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Work attitude among Malaysian academicians in the public Universities: a social network analysis

This study dealt with a social network analysis approach to comprehend the work attitude amongst academicians in the Malaysian public universities. This work attitude presented the psychological attachment between the employee and the organization. The organizational commitment and workplace spiritu...

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Main Authors: Mohd. Asrah, Norhaidah, Djauhari, Maman Abdurachman, Suleiman, Ebi Shahrin
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Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014
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HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/63248/
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v8n5p9
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spelling my.utm.632482017-06-19T03:52:33Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/63248/ Work attitude among Malaysian academicians in the public Universities: a social network analysis Mohd. Asrah, Norhaidah Djauhari, Maman Abdurachman Suleiman, Ebi Shahrin HD Industries. Land use. Labor This study dealt with a social network analysis approach to comprehend the work attitude amongst academicians in the Malaysian public universities. This work attitude presented the psychological attachment between the employee and the organization. The organizational commitment and workplace spirituality amongst the academicians were highlighted here. A total of 40 factors were found to represent four groups of workplace spirituality and organizational commitment. The similarity amongst the factors was measured with two different kinds of associations. The best measure of association, which was the Tschuprow's measure of association, showed better results than the other measure in measuring the correlation amongst the factors. The connections and relationships amongst the factors were studied by using minimum spanning trees (MST). The interpretation of the MST was conducted by using the overall centrality measure. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014 Article PeerReviewed Mohd. Asrah, Norhaidah and Djauhari, Maman Abdurachman and Suleiman, Ebi Shahrin (2014) Work attitude among Malaysian academicians in the public Universities: a social network analysis. Modern Applied Science, 8 (5). pp. 9-18. ISSN 1913-1844 http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v8n5p9 DOI :10.5539/mas.v8n5p9
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topic HD Industries. Land use. Labor
spellingShingle HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Mohd. Asrah, Norhaidah
Djauhari, Maman Abdurachman
Suleiman, Ebi Shahrin
Work attitude among Malaysian academicians in the public Universities: a social network analysis
description This study dealt with a social network analysis approach to comprehend the work attitude amongst academicians in the Malaysian public universities. This work attitude presented the psychological attachment between the employee and the organization. The organizational commitment and workplace spirituality amongst the academicians were highlighted here. A total of 40 factors were found to represent four groups of workplace spirituality and organizational commitment. The similarity amongst the factors was measured with two different kinds of associations. The best measure of association, which was the Tschuprow's measure of association, showed better results than the other measure in measuring the correlation amongst the factors. The connections and relationships amongst the factors were studied by using minimum spanning trees (MST). The interpretation of the MST was conducted by using the overall centrality measure.
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author Mohd. Asrah, Norhaidah
Djauhari, Maman Abdurachman
Suleiman, Ebi Shahrin
author_facet Mohd. Asrah, Norhaidah
Djauhari, Maman Abdurachman
Suleiman, Ebi Shahrin
author_sort Mohd. Asrah, Norhaidah
title Work attitude among Malaysian academicians in the public Universities: a social network analysis
title_short Work attitude among Malaysian academicians in the public Universities: a social network analysis
title_full Work attitude among Malaysian academicians in the public Universities: a social network analysis
title_fullStr Work attitude among Malaysian academicians in the public Universities: a social network analysis
title_full_unstemmed Work attitude among Malaysian academicians in the public Universities: a social network analysis
title_sort work attitude among malaysian academicians in the public universities: a social network analysis
publisher Canadian Center of Science and Education
publishDate 2014
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/63248/
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v8n5p9
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