Determinants of organizational practices and research culture for the enhancement of research performance in Malaysian universities

Research performance is crucial to be monitored and maintained by the universities to make sure the output of research will meet the research output. Publication is one of the main research output to be measure to the research performance even though not all of the universities in Malaysia accomplis...

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Main Authors: Esam, Asrizam, Ab Rahman, Suhaimi, Zawawi, Dahlia, Sazili, Awis Qurni, Tugiran, Nik Rosniwati Ismailyusnita, Kamarudin, Yushaida Yusofnorliyana
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Language:English
Published: JARSSH 2019
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/76422/1/Determinants%20of%20organizational%20practices%20and%20research%20culture%20for%20the%20enhancement%20of%20research%20performance%20in%20Malaysian%20universities.pdf
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author Esam, Asrizam
Ab Rahman, Suhaimi
Zawawi, Dahlia
Sazili, Awis Qurni
Tugiran, Nik Rosniwati Ismailyusnita
Kamarudin, Yushaida Yusofnorliyana
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Ab Rahman, Suhaimi
Zawawi, Dahlia
Sazili, Awis Qurni
Tugiran, Nik Rosniwati Ismailyusnita
Kamarudin, Yushaida Yusofnorliyana
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description Research performance is crucial to be monitored and maintained by the universities to make sure the output of research will meet the research output. Publication is one of the main research output to be measure to the research performance even though not all of the universities in Malaysia accomplish in publishing journals. Why there is dissimilar on every university researchers in research performance? This study explores the similarities and differences of organizational practices and research culture among academic staff that influence the research performance in Malaysia public university, mainly via a case study of Universiti Putra Malaysia, one of the best Research University particularly in agriculture fields in Malaysia. Qualitative approach was taken where 40 academic staff in science and technology groups and social science, art and humanities groups were interviewed through the focus group discussion. Views and experience from the researchers is crucial to determine their research performance factors. This study shows similarity of 5 possible tangible and 8 intangible factors that contribute to research performance emerging among the academic staff including one intangible factors as a new factors that will have an impact to the research performance. All the factors can be indicator as a benchmarking to others university especially new age of university in Malaysia. Primarily, it extends the literature, by providing further understanding on the issues of organizational practices and research culture on the Malaysian public universities.
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spelling upm.eprints-764222019-12-10T01:34:56Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/76422/ Determinants of organizational practices and research culture for the enhancement of research performance in Malaysian universities Esam, Asrizam Ab Rahman, Suhaimi Zawawi, Dahlia Sazili, Awis Qurni Tugiran, Nik Rosniwati Ismailyusnita Kamarudin, Yushaida Yusofnorliyana Research performance is crucial to be monitored and maintained by the universities to make sure the output of research will meet the research output. Publication is one of the main research output to be measure to the research performance even though not all of the universities in Malaysia accomplish in publishing journals. Why there is dissimilar on every university researchers in research performance? This study explores the similarities and differences of organizational practices and research culture among academic staff that influence the research performance in Malaysia public university, mainly via a case study of Universiti Putra Malaysia, one of the best Research University particularly in agriculture fields in Malaysia. Qualitative approach was taken where 40 academic staff in science and technology groups and social science, art and humanities groups were interviewed through the focus group discussion. Views and experience from the researchers is crucial to determine their research performance factors. This study shows similarity of 5 possible tangible and 8 intangible factors that contribute to research performance emerging among the academic staff including one intangible factors as a new factors that will have an impact to the research performance. All the factors can be indicator as a benchmarking to others university especially new age of university in Malaysia. Primarily, it extends the literature, by providing further understanding on the issues of organizational practices and research culture on the Malaysian public universities. JARSSH 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/76422/1/Determinants%20of%20organizational%20practices%20and%20research%20culture%20for%20the%20enhancement%20of%20research%20performance%20in%20Malaysian%20universities.pdf Esam, Asrizam and Ab Rahman, Suhaimi and Zawawi, Dahlia and Sazili, Awis Qurni and Tugiran, Nik Rosniwati Ismailyusnita and Kamarudin, Yushaida Yusofnorliyana (2019) Determinants of organizational practices and research culture for the enhancement of research performance in Malaysian universities. Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 3 (6). pp. 204-214. ISSN 2597-7040; ESSN: 2579-8480 https://jarssh.com/archive.php#0 10.26500/JARSSH-03-2018-0601
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title Determinants of organizational practices and research culture for the enhancement of research performance in Malaysian universities
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title_fullStr Determinants of organizational practices and research culture for the enhancement of research performance in Malaysian universities
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title_short Determinants of organizational practices and research culture for the enhancement of research performance in Malaysian universities
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