...Antecedents of Green Purchasing Behavior among Malaysian Consumers | | Punitha Sinnappan and Azmawani Abd Rahman | | Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence green purchasing behaviors of Malaysian consumers and observes if the factors affecting green purchasing behavior differ by demographic profile. Respondents in this study were consumers from various age groups, education level, ethnic group, type of occupation and income level. The results shows that the best predictor for green purchasing behavior is environmental attitude followed by perceived environmental responsibility; environmental concern, perceived seriousness of environmental problems, perceived effectiveness of environmental behavior and government’s role. While for demographic variables, only age group is significant in explaining the environmental factors. The result of the research can serve as a guideline for firms to strategize their marketing approaches that caused buying behavior while analyzing the demographic characteristics would give firms better knowledge towards targeting these groups of people. This study also offers practical guidelines to marketers who are planning to target the Malaysian market. The understanding on the changing consumption pattern of Malaysian consumers and the value of attachment, they gave to the environment provides useful insights that are especially pertinent to an improved understanding of green purchasing behavior in the South...
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...Diversity: Scorecard Why Board Diversity Equals Success Alicia Yi Managing Director, Strategic Client Services Korn/Ferry International Women vs. Men’s Tertiary Education * The score above show the proportion of women to every 100 men. ** Source: MasterCard Worldwide Index of Women’s Advancement Asia’s Growth Model is Shifting… MARKET SHIFT ASIA 1.0 (1985 – 2005) THE IMPETUS FOR CHANGE — Reduced Western Consumer Spending — Emerging Consumerism in Asia — Shifting R&D investments — Asia’s drive to innovate — Asia’s need to move up the value chain — Unemployment in the west — Western companies Asianizing — Asian companies globalizing ASIA 2.0 (2006 – 2020) CONSUMER SHIFT MADE IN ASIA MADE FOR ASIA INNOVATION SHIFT THE WORLD’S FACTORY and BACK OFFICE THE WORLD’S LABORATORY and KNOWLEDGE OFFICE JOBS SHIFT CHEAP and PRODUCTIVE WORKFORCE CREATIVE and INNOVATIVE TALENT Asia Advancing - Innovation Tata Nano : the $3,000 car was conceived and developed in India LG LX9500 : the world’s first 3D LED TV Mac 400 : a hand-held cardiogram ($800) developed by GE in India Kaohsiung Stadium : World’s first solar powered stadium – in Taiwan The USB Credit Card : developed by Shinhan Card in Korea Eko Hybrid: World’s first hybrid 2-wheeler ($500) – in Bangalore F1 Night Race : World’s first night race in Singapore Harmony Express: World’s fastest train (394 kmph) in China Four Leadership Styles Leaders most likely...
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...will never know when and what will our competitor do to fight for their business. The competitors are not only the ones that we can see now, it could be our future competitors as well. These are the unforeseen competitive in the hospitality industry. For an example, K3K, OldTown, and paparich are competiting to each other, but suddenly there comes a new company NewTown, and it gives better service, all the others will lose their business. As the F&B industry encourage more competition when the market grow or if its profitable. OldTown is a place that normally medium income customer will dine in. Demographic force: Demography is the study of human populations such as, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and others. Consumers that usually visit to OldTown are usually all ages, which means the generations of baby boomers till generation Z. All the demographics will change over time and he following company must always keep up with them and make sure that they can get the right information on the earliest time. Economic force: The economic environment include the factors that affects the consumers purchasing power and the patterns how they spend their money.It is not enough if we only have consumers, the consumers must have the buying power, or the company will not earn the profit. For an example, an OldTown customer will visit OldTown to have a cup of white coffee before he goes to work. But, if the economic crisis comes, the customer will maybe just...
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...Community, Work & Family, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2003 •^ "^ | ^ Carfax Publishing ' f / V Taylor & Francis Croup Work- and family-related variables, work-family conflict and women's well-being: some observations NORAINI M. NOOR Department of Psychology, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The present study was carried out to test an exploratory model consisting of three sets of variables (demographic, personality and work- and family-related variables) in the prediction of well-being. The model also provided a test of the indirect effect of these variables on well-being, via perceptions of work-family conflict. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were used. In a sample of 147 employed British women with children, the results showed that these three sets of variables had both direct and indirect influence on well-being. Although work-related variables explained the most variance in the prediction of workinterfering-with-family conflict and job satisfaction, personality variables accounted for the most variance in the prediction of family-interfering-with-work conflict. Similarly, in the prediction of distress symptoms, demographic variables accounted for the most variance. The qualitative responses provided by the women complemented these findings. The proposed model appears to provide a better fit of the complex relationships that may exist between the many variables encompassing women's work and family lives than previous ones that have considered...
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...an amusement park in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Founded by Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Jeffrey Cheah in. It was officially opened by the Prime Minister Tun Mahathir bin Mohamad on April 29, 1993. It features rides in both the water park and the adjacent dry park. In late 2008, new parks were added and minor improvements were made to the existing park. The park is home to the world's largest wave pool, measuring impressive 139,800 square feet (13,000 square meters). Now it is obvious which kind the Sunway Lagoon, this is due to their market segmentation. Market segmentation helps marketers define customer needs and wants more precisely. Sunway Lagoon uses geographic, demographic, psychographic segmentation, benefit segmentation and usage rate to locate their target market. Geographic segmentation is a common strategy when you serve customers in a particular area, or when your broad target audience has different preferences based on where they are located. This marketing approach is common for small businesses that serve a wide demographic customer base in a local or regional territory. Geographic segmentation refers to a region of a country or the world, market size, market density, or climate. This is used for the location of Sunway Lagoon which are strategically located in the Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Because of attracting people from city, just need to take a 15-minutes drive from Kuala Lumpur. It also nearly located at a centre of Malaysia, so it give easy for all Malaysians to...
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...important is the concept of “race” for understanding contemporary Malaysia? Introduction The concept of race as defined by Rex and Mason is “an essentially biological concept based on distinctive sets of hereditary phenotypical features that distinguish varieties of mankind” (1986, p. 189). In Malaysia however, race is oftentimes used to mean ‘ethnicity’, which is incorrect as ethnic groups are sub-divisions of a particular racial stock differentiated by history and cultural practices (Rex and Mason, 1986, p. 189). Nevertheless, the concept of race is an important one in understanding how it has shaped the politics and society of Malaysia. In this essay I will explain how Malaysia’s colonial past and affirmative action policies has contributed to the formation of a society divided along racial lines and how that has created racial tensions among the ethnic groups of Malaysia. Malaysia which touts itself as a ‘plural society’ is a country constituted by different race/ethnic groups, the three largest being the Malay, Chinese and Indian groups. As of 2010, the Malaysian population consists of 28.3 million people, with 91.8% Malaysian citizens. The Malaysian citizens are made up of 67.4% bumiputera (translated as ‘son of the soil’, a group composed of predominantly ethnic Malays along with various other indigenous tribes and native groups), 24.6% Chinese, 7.3% Indians and 0.7% Others (Department of Statistics Malaysia, 2010). With so many different ethnic groups within a country...
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...Daryl Loh Zhen Zhe 25903969 tutorial 23 Q1. Company name: Monash University Malaysia (http://www.monash.edu.my/) Monash University is the first foreign university to be established in Malaysia. It is established in 1998 and located in Bandar Sunway. Competitors: * Taylor's University (http://www.taylors.edu.my/en/university/) * The University of Nottingham (http://www.nottingham.edu.my/index.aspx) * Help University (http://www.help.edu.my/) Suppliers: * Sunway Property (Property) (http://www.sunwayproperty.com/pd/) * Sunway Construction Sdn Bhd ( Construction works) (http://www.sunway.com.my/suncon/) * Atlas Vending (M) Sdn Bhd (suplply vending machine) (http://www.atlas-vending.com/) Intermediaries: * GTI Media Sdn Bhd (Marketing services agency, established a brand name doctorjob.com.my which help to advertise Monash Univeristy Malaysia) (http://gtimedia.asia/) * Sureworks Sdn Bhd (Marketing services agency, organise educational fair to help promote Monash University Malaysia) (http://www.sureworks.info/) * IDP Malaysia (Introduce Monash University Malaysia to students as an option) (http://www.idp.com/malaysia/studyabroad) Customer: * People which majority in the category of young adult and adult who seek for tertiary education * International and local students * Undergraduate and postgraduate students Public: * Ministry of Higher Education (government publics) (http://jpt.mohe.gov.my/eng/) * Jeffrey Cheah Foundation...
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...is set at Vietnam and factory too. Our companies have produces so many sport item example basketball, football, badminton and so on. The more of the item we produce is sporting shoe. Except shoe, we also produce clothes, pants, stockings, basketball, racket and so on. Sporting Cloths of Men Basketball Shoe Gym Beg Vietnam is our home country, the main I choosing Vietnam is because of the material to produce our product is more cheaper than other country, second is the money exchange rate of Vietnam is more lower than other country, example Malaysia, US, UK, Singapore and so on. Today, we wanted to introduce a new product. The first country of we aim to sale this product is Malaysia. Because we getting know about have so many Malaysian like sport but their home economy is no allow of them to buy a shoe for sport. So that we create an ideal on produce a beautiful, performance and lower price to design a sporting running shoe. Even are rice family or poor family, they also can enjoy about the delight of sport in mood relax and happy. So that our design team group try hand for research the suit material for doing this ideal. New Product Introduction of EKIN The new product is name SPS I. Our new product is design with two colours and addition our brands logo at beside in one of the shoe. The base of the shoe is with black colour and the body of the...
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...Introduction Q-Q Food Retail Sdn Bhd is selling the Dried Meat product in Malaysia. Brand of this company is called “Oloiya”. It is the first selling dried meat products in Asia. The company total has 30 stores in Nationwide. Q-Q Food Retail Sdn Bhd only had 6 stores are under the company name, and other is the agents. Q-Q Foods Retail Sdn Bhd highest sales in period Chinese New Year. The companies also have other product such as Meat Floss Bread and Local Deli. The vision of this company “To spread the heritage of giving, receiving and enjoying dried meat by making our products and services available in every Chinatown in the world.” This company had 2 missions. The first mission, to seriously improving the quality of our products and services through innovation. The second, to train our staff to work and serve with the heart so our consumers are satisfied with every encounter they have with the Oloiya brand. Other of the mission and vision, the belief of this company is Heritage, Innovation, and Sharing. Based on this belief the company has a charity organization, KCK Shares to involve in charity work. PEST Analysis Political Consideration of the Oloiya is based on Malaysia Legal and tradition pig is Non-Halal food, since the company cannot get the profit on Malay race and QQFR have to try to do export sales to overseas, but has the legal problem the company had to abandon the idea. In taxation, income tax will deduct on the profit since the company will get less profit on...
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...HIGHLIGHTS-Malaysia announces consumption, property taxes in 2014 budget Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:00am EDT AFFORDABLE HOMES * To further increase access to home ownership at affordable prices, an estimated 223,000 units of new houses will be built by the government and the private sector in 2014. - Companies that specialise in affordable housing development include Hua Yang Bhd. * Government to allocate 578 million ringgit to the National Housing Department (JPN) for low cost flats consisting of 16,473 housing units. * Malaysian's government to provide 80,000 housing units with an allocation of 1 billion ringgit under affordable housing scheme. The sales price of the houses will be 20 percent lower than market prices. * Introduce the Private Affordable Ownership Housing Scheme (MyHome) to encourage the private sector to build more low and medium-cost houses. The scheme provides a subsidy of 30,000 ringgit to the private developers for each unit built. * Preference will be given to developers who build low and medium-cost houses in areas with high demand and limited to 10,000 units in 2014. * The scheme is for housing projects approved effective from 1 January 2014 with an allocation of 300 million ringgit. POPULATION DISTRIBUTION AND BASIC DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTIC REPORT 2010 1. Introduction The 2010 Population and Housing Census of Malaysia (Census 2010) was the fifth decennial census to be conducted since the formation of Malaysia in 1963....
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...Purina Petcare Company is a leading company in the pet products industry. Purina Petcare Company is truly dedicated to improving the lives of cats and dogs through quality nutrition and care. Core philosophies include promoting responsible pet care, humane education, community involvement, and the positive bond between people and their pets. PURINA Petcare Company was formed when Friskies PetCare Company and Ralston Purina merged in December 2001. The new organization combines their rich histories, diverse resources and complementary strengths, offering pets and their owners a wide variety of innovative, high-quality and nutritious products. Competitors of the Company: * Iams Proactive Original ( www.iams.com ) * Hills Pet ( www.hillspet.com ) * Whiskas ( www.Whiskas.com ) Suppliers: * Shouguang Xincheng Food Co., Ltd. (supplies raw materials for manufacturing) * Qingdao Odenry Pet Product Co., Ltd (supplies raw materials for manufacturing) * Pet Center Inc. China Co., Ltd. (supplies raw materials for manufacturing) Intermediaries: * Hileytech Sdn Bhd (reseller of pet food and other services) * Pet Lovers Centre (retailer of certain cat food products and vet services) * Qian Hu The Pet Family Sdn Bhd (seller of certain cat food products and services) Customers: * Pet-specific customers (those who only look for specialty store that caters their own specific pet. For example, cat enthusiasts only visit stores that only specializes in...
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...CAREER GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING IN MALAYSIA: DEVELOPMENT AND TRENDS Assoc. Prof. Dr. Quek Ai Hwa University of Malaya Career Guidance and Counselling in Malaysia: Development and Trends Assoc. Prof. Dr. Quek Ai Hwa Education Faculty, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Abstract This paper extends a comprehensive presentation of career guidance and counselling in Malaysia by addressing development and trends, which may have implications for Asian counsellors. Attention is drawn on career guidance development in Malaysia which spanned over four decades of practice starting with its introduction into the educational system and progressing as a social service in the Malaysian society. Discussion proceeds onto the modernity impact of society on career guidance together with reviewing factors like policy legislation aimed at legitimising counselling practice including career counselling to-date in Malaysia. Given the prevalence of information technology (IT) and rapid changes in labour market conditions (including work culture as well as structure) brought about by science and technology (S&T) in many Asian countries including Malaysia, it is relevant to discuss some of the challenges to Asian career counsellors in general and with special reference to Malaysian counterparts. These challenges include preparedness of counsellors to handle career cases in societies which are in transition from production oriented to technology...
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... Summary | 9 | | | | CHAPTER 2 | LITERATURE REVIEW | | | 2.1 Literature Review | 10 | | 2.1.1 Concept of financial leverage with bank profitability | 11-15 | | 2.1.2 Concept of liquidity with bank profitability | 16 | | 2.1.3 Concept of size with bank profitability | 17 | CHAPTER 3 | APPENDICES 3.1 Number Employed, Unemployed and Unemployed Rate (Female) 2000-2010. Statistics On Women, Family and Community 2011. Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development. 3.2 Enrolment in Government-assisted Educational Institutions by Level of Education 2001-2010. Statistics On Women, Family and Community 2011. Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development 3.3 2013 Budget Presentation Speech by Malaysia Prime Minister. 3.4 The Household Use of Internet Survey,2005 by Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commisions. | | | | | CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The usage of Internet has grown rapidly over the past years and it has become a common means for delivering and trading information, services and goods. Nowadays, internet is not only a networking media, but it is also used as a means of transaction for consumers at global market. Women contribute the large number of Malaysia’s population. Major contribution of women to the nation always been recognized....
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...MALAYSIA – SINGAPORE RELATIONS: THE SECURITY DILEMMAS INTRODUCTION ‘It's impossible to be friendly with Singapore because of the neighbouring city states’ unfriendliness towards Malaysia. Singapore gets into that kind of mood that they reject anything that comes from Malaysia. We try to be as friendly as possible but it's impossible’.[1] Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad Former Malaysia Prime Minister “…we fear that at some time or other there could be a random act of madness like cutting off our water supplies, which they had publicly threatened whenever there were differences between us… we have to be prepared for all contingencies”.[2] Lee Kuan Yew Former Singapore Prime Minister Singapore became a part of Malaysia in 1963. On the part of Singapore, such was a welcomed move as Singapore lacks the depth, mass and resources deemed necessary for development and survival. On the part of Malaysia, however, it started-off as a half-hearted decision, with Tunku Abdul Rahman fearing that the Chinese population in Singapore would, after the merger, upset the Malay majority in Malaya. In May 1960, he told Malayan students in London that “(The) Chinese-educated and new immigrants will always be loyal to China and they are less Malay-minded,” and that the inclusion of the 1.3 million Chinese would confuse Malayans and ruin the calm atmosphere of the Federation[3]...
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...middle income household between two sampled capital cities demographic; Kota Bharu Kelantan and Shah Alam, Selangor : To investigate what is the affordability in housing ownership with respect to occupational background and demographic area Problem Statement According to Maslow Theory of Needs, owning a decent house comes under psychological needs for human for their shelter. Housing has two important dimensions; as shelter and as real estate, and its social importance as spatial locus of personal and familial life where access to social and economic structural opportunities begins, and where privacy and security are located (Bratt et. al., 2006; Thalmann, 2003). As Government in developed and developing countries are focusing more towards lower income households needs, among others housing issues, issues of housing ownership by middle income households becomes more critical. Affordability issues may be differ by demographic location giving by the demand and supply of houses and population of the area. Paying attention to the concern of middle income households, leads the research to address two main issues. Firstly, what are the factors affecting affordability in housing ownership by middle income household. We have selected two sampled capital cities; Kota Bharu Kelantan and Shah Alam, Selangor to make the comparison. Secondly, what is the affordability in housing ownership with respect to demographic area and occupational background. Literature Review Only...
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