programs. This appropriation of HRIS by associations consolidated with the expanding modernity of this product, gives the HR work new difficulties which requests the HR experts to partake and contribute completely to their organizations, as genuine key business accomplices/strategic partners. This paper endeavours to recognize the viability and the significance of the utilization of HRIS on the HR elements of an association. It incorporates the top administration, chiefs, and official of HR working in assembling, administration and IT areas. Results give experiences into HRIS practice, its belongings and viability and demonstrate that HRIS is of direct importance & confirms fulfilment of the HR capacity. Furthermore it furnishes HR experts with chances to upgrade their commitment to the vital heading of the firm.

THE IMPACT OF MOTIVATIONAL INCENTIVES ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

Over the long haul, there has been a consistent expansion in most Indian enterprises, the emergency is a consequence of helpless working conditions, rigid principles, poor and deferred instalment of laborers' wages and compensations. Again, the emergencies likewise result from the disappointment of the top administration to appreciate to the human component as the most pivotal element and the determinant of accomplishment of objectives and destinations this outcome into dissatisfaction which shows itself distinctively by individual or laborers. It is a perspective on this that this exploration expects to check out the impact of inspiration on worker execution in an association taking India packaging organization plc as a contextual investigation. Keywords: Employee’s motivation, Compensation, Contextual analysis, Employee performance, incentives.

Factors Affecting Student Engagement in Online Teaching and Learning: A Qualitative Case Study

Students’ engagement is a decisive prerequisite for effective teaching and learning. Yet, the discussion on students’ engagement in online teaching and learning is still limited. In this study, we explore online lecturers’ perceptions of factors affecting student engagement in online teaching and learning offered at Musamus University, Indonesia. To reach this objective, we employed a qualitative case study using in-depth interviews with 10 online lecturers. Obtained data were thematically analyzed. Results of data analysis revealed that students’ lack of access to a personal computer or smartphone, as well as the internet, were found to be the most significant factors affecting their engagement in online teaching and learning, followed by their poor learning habits, lack of technology skills, and unfamiliarity with technology. Results of this study are crucial for the online lecturers to be more aware of the level of students’ access to a personal computer or smartphones and the internet, as well as incoming students’ digital skills and learning habits. Given that improving students’ engagement is not only the responsibility of online lecturers, university leaders, as the top administrators, should genuinely consider providing teaching and learning facilities, including computers and internet connection, for students in need.

Uncertain Times: A Continuing Care Retirement Community's COVID-19 Communication Response

Within days of obtaining ethics approval for a qualitative study “Optimizing LGBTQ Engagement with Hospice and Palliative Care in the Island Health Region” our local Covid-19 lockdown began. It took several months to have new Covid-19 research protocols (Zoom Town Hall meetings/Zoom or telephone interviews) approved. Being impatient, I teamed with another group of researchers to launch “Covid-19: Your Current Experiences and Planning for the Future,” an online survey with a large qualitative component where we planned to oversample LGBTQ respondents. In time both projects were approved, and here I reflect on recruitment lessons learned. These include my perceptions how Zoom Town Hall meetings and interviews differ from those I’ve conducted in-person, reflections on how to use social media (including targeted Facebook advertising) to recruit participants, and sadly, how to manage anti-LGBTQ sentiment that resulted from even the most targeted advertising.

SWOT Analysis of the Universiti Sains Malaysia Medical Educationists’ Preparations to Make a Regional Medical Education Hub: A Qualitative Study

The aim of this study was to analyse the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that describe the current circumstances of medical educationists in the School of Medical Sciences in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), particularly towards preparing themselves for becoming a regional hub in medical education. A total of 21 documents, including nine strategic management records, three department meeting documents and nine researchers’ observation journals were engaged in this study. The gained data were clustered by themes for each of the four categories which were strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats regarding medical educationists in the USM. High motivation and interest of the lecturers, interest in writing, presence of medical background, experienced in clinicals, experienced in management, presence of good health status, presence of postgraduate medical education and the presence of international students were designated as strengths of medical educationists. Presence of personal challenges, a majority of young lecturers and a majority with no PhD were stated as weaknesses of medical educationists. Positive support from family, strong support from the top administration to the medical education department, positive attention to individual instructors, two instructors having a PhD, supportive cadre, positive international perception to the department of medical education and large opportunities for research and school-provided grants were indicated as opportunities for medical educationists. Financial issues and facilities were expressed as threats to medical educationists. Consistent with the positive mode to move forward, there is a good chance for the USM medical faculty to become a medical education hub.

Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Perspective: Challenges and Solutions: Case Study of University of Bosaso, Garoowe Campus

The researcher of this case study conducted an investigation of ‘teaching and learning in higher education perspective: challenges and solutions with the purpose of to identify the critical problems at facultyof social sciences of UoB GC, and along with a viable proposal forsolving the said the problems.the researched derived this specific problem from a cluster of problems through observation and interviewing some of the top administration of the University including the office of academics, deans, Social Science Faculty staff and so forth to draw a concreate justification to the critical problem out of the general one and then draw a viable solution to the said problem. these includes: 1. An insufficiency of instructional materials for teaching and learning; 2. Lacking regional and/or international accreditation; 3. Aninadequate infrastructure; 4. Decline inStudent Enrollment; 5. COVID-19 Impact; 6. Skill gap in teaching and learning education model; 7. Financial Difficulties; 8. Lacking quality control mechanism in place ; 9. Poor knowledge in information and communication technology; and 10. Unstructured social responsibility response. Consequently, the most critical problem was considered ‘the insufficient instructional materials of higher education institution, particularly the University of Bosaso’ and these factors such as 1. Very limited of qualified higher education lecturers; 2. Absence of University examination board; 3.Absence of Effective Higher Education Commission at Puntland and Federal Level; and 4.limited reading habit contribute the prevalence of said critical problem. To find out the problems along with their solutions, the researcher of this Case Study employed qualitative methods of analyzing the primary data using KII through in-dept interview and face-to-face observation with the Faculty of Social Sciences lecturers and consulted with meeting minutes reports produced at Office of Dean, the UoB faculty of Social Science as secondary data review to analyze the evidences which is about the students’ dependence on handouts during the examination settings. in conclusion, the researcher found out that viable solution is to establishwell-equippedlibrary center of both in physical and electronic managed by a qualified librarian with a full of vigorous innovations and from there to develop a comprehensive workplan with specified time bound to implement the solution by the UoBGaroowe Campus administration which provides a strategic pathway to follow while tackling the said problem.

Retirement of a longtime leader triggers a soul‐searching process

Any planned departure of an organization's top administrator generates a healthy amount of anxiety among staff, and often the community served as well. When the exiting leader has been at the helm for decades and has shepherded a successful organizational transformation, the level of concern about the future can rise exponentially.

Everything hacked? What is the evidential value of the experimental public administration literature?

The rise of behavioral public administration provides new perspectives – especially from a psychological point of view – to understand public administration theories and the growing interest in using experiments to enhance the internal validity of empirical studies. However, psychology and other social sciences are undergoing a replication crisis where experimental results often do not replicate. One reason for the limited replicability is the publication bias sparked by journals’ preference for significant effects and the resulting incentive to create significant results. This study employs a meta-analytical approach to examine the evidential value of experimental evidence in public administration. It uses the p-curve method to test whether this body of research is dominated by selectively reporting significant results. The analysis includes 172 statistically significant findings published in top public administration journals and shows that the distribution of p values of these findings is right-skewed. Such a distribution indicates that the experimental public administration research contains evidential value, which means it is not solely the result of selective reporting of significant results. Although the analysis shows a good sign, we discuss important practices to further strengthen the validity and reliability of experimental methods in public administration.

Integrative Medicine Clinical Centers Keys to Success: Innovative Programming, Education, and Collaboration

Integrative Medicine Clinical Centers Keys to Success: Innovative Programming, Education, and Collaboration

A Study on Workforce Diversity and its Impact on Employee Performance in the Indian Higher Education Sector

In spite of unassuming increments in the arrangement of women in top administration levels in the course of recent years, the extent despite everything stays low at 20% in 2012. Indeed, even with significant proof indicating a positive relationship between gender assorted variety and business execution, women still discriminated at senior administration, official administration and board levels. Through quantitative illustrative examination strategy, the exploration intended to distinguish with which of these elements are advancing and hindering the expanded gender diversity levels in Indian higher education sector. This examination study verified that higher education culture factors advancing expanded gender diversity in higher education division with higher gender diversity levels are distinctive to the factors hindering expanded gender diversity in higher education with low gender diversity levels.

SOCIAL NETWORKING AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE OF MULTINATIONAL OIL COMPANIES IN NIGERIA

The study evaluates the implication of social networking on employee performance of multinational oil organizations in Nigeria. This is done by identifying the social networking needs and its usage for better performance of employees in selected Multinational companies. Using the purposive sampling technique, the study delimited its scope to Rivers state branches of these various oil firms. A sample size of 50 human resource managers constituted the respondents of the study. Using the regression analysis, the study observes that social networking contributes significantly to employee’s performance as captured by the skills learning, knowledge, productivity and motivation. This study shows that social networking become an integral part of respondents’ life and have a strong impact on their organizational performance. Social networking affects working situations of employees of multinational oil firms too. The study recommends that managers and those in top administration in M.N.C.s to take part in creating social Networking. It will empower employees to participate in and center on various dynamic to empower associations and their workers to accomplish better execution. Organizations should divide employees in different categories according to their habits of response on social networks and manage their performance productivity accordingly.

Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay

Abstract Building on agency-theoretical perspectives of public bureaucracies, we argue that politician–bureaucrat preference alignment can have important implications for bureaucrats’ pay. We study such private gains to bureaucrats from their political alignment with elected politicians using detailed data on all 1,632 top administrators active in all Norwegian municipalities over a period of 25 years (1991–2015). Whereas existing studies generally rely on proxies for politician–bureaucrat political alignment, a rare feature of our data allows measuring it directly since 27% of top bureaucrats ran for political office. We focus explicitly on individuals at the very top of the administrative hierarchy and are able to separate the intensive margin (i.e., wage increases) from any additional effects at the extensive margin (i.e., new appointments). Using close elections for inference in a regression discontinuity analysis, we find that politician–bureaucrat alignment significantly increases top bureaucrats’ wage even in the Norwegian civil service system. This has important implications also from a theoretical perspective. Our results indeed go against predictions from models with policy-motivated bureaucrats, but are consistent with politically aligned principal–agent matches being more productive.

The association between cost-standard setting and work performance: The role of information asymmetry and goal complexity

This paper is an empirical testing of the association between Cost Standard-Setting (PSS) on Work Performance (WP), mediated With Information Asymmetry (IA), and Goal Complexity (GC). It is a rule of thumb that PSS setting can lower the level of IA and GC between the managers and the employees and leads to better WP. The present work uses a path model to measure the direct, indirect, and spurious effect between the dependent and independent variables of this study. Data were collected from ten corporate firms in Iraq via a pre-designed questionnaire survey, the questionnaire forms were distributed randomly to the firm’s top management personnel, departmental managers, engineers, accountants, and administrators who are involved in PSS. Around 350 forms were distributed for data collection, however, only 198 forms were considered for this analysis, the rest of the forms were discarded due to incompleteness or missing values. The findings of the study showed a significant direct effect of PSS on WP. Likewise, there was clear evidence of an indirect effect via the mediating variables (IA and GC). The influence of IA and GC confirms the strong association between the independent variable (PSS) on the dependent variable (WP).

Measuring the Causes of Saudi Arabian Construction Accidents: Management and Concerns

Introduction: Research indicate that construction site accidents are a global concern, and rates are rapidly increasing. In developing countries such as Saudi Arabia, safety issues are frequently ignored, and little is known about their causes.
 Objectives: This study aimed to shed light on factors causing accidents in Saudi Arabian construction companies.
 Methods: An online detailed survey, using Google Form, of accident features was distributed randomly to potential employees in 35 construction companies in Saudi Arabia, where one of the top administrators or safety officers were required to respond to the survey. It was conducted from 1st June to 31st August, 2013. The safety practices and perceptions of accident causes were assessed.
 Results: The response rate was 63%. Over half of the surveyed organizations encountered all of the selected accident types. While 19 (86%) of the construction companies maintained the equipment regularly, 15 (68%) had regular maintenance staff and 13 (59%) inspected the equipment before use. Although 18 (82%) of the workers were supplied with personal protective equipment (PPE), only 12 (55%) emphasized its use and offered site orientation for new employees. In the last part of the survey, respondents were requested to rate 25 factors affecting safety performance at the construction sites on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most important. The three most important factors of poor safety performance were the firm's top leaders, a lack of training, and the reckless operation of equipment.
 Conclusion: Changing attitudes of surrounding safety culture have the potential to significantly improve safety outcomes in the Saudi Arabian construction industry. Two Saudi Arabian corporations, Saudi Aramco and Saudi Chevron Petrochemical provide a positive model for increasing construction safety in the country, but there is a paucity of industry-level data. Further scholarly attention is strongly indicated.

K-Means Clustering on the Performance Evaluation of Faculty using Data Mining Techniques

The motivation behind this paper is to give an outline of broadly utilized measurements, to examine the qualities, advantages and disadvantages of different measurements, to portray current instructive information mining rehearses, and to give rules to assessing execution models of staff. has been discovered to be reliant on various boundaries extensively going from the person's capabilities, experience, level of commitment, research exercises attempted to institutional help, monetary achievability, top administration's help and so on The models that are basic for assessing the yield of workforce range across various verticals, however the paper locations and covers the introduction of staff dependent on contribution from understudies. The other personnel introduction assessor is the regulatory element that might be a private body or an administration unit, the affiliation or the college's self-and friend resources. The boundaries fill in as standard markers for an individual and a gathering and may influence the end later on. The standard proposed in this paper is to utilize Data Mining strategies to lead pulling out and investigation of workforce results. The fundamental idea driving the utilization of Data Drawing is to group the yield of workforce on various measures subject to novel requirements and furthermore to separate the conditions between the boundaries that will assist with finding important relations between them. Basically, these binds help to arrange new dynamic patterns. The paper limits contribution from the Department of Computer Applications through qualified foundations to understudies. The examination depends on numerous highlights, and as opposed to following the ordinary methodology, the paper legitimizes the utilization of mining approaches. K-implies is a sort of non-various leveled (gathered) information grouping that endeavors’, contingent upon the methods (mm) that have been pre-masterminded, to segment information into at least two classes. The k-implies technique is utilized in numerous investigations since it is quick and fit for consolidating a lot of information with an exceptionally short computation. The k-implies calculation is the easiest and most often utilized bunching strategy. This is on the grounds that K-implies can possibly aggregate huge volumes of information with sensibly brisk and powerful preparing time.

Changes in Japanese universities governance arrangements 1992–2017

ABSTRACT Based on two national surveys of Japanese faculty members, the purpose of this study is to analyze whether changes had occurred in key aspects of governance arrangements in both national and private universities in Japan from 1992 to 2017. This study focuses on the changing relationships between national universities and the central government and the internal governance and management style at institutional level, due to the application of new public management theory and market mechanisms to universities in Japan. The main findings show: (1) the changing trends of governance arrangements in Japanese universities did not seem to be more managerially-oriented and centralized in general between 1992 and 2017; (2) actual changes did not occur in some aspects of governance arrangements in Japanese universities; (3) changes in governance arrangements in private universities present a sharp contrast to those occurring in national universities. This research has important implications that the current governance patterns in Japanese universities should be improved, and top administrators should provide more competent leadership.

Holding Back the Tide.

Holding Back the Tide.

КОРПОРАТИВНА КУЛЬТУРА ТА МЕТАМОРФОЗИ УПРАВЛІННЯ КОРПОРАТИВНОЮ ЕТИКОЮ

he behavior and level of competence of members of the organization in any situation of its activities. It is determined that the modeling of the behavior of employees of the organization depends on their interactions and oppositions, on the degree of merging into general organizational behavior. It is noted that in order to achieve the level of competitiveness in the world economy, domestic enterprises should transform professional environments into highly organized communities with progressive value systems, productive activities that can provide conditions for becoming a person who competently solves their own professional problems and civic behavior. It is substantiated that organizational behavior is the behavior of employees united in certain management processes, which have their own cycles, rhythms, pace, structure of relations, organizational framework and culture. These processes, on the one hand, are guided by the efforts of leaders of all ranks, depend on their management culture, and on the other - are implemented in the behavior of direct employees of the organization. Organizational behavior is formed at the intersection of two main organizational forces: subordinate (subordination of employees «from top to bottom») and coordination (coordination of the interests of units). The optimal ratio of subordination and coordination forces in time and space and determine the organizational management system, organizational culture. Organizational behavior of employees is psychologically manifested primarily in their attitude to the organization in which they work. The attitude of the top administration towards its employees is the initial reason for this or that behavior. It is determined that the level of corporate culture forms the image of the enterprise. Summarizing the existing definitions of corporate culture, its interpretation is proposed - it is mastered and used by members of the organization values that determine their behavior; social climate in the organization and the dominant system of values and behaviors in the enterprise. It has been proven that the head of an organization or institution, at any stage of its development, can manage organizational behavior by modifying or adjusting it through his culture in two ways: the leader inspires staff and implements his fundamental beliefs and values, and the leader pays attention. details of the daily life of the team, controls the process of implementing the rules approved by the company. It is noted that moral and ethical values are a component of corporate culture and are a legacy of national culture. Positive corporate ethics can be created in an effort to achieve a balance between positive and negative behaviors of persons working in the enterprise and indirectly involved in its activities.