Rosmini Omar

This article presents a dataset on workplace bullying among 6,973 Malaysian public sector employees, gathered via the 22-item Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R). A 59-respondent pilot study demonstrated excellent instrument reliability, yielding a Cronbach's alpha of 0.901. The dataset encompasses diverse demographic variables including gender, age, marital status, service group, and department. It structures negative behaviors into three core dimensions: work-related, person-related, and physically intimidating bullying. Offering high reuse potential for occupational psychology and social sciences both in private and public sector, this dataset enables researchers to perform advanced statistical analyses like structural equation modeling to evaluate demographic vulnerabilities. Policymakers, human resource professionals, and health practitioners can utilize these baseline metrics to map bullying distribution across departments, ultimately guiding the creation of targeted interventions and prevention frameworks in private or public facilities.

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the relationships between customer orientation, competitive orientation, inter-functional coordination, organizational ambidexterity, and business performance, also exploring the mediating role of organizational ambidexterity by employing strategic orientation and resource-based view theory. Methodology/Design/Approach – A total of 288 hotel owners/managers participated in the present study. Structural equation modeling (partial least squares) via SmartPLS was applied to test the model of the present study. Findings – The findings indicate that customer orientation, competitive orientation, and inter-functional coordination significantly impact organization ambidexterity and business performance. This study can also confirm the mediating role of organizational ambidexterity between customer orientation, competitive orientation, inter-functional coordination, and business performance. This research shows that customer orientation, competitive orientation, and inter-functional coordination may be essential resources for improving hotel firms’ results. Originality of the research – The present paper analyzes relationships between variables not previously investigated in a single model, including customer orientation, competitive orientation, inter-functional coordination, organizational ambidexterity, and business performance.

Purpose: Governments can influence entrepreneurial growth through public policy. This paper aims to present critical aspects of entrepreneurship policy design for Syrian refugees in Turkey and evaluate if current policies are effective for Syrian refugees in Istanbul.Design/methodology/approach: The study adopts an explorative phenomenological approach, contextualized within the entrepreneurial behavior literature. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with fifteen Syrian entrepreneurs residing in Istanbul.Findings: The results show that Syrian refugees were “pushed” to start new companies. Moreover, the findings suggest that Syrian entrepreneurs could exploit better business opportunities such as targeting international markets or finding competent partners.Research limitations/implications: The article offers several practical and social contributions by highlighting how the entrepreneurial behavior of Syrian refugees is driven by their migration or business experiences.Practical implications: Policymakers in Turkey need to acknowledge how their entrepreneurial policies regarding innovation and internationalization affect the business success rate among Syrian refugees. In this regard, the Turkish government should adopt new measures that provide Syrian refugees more business flexibility. These policies may include easy access to the Turkish financial system or fewer regulations to obtain work permits. This will encourage refugees to join the formal economy and contribute to the Turkish labor market.Originality/value: This article adds to the expanding body of knowledge on refugee entrepreneurship by emphasizing the link between refugees' personal experiences and starting new ventures. It also highlights how government policy can be strategically utilized to increase entrepreneurship among Syrian refugees in Turkey.

Zhong-Yong thinking is seen as an indigenous concept that best fits the Chinese context and guides people’s actions and decisions. However, its influence on business and management remains unclear and less studied, with little understanding of both theoretical and practical lenses. This paper synthesizes 41 articles by systematic review and employs the TCCM framework (theory, context, characteristics, and methodology) to evaluate research on the role of Zhong-Yong thinking in business and management. It also distinguishes between studies using Zhong-Yong thinking as a moderating variable and as an independent variable. The study develops two conceptual frameworks as the basis for future research to explore Zhong-Yong thinking and ten related themes.

The intergenerational transmission of an occupation between two generations of frontline workers in Chinese factories shows a copy–paste phenomenon, whereby a new generation of workers not only undertakes the same work as their parents but also remains at the same level of technical ability. This phenomenon runs contrary to the literature on the intergenerational transmission of occupations and is unsuitable for China’s national conditions. More importantly, it restricts the sustainable development of the manufacturing industry in China. This study used a grounded theory approach to interview 30 workers to identify and analyze the factors and influences that created this new generation. The results show that the workers’ drawing of comparisons between and within generations not only limits their technical skills but also affects subsequent generations of workers through the intergenerational transmission of occupation. We draw on our findings to discuss the reasons for and impacts of these comparisons and make suggestions for future research.

This study uses the grounded theory approach to explore factory workers to factory worker interaction (FWI) in the context of Chinese factories and proposes a model of FWI in the workplace. Human interaction in the workplace is indispensable in most sectors. Compared with large-scale factories, China’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) factories lack capital resources and technological advancement, and sustainably managing factory workers is essential for the development of Chinese SME factories. However, previous studies have ignored FWI in Chinese factories. The model developed in this study considers the types, driving factors, and influential outcomes of FWI. The main factors affecting FWI are the individual characteristics of the workplace and external environmental factors and, among types of FWI, information sharing is the most dominant and prevailing. The managers’ management style and the emotional state of factory workers are playing moderating roles in FWI. Results show that factory managers can take advantage of the positive impacts of FWI to improve the efficiency of factory workers and avoid its negative effects to achieve sustainable development of the factory. Theoretical and managerial implications are provided.

Purpose: Ethnic food is a pivotal polysemic artifact, yet commonly studied based on experience. This leaves an eclipse in understanding its overall significance and implications. The purpose of this paper is to explore the interactions of experience, intimacy and embodiment from the lens of alternative tourism and Asia as a destination image.Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted four focus group that include Asians who take experiential learning trips and spiritual journeys across Asia-Pacific.Findings: Alternative tourists promote the growth of ethnic foodies who value impact which they determine as quality food-scape, longitudinal caring interactions with and the constant assurance of consuming food which are safe and healthy to their physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.Research limitations/implications: Although our research does not employ any quantitative technique and devoid of inferential analysis, the rich qualitative data offer insights for further work that benefit ethnic food industry.Practical implications: Industry and policy makers are encouraged to generate contextual solutions for management of the ethnic food industry. Ethnic food consumption may flourish if the industry leads its growth through a post-modernist approach.Social implications: A broad perspective in growing the frontiers of ethnic food tourism beyond the landscape of an economic or consumerism-dominated approach would benefit the cross-mobility of quality talents and skills as this fosters cross-cultural literacy.Originality/value: The authors develop the Ethnic Foodies Perspective-Ethnic Food Destination Image Matrix as a pathway to further motivate knowledge cross-fertilization in ethnic food tourism studies and leverage on the transdisciplinary science, innovation, socio- and sensuous geographic arena. A constellation of ethnic food innovation should link the economic side of exotic differentiation and heritage with food processing, safety and traceability.

How has Basel III (Bank for International Settlements), regarding the computation, measurement, and management of the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR), vitalized the Islamic banking sector in emerging economies? Vice versa, what is the Islamic banking sector’s capacity to respond in embracing Basel III? This study aims to review the current issues faced by a bank as it discusses the current regulatory guidelines and operational challenges in implementing the system. Based on the implementation of LCR preliminary secondary data of Malaysian banks between 2010 and 2016, this study finds that the readiness of LCR system implementation in the Islamic banking industry is currently low because LCR is still relatively new for all financial institutions and vendors. There is a huge gap between the present system infrastructure of the banks and the LCR model requirements as defined by BNM (Bank Negara Malaysia) under Basel III. Nevertheless, this finding opens new horizons of understanding and practically offers further investigations for the whole banking sector in Malaysia. Thus, policy makers, regulators, and industry players should utilize a unique framework for Islamic banks when strategizing liquidity risk management.

The purpose of this study is to explore factors that reinforce or obstruct business schools in Pakistan to develop managerial knowledge, skills and work-based learning experiences of MBA students. The study is prompted by growing debates about insufficiencies in business schools to prepare MBA graduates based on managerial capital needs in the regional markets. To understand the reasons of insufficiencies from business school’s viewpoint, this study employs qualitative interviews to explore factors that reinforce or obstruct business schools. Deans, faculty members and administrators of five different business schools in Hyderabad, Pakistan participated in this study. Responses of the participants are transcribed into verbatim reports and description of findings is structured in SWOT analysis format. Findings show sixteen different factors, comprising of four strengths, seven weaknesses, three opportunities, and two threats. There are more number of weaknesses of business schools to develop MBA students. However, business schools have some strengths and opportunities which they may utilize and improve. Radical changes would strive from the higher education authority. Conceptual framework presented in this study recommends that higher education authority may lead the change, cooperate between business schools and stakeholders, and support business schools to develop future managers and leaders through MBA programs. 影响工商 管理 硕士MBA学生管理人才培养的因素：巴基斯坦商学院的考虑 摘要 在培养工商管理硕士（MBA）学生的管理知识、技能和工作相关的学习经验时，巴基斯坦商学院常面临不同的促进或阻碍因素，本文将就此进行探索。目前商学院培育的MBA学生无法满足区域市场中管理资本的需求，相关讨论不断升温。受此启发，研究采取定性访谈的方式，探索促进或阻碍商学院教育培养的因素，进一步从商学院的角度理解管理人员供给不足的原因。来自巴基斯坦海得拉巴地区五所商学院的院长、教职员工和行政人员参与了此次研究。访谈内容以逐字逐句的形式转换为文本报告，并以强弱危机分析模型（SWOT）的形式加以总结。研究共发现十六类不同因素，包括四项优势、七项劣势、三项机会和两项威胁因素。 商学院培育MBA学生的劣势相对较多，然而同时也拥有一些优势和机会，可善加利用。希冀通过高等教育权威部门的努力产生根本变革。文中的概念性框架建议高等教育权威部门引领变革，在商学院和不同利益相关者间进行合作，以支持商学院通过MBA项目培养未来的管理人员和领导者。 关键词：管理人员开发，MBA，商学院，强弱危机分析模型