International Journal of Biomass Utilization and Sustainable Energy (IJBUSE)

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The International Journal of Biomass Utilization and Sustainable Energy (IJBUSE) aim is to engage and disseminate knowledge in all the related areas of utilization of biomass, waste to wealth conversion, bioenergy, biotransformations and bioresource systems analysis, and technologies associated with conversion or production. For Bioenergy Processes, fermentations, thermochemical conversions, liquid and gaseous fuels, and petrochemical substitutes are also discussed. Types of papers published are: Full-length original research papers; Short communications; Review articles; Letters to the Editor.

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    E-leader practices on construction project: Industrialised building system (IBS)
    ( 2021-05-03)
    Ahmad Pozin M.A.
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    Soosay Nathan S.A.P.
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    Yaziz Mohamad M.F.A.
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    Abashah A.
    In the new globalisation world, organisation took the virtual teams approach as initiative to become more dynamic and innovative to sustain in the new business transformation era. Communicate across time, boundaries and culture become a common practices into new concept of virtual team landscape. Despite an increase implementation virtual approach in organizations, there is little research has been done in discovering virtual-leader capabilities in managing construction industry. In spite, this research to investigate e-leader competency in managing project operational associated to communication process in managing Industrialised Building System (IBS) project. The data were obtained in this research from literature review and followed by semi-structured face to face interviews with 5 experienced stakeholders from IBS contractors in Malaysia. The result from this study showed e-leader face a unique challenges compare to the conventional teams especially on building trust, communication, diversity and distance. E-leader have to set a clear direction and strategies in developing a good management performance and team development process by create a team orientation which included motivation, building positive effect and shaping perception.
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    Employee performance in the perspectives of training, reward and motivation: Evidences from the Malaysian manufacturing company
    ( 2021-05-03)
    Saraih U.N.
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    Mariadass R.J.
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    Abashah A.
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    Mutalib S.A.
    The purpose of this study is to examine several effects of predictors (eg. training, reward, motivation) on employee performance in the manufacturing sector. Organization needs to put more concerns about employee performance to ensure they could retain their performance because this can contribute to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the country. To provide some empirical evidences on the performance among the manufacturing employees this study has been conducted in one company located in the Northern Region of Peninsular Malaysia. A number of 355 respondents have been participated in this study. Training, reward and motivation have been tested as the independent variables in this study. Meanwhile, employees' performance has been examined as the dependent variable in this study. The questionnaires comprised of 28 items based on Likert Scale ranged from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5). In this study, data is collected from 355 employees based on the simple random sampling technique. Results presented that training and reward had significant and positive relationships with employee performance. Interestingly, results revealed that motivation had significant and negative relationship with employee performance in this study. Therefore, motivation did not give great impact on employee performance based on the study findings. Hence, this study concluded that the organization should emphasis on employees' training and reward to ensure the employees' performance can be increased.
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    Parents satisfaction towards the Childcare Service Centre: Does babysitter's matter?
    ( 2021-05-03)
    Abashah A.
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    Yaziz M.F.A.
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    Naiemah S.U.
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    Pozin M.A.A.
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    Rozali A.Z.
    Customer satisfaction is of the utmost importance for a company to improve its management, service and quality. The aim of this research study is therefore to investigate what are the critical factors in the satisfaction of the parent with childcare services. By using the questionnaire survey, a quantitative approach was used. The questionnaires consist of 21 questions, including the profile of the respondents. The data collected was analysed using the SPSS software and the findings show a positive significant relationship between each of the variables that are babysitter's factors (babysitter's qualification with r=0.506 and p<0.01, babysitter's behaviour with r=0.506 and p<0.01 and babysitter's practice with r=0.303 and p<0.01) towards the satisfaction of the parent. The analysis of reliability, descriptive, correlation and regression were included in the running of the data. Therefore, on the basis of the research findings, the researcher suggests that the childcare centre should continuously improve its services, particularly in terms of qualification, behaviour and practice of babysitters.