Management control systems on managing employees and its effect on performance in services sector / Maziana Zakaria

Management control systems (MCS) were regarded as a helpful tool for organization in terms of controlling employees due to its nature dealing with resources and capabilities. Employees, currently, have become the central part in sustaining competitive advantage which has been argued that have a sign...

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Main Author: Zakaria, Maziana
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2016
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19694/
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description Management control systems (MCS) were regarded as a helpful tool for organization in terms of controlling employees due to its nature dealing with resources and capabilities. Employees, currently, have become the central part in sustaining competitive advantage which has been argued that have a significant impact on performance. Employers are constantly searching for more relevant approaches in managing employees to achieve utmost performance, whilst employees are keen to enhance the benefits at work such as opportunities for more absorbing and inspiring work patterns. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to examine the nature of employees control as the elements of MCS on performance and the influence of task environment on MCS in services sector. Further consideration of wellbeing will take place as moderator in the relationship of MCS and performance. As such, this model eventually leads to having better on-going decision making. The employees control was incorporated in general MCS (omcs), interactive control (mics) and enabling control (mecs) systems as the elements of MCS. A questionnaire survey was conducted among managers in services organization which located in Peninsular Malaysia. An analysis of 166 survey responses shows mixed results for the hypotheses developed which empirically tested using Partial Least Square-SEM. For direct relationship, the results revealed that there is significant positive relationship between task environment and MCS…
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spelling uitm-196942018-06-07T05:58:07Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19694/ Management control systems on managing employees and its effect on performance in services sector / Maziana Zakaria Zakaria, Maziana Malaysia Management control systems (MCS) were regarded as a helpful tool for organization in terms of controlling employees due to its nature dealing with resources and capabilities. Employees, currently, have become the central part in sustaining competitive advantage which has been argued that have a significant impact on performance. Employers are constantly searching for more relevant approaches in managing employees to achieve utmost performance, whilst employees are keen to enhance the benefits at work such as opportunities for more absorbing and inspiring work patterns. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to examine the nature of employees control as the elements of MCS on performance and the influence of task environment on MCS in services sector. Further consideration of wellbeing will take place as moderator in the relationship of MCS and performance. As such, this model eventually leads to having better on-going decision making. The employees control was incorporated in general MCS (omcs), interactive control (mics) and enabling control (mecs) systems as the elements of MCS. A questionnaire survey was conducted among managers in services organization which located in Peninsular Malaysia. An analysis of 166 survey responses shows mixed results for the hypotheses developed which empirically tested using Partial Least Square-SEM. For direct relationship, the results revealed that there is significant positive relationship between task environment and MCS… Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2016 Book Section PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19694/1/ABS_MAZIANA%20ZAKARIA%20TDRA%20VOL%209%20IGS%2016.pdf Zakaria, Maziana (2016) Management control systems on managing employees and its effect on performance in services sector / Maziana Zakaria. (2016) In: The Doctoral Research Abstracts. IGS Biannual Publication, 9 (9). Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
spellingShingle Malaysia
Zakaria, Maziana
Management control systems on managing employees and its effect on performance in services sector / Maziana Zakaria
title Management control systems on managing employees and its effect on performance in services sector / Maziana Zakaria
title_full Management control systems on managing employees and its effect on performance in services sector / Maziana Zakaria
title_fullStr Management control systems on managing employees and its effect on performance in services sector / Maziana Zakaria
title_full_unstemmed Management control systems on managing employees and its effect on performance in services sector / Maziana Zakaria
title_short Management control systems on managing employees and its effect on performance in services sector / Maziana Zakaria
title_sort management control systems on managing employees and its effect on performance in services sector / maziana zakaria
topic Malaysia
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19694/