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Why workers disengage? Factors from “Head” or “Heart” to be tagged on?

Oil palm plantations are decisively situated in the various regions of Malaysia where the climatic conditions are appropriate for planting oil palm. One cannot compare the work environment of such plantations with normal office settings.The workers in those plantations are working in remote location...

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Main Authors: Govindarajo, Normala S, Kumar M., Dileep, Sri Ramulu, Subrahmanium
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Language:English
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/14716/1/RG.pdf
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http://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v10n17p108
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spelling my.uum.repo.147162016-04-18T00:48:32Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/14716/ Why workers disengage? Factors from “Head” or “Heart” to be tagged on? Govindarajo, Normala S Kumar M., Dileep Sri Ramulu, Subrahmanium HD28 Management. Industrial Management Oil palm plantations are decisively situated in the various regions of Malaysia where the climatic conditions are appropriate for planting oil palm. One cannot compare the work environment of such plantations with normal office settings.The workers in those plantations are working in remote locations, totally cut off from the other part of the world. Majority workers are from Indonesia, Philippines like low income countries.The work environment is physically demanding and challenging to the workers due to many factors. An exploratory study has conducted on employee disengagement in the oil palm plantations in the Sabah region of Malaysia.The study has taken up employee disengagement factors due to the lack of interest among the local people to engage themselves in the oil palm plantations work and the plantation industry in Malaysia is facing an acute labor shortage to carry forwards the oil palm business.The study follows, field visits, interviews with the workers, focus group discussions and specifically Delphi.The findings supported to identify the 7 factors coming under the theme employee disengagement as Wage and Welfare, Work Environment, Lack of Safety and security, Poor Organizational Support, Rigid Rules and regulations, and Lack of individual motivation.The study paves better insight to lead this qualitative research in an organized quantitative research. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/14716/1/RG.pdf Govindarajo, Normala S and Kumar M., Dileep and Sri Ramulu, Subrahmanium (2014) Why workers disengage? Factors from “Head” or “Heart” to be tagged on? Asian Social Science, 10 (17). pp. 108-119. ISSN 1911-2017 http://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v10n17p108 doi:10.5539/ass.v10n17p108
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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Govindarajo, Normala S
Kumar M., Dileep
Sri Ramulu, Subrahmanium
Why workers disengage? Factors from “Head” or “Heart” to be tagged on?
description Oil palm plantations are decisively situated in the various regions of Malaysia where the climatic conditions are appropriate for planting oil palm. One cannot compare the work environment of such plantations with normal office settings.The workers in those plantations are working in remote locations, totally cut off from the other part of the world. Majority workers are from Indonesia, Philippines like low income countries.The work environment is physically demanding and challenging to the workers due to many factors. An exploratory study has conducted on employee disengagement in the oil palm plantations in the Sabah region of Malaysia.The study has taken up employee disengagement factors due to the lack of interest among the local people to engage themselves in the oil palm plantations work and the plantation industry in Malaysia is facing an acute labor shortage to carry forwards the oil palm business.The study follows, field visits, interviews with the workers, focus group discussions and specifically Delphi.The findings supported to identify the 7 factors coming under the theme employee disengagement as Wage and Welfare, Work Environment, Lack of Safety and security, Poor Organizational Support, Rigid Rules and regulations, and Lack of individual motivation.The study paves better insight to lead this qualitative research in an organized quantitative research.
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author Govindarajo, Normala S
Kumar M., Dileep
Sri Ramulu, Subrahmanium
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title Why workers disengage? Factors from “Head” or “Heart” to be tagged on?
title_short Why workers disengage? Factors from “Head” or “Heart” to be tagged on?
title_full Why workers disengage? Factors from “Head” or “Heart” to be tagged on?
title_fullStr Why workers disengage? Factors from “Head” or “Heart” to be tagged on?
title_full_unstemmed Why workers disengage? Factors from “Head” or “Heart” to be tagged on?
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publisher Canadian Center of Science and Education
publishDate 2014
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/14716/1/RG.pdf
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http://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v10n17p108
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