Asean Journal of Automotive Technology

EMPLOYEE CHARACTERISTICS AND JOB SATISFACTION: THE INFLUENCE OF DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND STRESS IN A COMPOSITE AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING COMPANY

2022-04-27T02:08:37+00:00

Job satisfaction comes from interacting with coworkers, making an effort to learn, and ultimately, doing the right thing although no one is looking. Managers have a common and complex issue of improving staff’s job satisfaction. The staff’s positive reaction was realised from the work outcomes and their attitude. Job satisfaction also is a mix of good and negative opinions that employees experience about their jobs. Job satisfaction is defined as a worker’s sense of accomplishment, and success on the job is commonly considered closely related to productivity and personal quality of life. Job satisfaction explained the logic is that a satisfied employee is a happy employee, and a happy employee is a successful and productive employee who will contribute to the employer’s success by delivering superior quality results within the time limit and contributing to increased profits. This research study proposed to be conducted in one of aerospace company located in Malaysia which had 2,224 employees. Many researchers found that job satisfaction has a powerful influence on worker motivation. Worker motivation has an impact on productivity and, therefore, on commercial organisations’ success. Employee well-being and characteristic are essential factors to measure and see the influence and relationship against job satisfaction. SPSS will be a quantitative statistical tool in measuring the significance between employee characteristics and job satisfaction.

THE EFFECT OF VIRTUAL WORKING TEAM ON JOB PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN MALAYSIA

2022-04-27T02:16:36+00:00

Job performance is one of most businesses’ measures to ensure that their business is sustainable, lucrative, and expandable. It is also an important level indicator in Malaysia aerospace manufacturing industry to maintain competitiveness in the global market. By the end of 2019, when a pandemic had hit the world, the situation became more challenging where the government-imposed movement controls to prevent the disease from spreading. This situation led most aerospace manufacturing companies to explore alternative measures to maintain their business operations, including introducing work from home as a virtual working team for their indirect workers. As this strategy just introduced in Malaysia aerospace manufacturing sector, the concern arises as to the extent of its impact on their job performance. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence factors in the virtual working team environment and its relationship to job performance. This study uses a quantitative causal method for analyzing the effect and relevance of independent variables on dependent variables. The scope is limited to the Malaysian aerospace manufacturing sector and its employees when dealing with global suppliers and customers. The study focuses on the employees who have worked in virtual communicate during the pandemic from the year 2020 to 2021. Therefore, the findings hope to provide valuable insights to Malaysian manufacturing organizations in effectively managing their virtual working team and enhancing their employees' job performance.

DOWNSIZING STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE OF AEROSTRUCTURE MANUFACTURER IN MALAYSIA: THE COVID - 19 ERA PERSPECTIVE

2022-04-27T02:24:56+00:00

This work seeks to establish the relationship between downsizing strategies and organizational resilience of Aerostructure Manufacturer in Malaysia known as Company CAC during pandemic COVID-19 perspective. This study commenced during the COVID-19 pandemic which made the study relevant to the present times. More specifically, this study aims to identify the downsizing strategy and the effectiveness for the organization to remain resilience. The quantitative data are used as main source of analysis and supporting by secondary source such as publish company annual report and articles from media. SPSS method is used to analyze data gathered from a survey of executives and higher are part of the respondent. This paper will present an effective tools for downsizing strategy in businesses and how it affect an organizational resilience. It is will be an additional data and knowledge for the company about dealing with distress problems and how to gets through it to the corporate turnaround stage.

THE EFFECT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY: THE STUDY OF AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING COMPANY IN MALAYSIA

2022-04-27T02:33:17+00:00

The purpose of this research project is to investigate the effects of the characteristics of a transformational leadership trait on organizational agility in one of the aerospace manufacturing companies in Malaysia. The method of the present study was descriptive. The population of this research included the management of the said company from the bottom to the top, which included the head of section, head of department and head of division. The total number of 120 headcount is considered in this research. The 120 headcount represents 95% of the population of the management group in the mentioned company. The expectation is that transformational leadership characteristics will have an effect on organizational agility. Only two of the transformational leadership characteristics are considered in the research project, which are idealized influence and inspirational motivation. This research will benefit both administrative and management, whereby senior management needs to emphasize and practice the transformational leadership dimensions while planning the policies for strategic implementation.

FACTORS OF CONSUMERS’ PURCHASE INTENTION TOWARDS HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2022-04-27T02:43:30+00:00

Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit across the globe, people become more aware about health and hygiene conditions. People are advised to wear proper masks and pay extra attention to each owns hygienic upkeep. Hand sanitation has become an alternative to handwashing due to its convenience and effectivity. This paper studies the effects of Subjective Norms on consumers’ Purchase Intention toward hand sanitizer in Malaysian setting. From a comprehensive literature study, this paper provides a general concept and process execution of the survey. Data collection involves a set of online questionnaire distribution across Malaysian consumers. Data analysis utilizes Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software using statistical techniques such as ANOVA. This paper is an approach beneficial to the medical industry in order to produce high quality products.

THE IMPLICATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE IN CHANGE MANAGEMENT

2022-04-27T04:42:04+00:00

This study explores the implication of organizational culture and leadership framework implementation on companies' company performance at business performance, Composite Technology Research Technology (CTRM) upon change management. This study intends to solve the problem in the behavior of executives that can have negative consequences on the motivation or the culture of employees and the long-term business development of the CTRM that led to organizational changes since DRB-HICOM take over the shareholder from the Ministry of Finance 7 years ago. As a result of negative leadership is failing to inspire employees to give the best results and fulfill their potential. To achieve better results, employees at every level have to be committed to the CTRM and achieve financial and otherwise goals. Without a culture that supports and encourages managers and financial objectives are missed.

Nevertheless, it is not surprising that negative leadership can lead to higher employee turnover. Employees are not motivated, and culturally poor combustion starts looking for another job. The CTRM is struggling to lose the high performance and experienced workers and must be replaced by new employees. Understanding how CTRM beneficiaries live when new change begins, the specificity of their culture and leadership, and what struggles they will face in their day-to-day work not only serves to improve program design but also serves to explain the potential negatives that may result from the intervention or exacerbated when negative leadership manages regardless of new policy factors. Defining those possibilities in advance and planning for any possibilities can help ensure they don't occur or, if actual, minimize the effects. Demonstrating commitment to this area can also help build credibility with managers and employees. Based on quantitative data collected by spreading the culture and leadership surveys readiness to affect a more prominent audience leadership of Executive and especially CTRM defined above. This research is to gather more data on the overview of the CTRM’s business performance, including the acquisition workforce turnover, the statement of comprehensive income (SOCI), and growth trends of business marketing. Then, develop a complete picture of the readiness of the organization to compare this data with a successful history with similar size and scope, and change management best practices, to make recommendations for change management strategy and used to study the effect of leadership and change management strategy to acceptance by individual cultural change

DEVELOPMENT OF MENTORING MODEL FOR LEADERSHIP IN YYZ COMPANY BASED ON MENTORING PROGRAM IN COMPOSITES TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH MALAYSIA (CTRM)

2022-04-27T05:42:38+00:00

This study is to identify affected components in order to develop mentoring model for leadership in YYZ Company based on mentoring program in Composites Technology Research Malaysia (CTRM). Even though there a lot of research and study in mentoring but lack of research in mentoring implementation in CTRM since most of the previous research have been conducted and focus on school’s students, teachers, and senior management. Mentoring have been a common tool to use in developing leadership in organization and based on YYZ Company condition, they are facing leadership crisis and need a new leadership development program to improve or enhance their employee’s leadership. Therefore, the paper studies on the related literature and components influenced development of mentoring model also to review on the additional component based on mentoring program in CTRM in order to develop mentoring model.