Comparative analysis of managerial pratices in small medium enterprises in Malaysia
The purpose of this paper is to examine the existing practice in managerial strategic and tools being used and problems faced by local small medium enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector. With today’s arduous competition, it requires the SMEs to tune its current business practice to cope...
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| author | Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar Baharun, Rohaizat Hashim, Noor Hazarina |
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| description | The purpose of this paper is to examine the existing practice in managerial strategic
and tools being used and problems faced by local small medium enterprises (SMEs) in
the manufacturing sector. With today’s arduous competition, it requires the SMEs to
tune its current business practice to cope with the rapid changes in the business
environment. Due to the rapid changes, SMEs’ managers need to equip themselves
with new knowledge and ideas to promote effective managerial practices. In other
word, SMEs must have better trained managers, knowledgeable in managerial
activities. Focus should be on the knowledge on financial management, human
resource management and marketing management techniques. The research method
was adopted from the combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. Since
there is no detailed and up-to-date databases about SMEs in the Malaysian industry, the
sampling plan was designed by using judgment and snowball sampling. A total of 102
responses were obtained from the owner-managers drawn from Johor Bahru city area.
The most important findings of the study on managerial practices are that the SMEs
appear to have a very limited knowledge of the overall spectrum of managerial
practices. |
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| spelling | utm-12922017-08-22T06:58:10Z http://eprints.utm.my/1292/ Comparative analysis of managerial pratices in small medium enterprises in Malaysia Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar Baharun, Rohaizat Hashim, Noor Hazarina H Social Sciences (General) The purpose of this paper is to examine the existing practice in managerial strategic and tools being used and problems faced by local small medium enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector. With today’s arduous competition, it requires the SMEs to tune its current business practice to cope with the rapid changes in the business environment. Due to the rapid changes, SMEs’ managers need to equip themselves with new knowledge and ideas to promote effective managerial practices. In other word, SMEs must have better trained managers, knowledgeable in managerial activities. Focus should be on the knowledge on financial management, human resource management and marketing management techniques. The research method was adopted from the combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. Since there is no detailed and up-to-date databases about SMEs in the Malaysian industry, the sampling plan was designed by using judgment and snowball sampling. A total of 102 responses were obtained from the owner-managers drawn from Johor Bahru city area. The most important findings of the study on managerial practices are that the SMEs appear to have a very limited knowledge of the overall spectrum of managerial practices. Fakulti Pengurusan dan Pembangunan Sumber Manusia 2006-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/1292/1/AbuBakarAbdulHamid2006_ComparativeAnalysisofManagerialPracticesInSmall.pdf Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar and Baharun, Rohaizat and Hashim, Noor Hazarina (2006) Comparative analysis of managerial pratices in small medium enterprises in Malaysia. Jurnal kemanusiaan (8). pp. 34-45. ISSN 1675-1930 http://www.fppsm.utm.my/download/cat_view/13-jurnal-kemanusiaan/23-bil-08-dis-2006.html |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar Baharun, Rohaizat Hashim, Noor Hazarina Comparative analysis of managerial pratices in small medium enterprises in Malaysia |
| title | Comparative analysis of managerial pratices in small medium enterprises in Malaysia |
| title_full | Comparative analysis of managerial pratices in small medium enterprises in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Comparative analysis of managerial pratices in small medium enterprises in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparative analysis of managerial pratices in small medium enterprises in Malaysia |
| title_short | Comparative analysis of managerial pratices in small medium enterprises in Malaysia |
| title_sort | comparative analysis of managerial pratices in small medium enterprises in malaysia |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) |
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