Industrial psychologists have continuously devised theories and executives and managers have tirelessly formulated various programmes related to employee motivation. A set of committed, motivated employees is an asset for any organisation – public or private. A well-known fact is that an organisation can emulate almost anything of another organis

The development of good character in Islam is mostly a process of dealing with one’s emotions. It helps to build and support good emotions like mercy, love, generosity and courage and to fight and suppress negative emotions such as jealousy, anger, selfishness and cowardice. Character building would therefore, have much to do with patience and pe

About 80 percent of the world's Muslim populations are non-native speakers of ‎Arabic language. ‎Since ‎it ‎is ‎‎obligatory for all Muslims to recite the Qur'an in ‎Arabic ‎during regular prayers, ‎an ‎‎extraordinary ‎‎social phenomenon has taken ‎place ‎in some parts of the ‎Muslim ‎world: in schools, ‎c

Effectiveness of policies is very much dependent upon the quality of the measures used to guide the formulation of those policies. Thus, methodological and practical issues surrounding poverty and inequality indices are of paramount importance in poverty alleviation efforts. This paper attempts to propose a Zakat Effectiveness Index (ZEIN) to addre

This paper presents the initial findings from currently ongoing survey of performance measurement and management practice in the Saudi Arabian public sector. The survey forms part of a wider experimental study seeking to test and validate a proposed standardised approach to the measurement of some aspects of the performance of public agencies: the

Urate lowering therapy in this country has mainly been achieved by the use of allopurinol and probenecid. A new xanthine oxidase inhibitor called febuxostat has been approved in 2009 for treatment of hyperuricaemia in gout. In this report, we describe the management of a patient with chronic tophaceous gout using febuxostat. The reduction in serum

The countries of Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) have always looked forward to establishing linkages and cooperation with Malaysia, especially in developing their human capital and institutional capacities (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia, 2011). Malaysia, therefore, should capitalise on these po

The issue of woman's leadership has a political importance and is related to the sociopolitical scene and cultural traditional in some state. we shall therefore focus on political focus on political situation that encompassed women's leadership role in the past and the present. This directed to the different interpretation of hadith through

There is much reported research on risk, and risk management but research on strategic IT system development outsourcing risk, from the client perspective, remains unclear. A literature-based conceptual risk framework for strategic IT system development outsourcing from the client perspective has been developed. We then investigate, (1) critical cl

This report provides the detailed information involved in the design and fabrication of the Second generation IIUM buggy car. All details regarding the method of design, design philosophy, concept and model construction, result evaluation, and fabrication processes are included. Selecting right materials with appropriate dimensions can reduce the o