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

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...

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Main Authors: Puteh, Fadilah, Kaliannan, Maniam, Alum, Nafis
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Language:English
Published: Research Management Institute (RMI) 2014
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Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13587/
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spelling uitm-135872016-06-30T09:03:00Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13587/ Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alum Puteh, Fadilah Kaliannan, Maniam Alum, Nafis Management. Industrial Management 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 subject-matter-experts from various sectors in the Malaysian servicebased industry. Fifteen HR Directors andHR 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 analysed 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/13587/1/AJ_FADILAH%20PUTEH%2014%20SMRJ.pdf Puteh, Fadilah and Kaliannan, Maniam and Alum, Nafis (2014) Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alum. Social and Management Research Journal, 11 (2). pp. 1-23. ISSN 1675-7017
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Puteh, Fadilah
Kaliannan, Maniam
Alum, Nafis
Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alum
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 subject-matter-experts from various sectors in the Malaysian servicebased industry. Fifteen HR Directors andHR 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 analysed using thematic analysis. The findings revealed different approaches or practices of CPD among several service sectors in Malaysia.
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author Puteh, Fadilah
Kaliannan, Maniam
Alum, Nafis
author_facet Puteh, Fadilah
Kaliannan, Maniam
Alum, Nafis
author_sort Puteh, Fadilah
title Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alum
title_short Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alum
title_full Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alum
title_fullStr Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alum
title_full_unstemmed Continued professional development practices in Malaysian service-based industry / Fadilah Puteh, Maniam Kaliannan and Nafis Alum
title_sort continued professional development practices in malaysian service-based industry / fadilah puteh, maniam kaliannan and nafis alum
publisher Research Management Institute (RMI)
publishDate 2014
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13587/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13587/1/AJ_FADILAH%20PUTEH%2014%20SMRJ.pdf
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