Administrative discretion and representative bureaucracy: Linking descriptive representation to substantive representation by Mohamed, Ahmad Martadha

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Leadership in the public sector: Examining women and minority groups in the Malaysian civil service by Mohamed, Ahmad Martadha

“…However, ensuring a bureaucracy that mirrors the population it serves remains a daunting task. …”
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Job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intention to leave: A study on visiting lecturers in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) by Abu-Jarad, Ismael, Al-Qolaq, Ammar, Nibkbin, David

“…However, the interviewees showed some concern about the working culture (the absence of integration between local staff and visiting lecturers) and bureaucracy (time wasted to get things done). This study could serve as a reminder to UUM top management that taking care of the working culture and bureaucracy could contribute to more commitment and less turnover intention.It is worth mentioning that satisfying foreign lecturers who came from different cultures and who have different expectations could be a point of concern to UUM top management.It is important to merge the visiting lecturers into the system and make them feel they are part of the family so that they could be more committed and hence deliver more.…”
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Political continuity and apolitical changes: A retrogressive study of political participation in Pakistani Punjab by Awan, Sajid

“…An apolitical nexus of praetorian class, civil bureaucracy and feudal clout has never let the political continuity lost even for a single term with an exception of the last one which too could survive only under the auspices of the same nexus.It is generally believed that they never let the process of political participation increase a certain level.Central argument of the present paper is quite opposite.…”
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“Work With Me, Not For Me”: Malaysia Under Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (2003-2009)” / Sivamurugan Pandian...[et al.] by Pandian, Sivamurugan, Omar, Rusdi, Mohd Sani, Mohd Azizuddin

“…The Prime Minister is an important autonomous actor, a leader of the government party who also manages public bureaucracy and utmost, Abdullah is seen as the leader of the people. …”
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The role and the management of research at the university with reference to the Universiti Pertanian Malaysia. by Abdul Rahman, Omar

“…Research management should, therefore, be directed towards increasing the efficiency and productivity of the researcher, and the maintenance of an environment optimal for the need of the researcher and not of bureaucracy. The needs of research should not, however, be provided for at the expense of the teaching responsibility. …”
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Corruption and poor governance: African perspective by Saidu, Badamasi, Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah

“…The development procedure of many African countries is so far confounded with a lot of issues because of prevalent corruption including state managers and on-screen characters in the bureaucracy.Corruption practices have pervaded and crushed practically many part of African culture to the degree that numerous individual partners have associated it to be part of social norms and custom in the continent.On the off chance that left unchecked, corrupt practices will keep on posing genuine risk to the administration of law and justice and disintegrate the very establishment of good governance despite declining in the GDP/ GNP and the general condition of instability the continent is confronting as of now.This article calls attention that corruption practices, notwithstanding the late re-marking in the economy of many countries in the continent as quickest developing one, had rendered the procedure of advancement frail and non-feasible, with great consequences.…”
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Crowdfunding as a Financing Option for Small Contractors by Omar, Ropidah, Mat Saat, Rafeah

“…The results show that bureaucracy is one of the challenges for small contractors to obtain funding from financial institutions. …”
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University-Industry Collaboration: Barriers to Commercialization by Mohd Ghazali, Maarof, Sorooshian, Shahryar, Syed Radzi, Rahamaddulla

“…Among the barriers identified were products are not market driven, bureaucracy, insufficient experience on applied research, lack of proper SOP, unattractive reward system, lack of information on potential collaboration opportunities and Intellectual Property (IP) issues.…”
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Malaysian Democratic Dilemmas in the Era of Najib Razak by Sopi, Saiyid Radzuwan Syed, Hamid, Ahmad Fauzi Abdul

“…The focus of this study is to find out why Najib is willing to exploit state institutions such as the bureaucracy - police departments, anti-corruption agency, the Attorney-General’s office, and cooperate with cabinet members to ensure that he perpetually clings to power. …”
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Institutions and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Malaysia: Empirical evidence using ARDL model by Abdul Karim, Zulkefly, Shah Zaidi, Mohd Azlan, Ismail, Mohd Adib, Abdul Karim, Bakri

“…Using bounds testing approach (ARDL model), the empirical findings reveal that there exists a long run relationship among FDI and the institution variables.Specifically, several institution variables namely government stability, bureaucracy, and corruption are found to play prominent roles in influencing the inflow of FDI. …”
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Penyertaan komuniti dalam bidang keusahawanan luar bandar. Kajian di Daerah Kubang Pasu, Kedah by Talib, Azlizan, Jusoh, Hamzah

“…Community’s participation plays a significant role in determining the success of a development program.In the context of the entrepreneurship, previous studies have been able to sample the evidence of the scarcity of this participation.Factors like the difficulty of accepting change, the idiosyncrasies of the bureaucracy, financial allocation issues, the shortage of training and courses, political frictions, the lack of response and support from the rural people and the like, are seen to leave an impact in influencing this public participation.In relation to this, research has been done to identify the level of participation in the area of study, and analyse the influencing factors for the participation in the area as to be able to obtain the actual, detailed conditions regarding the issue being examined. …”
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Poverty reduction strategy in Indonesia by Masduki,

“…Some things are worth paying attention to is a matter of addressing poverty linkages in accordance with the concept of cultural context, poverty is not just the size of the monetary aspects (income) alone, the involvement of the poor to define and decide the programs that fit their needs, and the failure of bureaucracy to lead and run well of anti-poverty programs. …”
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Establishing a strategic framework of green procurement for the malaysian construction industry / Mohd Sallehuddin Mat Noor and Fadzil Hassan by Mohd Sallehuddin, Mat Noor, Fadzil, Hassan

“…Megatrend in the global scale had influenced it through risk management, sustaining profitability, sustaining corporate social responsibility and growing bureaucracy, green procurement is believed to be the solution to the construction industry to grow steadily thus contributes to the nation’s economic and social growth. …”
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Ensuring participatory based decision-making practice in higher education through E-management: a faculty initiative by Hashim, F., Alam, G.M., Siraj, Saedah

“…Discussion is first focused on the bureaucracy and participatory models of decision making, then moves on to the research context, description of QuESt and discussion of the features and functions of the system. …”

The alternative of green open space management in Jakarta City, Indonesia by Hakim, Rustam

“…It is also indicated by problems lingered around regulation of law, bureaucracy and bureaucrat agent. The core of the main problems in the policy of management formulation of urban green open space in Jakarta is the lack of managements" of urban green open space of DKI Jakarta. …”
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GIS in development control process: the case of development control system for City Hall of Kuala Lumpur by Johar, Foziah, Yaakup, Ahris, Che'Man, Noordini, Sulaiman, Susilawati

“…Computerization of crucial procedures help to cut cost and time consumed apart from minimizing the process of bureaucracy throughout the development control process. …”
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GIS in development control process: The case of development control system for City Hall of Kuala Lumpur by Che'Man, Noordini, Yaakup, Ahris, Johar, Foziah

“…Computerization of crucial procedures help to cut cost and time consumed apart from minimizing the process of bureaucracy throughout the development control process. …”
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The Malay political economy - A brief historical review by Omar, Affifudin

“…The thesis that Malay bureaucracy’s decadence being really a major factor in Malay political and economic demise, constitute the central dimension of this analysis.…”
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Delivering convenient service and better zakat distribution management through UiTM Pulau Pinang eZakat system / Naemah Abdul Wahab … [et al.] by Abdul Wahab, Naemah

“…The previous procedures of zakat application are inefficient since the students had to fill up manual forms and going through bureaucracies before being called up for the interview session. …”
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