Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alam

The concept of Continued Professional Development (CPD) through continuous learning calls upon organisations to encourage, support, and provide favourable environment for employees to engage in continuous learning. This will help to avoid ‘professional obsolete syndrome’; a syndrome faced by a major...

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Main Authors:	Puteh, Fadilah, Kaliannan, Maniam, Alam, Nafis
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Research Management Institute (RMI) 2014
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12440/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12440/1/AJ_FADILAH%20PUTEH%20SMRJ%20%2014%201.pdf

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spelling	uitm-124402016-06-06T05:40:53Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12440/ Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alam Puteh, Fadilah Kaliannan, Maniam Alam, Nafis The concept of Continued Professional Development (CPD) through continuous learning calls upon organisations to encourage, support, and provide favourable environment for employees to engage in continuous learning. This will help to avoid ‘professional obsolete syndrome’; a syndrome faced by a majority if not all employees. This study intends to investigate the current practices of CPD in the Malaysian service-based industry. This article presents the results of an analysis of CPD practices using a qualitative approach based on several interviews with subjectmatter- experts from various sectors in the Malaysian service-based industry. Fifteen HR Directors and HR Managers were interviewed in order to gauge their perspectives on the current practices of CPD as this will depict the actual scenario on how they see; interpret; regulate; implement; and enforce CPD for staffs’ development. The data which was collected via interviews was transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings revealed different approaches or practices of CPD among several service sectors in Malaysia. Research Management Institute (RMI) 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12440/1/AJ_FADILAH%20PUTEH%20SMRJ%20%2014%201.pdf Puteh, Fadilah and Kaliannan, Maniam and Alam, Nafis (2014) Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alam. Social and Management Research Journal, 11 (2). pp. 1-22. ISSN 1675-7017
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description	The concept of Continued Professional Development (CPD) through continuous learning calls upon organisations to encourage, support, and provide favourable environment for employees to engage in continuous learning. This will help to avoid ‘professional obsolete syndrome’; a syndrome faced by a majority if not all employees. This study intends to investigate the current practices of CPD in the Malaysian service-based industry. This article presents the results of an analysis of CPD practices using a qualitative approach based on several interviews with subjectmatter- experts from various sectors in the Malaysian service-based industry. Fifteen HR Directors and HR Managers were interviewed in order to gauge their perspectives on the current practices of CPD as this will depict the actual scenario on how they see; interpret; regulate; implement; and enforce CPD for staffs’ development. The data which was collected via interviews was transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings revealed different approaches or practices of CPD among several service sectors in Malaysia.
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author_facet	Puteh, Fadilah Kaliannan, Maniam Alam, Nafis
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title	Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alam
title_short	Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alam
title_full	Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alam
title_fullStr	Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alam
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title_sort	continued professional development practices in malaysian service-based industry / fadilah puteh, maniam kaliannan and nafis alam
publisher	Research Management Institute (RMI)
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Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alam

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