Research & Development
Annual Report 2018

Best Paper and Reviewer Awards

UTAR Faculty of Accountancy and Management (FAM) lecturer Tan Jue Xin and Head of PhD and MPhil Programmes Dr Cham Tat Huei received the “Best Paper Award” in the 2018 MAG Scholar Conference in Business, Marketing & Tourism. The paper was co-authored by Universiti Putra Malaysia Faculty of Economics and Management Deputy Dean Assoc Prof Dr Yuhanis Abdul Aziz and senior lecturer Dr Dahlia Zawawi. The conference was held from 23 to 25 June 2018 at Kuching, Sarawak.

The paper titled, “A Study of Benevolent Leadership in Hotel Industry Malaysia” focused on discussing the long-standing turnover issue in Malaysia’s hotel industry.

At the conference, Dr Cham took home the Asian Journal of Business Research (AJBR) “Best Reviewer Award”. AJBR is an international journal by MAG Scholar with the aims to disseminate new and challenging theories, paradigms, findings and managerial implications based on actual Asian business situations. AJBR has been indexed in the list of Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC), Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), EBSCOhost, Cabells and was recently accepted into SCOPUS by Elsevier

From left: Dr Cham, MAG Scholar Founding Director Prof Dr Fam Kim-Shyan and Tan