Determinant of happiness among urban civil servants of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam

Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has initiated vigorous socio-economic and other developmental projects in order to raise the well-being and the quality of life of its people. The present study aimed to reveal insights on the reality of life satisfaction among the urban dwellers in Malaysia, p...

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Main Authors:	Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah, Md. Noon, Hazizan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia 2016
Subjects:	HM1176 Social influence. Social pressure HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
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spelling	iium-605092018-01-02T06:44:46Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/60509/ Determinant of happiness among urban civil servants of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah Md. Noon, Hazizan HM1176 Social influence. Social pressure HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has initiated vigorous socio-economic and other developmental projects in order to raise the well-being and the quality of life of its people. The present study aimed to reveal insights on the reality of life satisfaction among the urban dwellers in Malaysia, particularly the urban civil servants who lived in the major cities in Klang Valley. Adopting the Allardt’s dimensions of welfare, this study explored the subjective meaning of life satisfaction among the administrative staff of a Malaysian university namely Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Sixteen key informants from four different categories of administrative staff of the University’s main campus in Shah Alam, Selangor were engaged in the researchers’ in-depth interviews whose inputs were later reinforced and verified through written feedback survey. The NVivo version 9 was employed to analyse the data and the main finding has shown that the responses centered around Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/60509/1/jas%20paper%202016%20-%20Hazizan%20%26%20Hafizah.pdf Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah and Md. Noon, Hazizan (2016) Determinant of happiness among urban civil servants of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam. Journal of Administrative Science, 13 (2). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1675-1302 http:jas.uitm.edu.my
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description	Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has initiated vigorous socio-economic and other developmental projects in order to raise the well-being and the quality of life of its people. The present study aimed to reveal insights on the reality of life satisfaction among the urban dwellers in Malaysia, particularly the urban civil servants who lived in the major cities in Klang Valley. Adopting the Allardt’s dimensions of welfare, this study explored the subjective meaning of life satisfaction among the administrative staff of a Malaysian university namely Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Sixteen key informants from four different categories of administrative staff of the University’s main campus in Shah Alam, Selangor were engaged in the researchers’ in-depth interviews whose inputs were later reinforced and verified through written feedback survey. The NVivo version 9 was employed to analyse the data and the main finding has shown that the responses centered around
format	Article
author	Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah Md. Noon, Hazizan
author_facet	Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah Md. Noon, Hazizan
author_sort	Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah
title	Determinant of happiness among urban civil servants of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam
title_short	Determinant of happiness among urban civil servants of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam
title_full	Determinant of happiness among urban civil servants of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam
title_fullStr	Determinant of happiness among urban civil servants of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam
title_full_unstemmed	Determinant of happiness among urban civil servants of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam
title_sort	determinant of happiness among urban civil servants of universiti teknologi mara, shah alam
publisher	Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia
publishDate	2016
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Determinant of happiness among urban civil servants of Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam

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