Competency enhancement: training need analysis among local authority officer

Competency play an important role for employee to compete in a challenging environment work place. From an organisational perspective, it becomes a competitive advantage for a company if they have a competent employee. For the labourers, it becomes an advantage to earning a higher salary and creates...

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Main Authors: Isa, Khairunesa, Md Yusoff, Rosman, Ahmad, Abd. Rahman, Abu, Ismail, Jamian, Anizam, Jamin, Johanisma, Palpanadan, Sarala @ Thulasi
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Language:English
Published: Hampstead Psychological Associates 2020
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author Isa, Khairunesa
Md Yusoff, Rosman
Ahmad, Abd. Rahman
Abu, Ismail
Jamian, Anizam
Jamin, Johanisma
Palpanadan, Sarala @ Thulasi
author_facet Isa, Khairunesa
Md Yusoff, Rosman
Ahmad, Abd. Rahman
Abu, Ismail
Jamian, Anizam
Jamin, Johanisma
Palpanadan, Sarala @ Thulasi
author_sort Isa, Khairunesa
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description Competency play an important role for employee to compete in a challenging environment work place. From an organisational perspective, it becomes a competitive advantage for a company if they have a competent employee. For the labourers, it becomes an advantage to earning a higher salary and creates a good career development. The purpose of this study is to identify the level of competency (knowledge, expertise and attitude) of local authority officers and the types of training needed by the local authority officers. This explanatory research design used mixed method to collect data and involved 188 local authority officers from three different local authority. Quantitative results showed that local authority officers from three different areas have a high level of competency meanwhile output from round table discussion showed that there are several respondents who stated that local authority officers are not competent in executing work, especially in terms of knowledge.
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spelling uthm-60852022-01-26T04:56:46Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6085/ Competency enhancement: training need analysis among local authority officer Isa, Khairunesa Md Yusoff, Rosman Ahmad, Abd. Rahman Abu, Ismail Jamian, Anizam Jamin, Johanisma Palpanadan, Sarala @ Thulasi JS Local government Municipal government Competency play an important role for employee to compete in a challenging environment work place. From an organisational perspective, it becomes a competitive advantage for a company if they have a competent employee. For the labourers, it becomes an advantage to earning a higher salary and creates a good career development. The purpose of this study is to identify the level of competency (knowledge, expertise and attitude) of local authority officers and the types of training needed by the local authority officers. This explanatory research design used mixed method to collect data and involved 188 local authority officers from three different local authority. Quantitative results showed that local authority officers from three different areas have a high level of competency meanwhile output from round table discussion showed that there are several respondents who stated that local authority officers are not competent in executing work, especially in terms of knowledge. Hampstead Psychological Associates 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6085/1/AJ%202020%20%28167%29.pdf Isa, Khairunesa and Md Yusoff, Rosman and Ahmad, Abd. Rahman and Abu, Ismail and Jamian, Anizam and Jamin, Johanisma and Palpanadan, Sarala @ Thulasi (2020) Competency enhancement: training need analysis among local authority officer. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 24 (8). pp. 199-209. ISSN 1475-7192 https://dx.doi.org/ 10.37200/IJPR/V24I8/PR280022
spellingShingle JS Local government Municipal government
Isa, Khairunesa
Md Yusoff, Rosman
Ahmad, Abd. Rahman
Abu, Ismail
Jamian, Anizam
Jamin, Johanisma
Palpanadan, Sarala @ Thulasi
Competency enhancement: training need analysis among local authority officer
title Competency enhancement: training need analysis among local authority officer
title_full Competency enhancement: training need analysis among local authority officer
title_fullStr Competency enhancement: training need analysis among local authority officer
title_full_unstemmed Competency enhancement: training need analysis among local authority officer
title_short Competency enhancement: training need analysis among local authority officer
title_sort competency enhancement: training need analysis among local authority officer
topic JS Local government Municipal government
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6085/
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6085/
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6085/1/AJ%202020%20%28167%29.pdf