Achievements

SUCCESSFULLY PUBLISHED A PAPER TITLED "UNLOCKING PATHWAYS TO MOBILE PAYMENT SATISFACTION AND COMMITMENT"

Congratulations to Luan-Thanh Nguyen for successfully publishing a paper titled “Unlocking Pathways to Mobile Payment Satisfaction and Commitment” in the Journal of Computer Information Systems (Taylor and Francis, ABDC-A, Impact Factor 2022=3.317).

Co-authored by Distinguished Professor Ts Dr Ooi Keng Boon, FASc (Dean), Professor Dr Garry Tan Wei Han (Professor), Assistant Professor Dr Eugene Aw Cheng Xi (Head of Research and Postgraduate Studies), Professor Dr Yogesh K. Dwivedi (Professor of Digital Marketing & Innovation, Co-Director of Research, School of Management, Swansea University, Wales, UK, and  Pei-San Lo (Postgraduate Student, PhD)

BEST PAPER AWARD AT THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEM (ICETIS)

Congratulations to Yuan Yunpeng for receiving the Best Paper Award for his research titled “How Does User-Generated Content Affect Users’ Obsessive Use of Lifestyle-Sharing Mobile Social Networking Site?” presented at the 2^nd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent System (ICETIS). The conference was held on 2-3 September 2022.

Co-authored by his supervisors and Graduate Business School staff: Distinguished Professor Ts Dr Ooi Keng Boon (Dean), Associate Professor Dr Cham Tat Huei (Deputy Dean), Professor Dr Garry Tan Wei Han (Professor), and Assistant Professor Dr Eugene Aw Cheng Xi (Head of Research and Postgraduate Studies)

SUCCESSFULLY PUBLISHED A RESEARCH ARTICLE ENTITLED “DOES COVID-19 PANDEMIC MOTIVATE PRIVACY SELF DISCLOSURE IN MOBILE FINTECH TRANSACTIONS? A PRIVACY-CALCULUS-BASED DUAL-STAGE SEM-ANN ANALYSIS”

Congratulations Yuan Yunpeng for successfully publishing a research article entitled “Does COVID-19 Pandemic Motivate Privacy Self Disclosure in Mobile Fintech Transactions? A Privacy-Calculus-Based Dual-Stage SEM-ANN Analysis”.

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE) is the ranked ’A’ journal by the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List and ‘Level 3’ journal in the Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Quality Guide( ABS) and has an Impact Factor of 8.702 according to the Journal Citation Reports 2021 (JCR) by Clarivate Analytics.

Co-authored by his supervisors: Distinguished Professor Ts Dr Ooi Keng Boon, FASc (Dean), and Professor Dr Garry Tan Wei Han (Professor)

BEST PAPER AWARD

7th International Conference on Business, Accounting, Finance and Economics 2019 – Managing Uncertainties Through Resilience, 4 October 2019, Malaysia 

Paper titled: A new credit rating model from the perspective of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia with analytical hierarchy process (AHP) 

ACADEMICS WORLD EXCELLENT PAPER AWARD

“Academics World International Conference”, 28 March 2016, Tokyo, Japan.

Paper titled: “ Application of Theory of Planned Behaviour to Predict Consumer Behaviour to Purchase Safer Car.”  

LEADERSHIP AWARD

AXIATA Foundation, Young CEO Development Programme, 5th December 2016

Leonard won the Leadership Award from the Young CEO Development Programme (YCDP), organized by Axiata Foundation. 

This is a 2-years leadership development programme exclusively to Malaysian aged 20-25 years, aimed at grooming high potential Malaysians to a game-changing corporate leader of tomorrow.

APPOINTED DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF MIROS

Congratulations to Dr Khairil Anwar Abu Kassim, who was recently appointed the new director-general of the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS).  

KHAIRIL ANWAR 'S STUDY WON THE BEST PAPER AWARD AT THE ACADEMICS WORLD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TOKYO, JAPAN

Study: Factors Determining Consumer Behaviour towards Purchases of Safer Cars in Malaysia.

Khairil Anwar is a firm advocate of road safety. He is currently the Secretary General of ASEAN NCAP – a new car assessment program for Southeast Asia – at the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS). Prior to this, he headed MIROS’ Crash Safety Engineering unit and worked in Japan.

Eager to challenge himself and enhance his management skills, Khairil Anwar enrolled at UCSI University to pursue the DBA. Pursuing his affinities, he employed the theory of planned behaviour to investigate consumer behaviour towards purchasing safer cars in Malaysia. Purposed to understand preferences and identify the gaps that that prevent a five-star car safety scenario in Malaysia, the study won the Best Paper Award at the Academics World International Conference in Tokyo, Japan.

THE RESULTS FROM CHIENG’S STUDY OFFERED USEFUL INSIGHTS FOR THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF HRM PRACTICES FOR MALAYSIAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES

Study: The Mediating Effect of Organisational Commitment on the Relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) Practices and Organisational Performance in the Malaysian Construction Industry.

Seeking to determine the impact of current human resource management practices on organisational performance and staff commitment, Chieng’s study involved front line employees in a group of 3,286 large construction companies affiliated with the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB).

Chieng’s study collected 205 pockets of usable data that sought to determine the impact of HRM practices (e.g. recruitment, selection, training, compensation, performance appraisals and job design) in the industry. The findings showed that unlike other HRM practices, training and performance appraisals did not have a strong correlation with performance and organisational commitment. The results from this study offered useful insights for the future development of HRM practices for Malaysian construction companies.