Study on benevolent leadership wins award
Tunku Abdul Rahman Faculty of Accountancy and Management lecturer Tan Jue Xin and PhD and MPhil Programmes head Dr Cham Tat Huei received the Best Paper Award at the 2018 Marketing in Asia Group (MAG) Scholar Conference in Business, Marketing and Tourism.
The paper was co-authored by Universiti Putra Malaysia Faculty of Economics and Management deputy dean Associate Professor Dr Yuhanis Abdul Aziz and senior lecturer Dr Dahlia Zawawi.
Themed Advancing Marketing and Tourism in the Digital Economy, the international event was organised by MAG Scholar and Sarawak Research Society last month in Kuching, Sarawak.
The paper, titled
focused on discussing the long-standing turnover issue in Malaysia’s hotel industry. By recognising the importance of workplace relationship in contributing to the retention of hotel employees, the study found that benevolent leadership, a leadership style that displays holistic concern towards employees’ personal well-being beyond the working context, has a significant impact in retaining hotel employees.
“As a novice scholar, it is a big step forward in my research journey. The reward is indeed a huge source of motivation that keeps me going. I value the effort contributed by the co-authors. I believe that there will be greater research opportunities ahead for me,” said Tan.
At the conference, Cham took home the Asian Journal of Business Research (AJBR) Best Reviewer Award. The international journal by MAG Scholar aims to disseminate new and challenging theories, paradigms, findings and managerial implications based on actual Asian business situations.
AJBR has been indexed in the list of Australian Business Deans Council, Excellence in Research for Australia, EBSCOhost and Cabells, and was recently accepted into SCOPUS by Elsevier.
“I do article review for various academic journals, including the
and said Cham. “Research pertaining to Industry 4.0 in the business context has been a trend in business research. I have learnt a lot from reviewing research papers. The reviewing task encourages me to keep up with the rapidly expanding scholarship in my area of research so I can offer constructive and supportive feedback to help authors improve their research and increase their chances to get their article published.
“As a reviewer, I believe that researchers need to consistently update themselves so that they can successfully address research gaps. Reviewing research papers is rewarding because it promotes networking among academics and practitioners.”