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The study of factors influencing the incidence of improvisation among Police in Sibu, Sarawak

Fazilah, Aliman (2014) The study of factors influencing the incidence of improvisation among Police in Sibu, Sarawak. Masters thesis, Universiti Utara Malaysia.

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The purpose of this research is to study viewpoints regarding factors that influence incidents of improvisation among Police in Sibu, Sarawak, especially with occurrences at workplaces and during their duties. This study is undertaken to identify the basic demographic and nature or characteristics in themselves (police in Sibu, Sarawak) such as skills, knowledge, time duration, and jobs descriptive which became variables or starting point in the improvised stage. The primary data collected through questionnaires were distributed to 250 police in Sibu, Sarawak and only 217 respondents returned back for next
analysis phase. The system that researcher used to analyze data from respondents is “Statistical Package for the Social Sciences” or (SPSS) and the test that's been running for measuring the results in this research study were description analysis, descriptive, and regression were used to explain the background, factors and to test the hypothesis. This study shows that the majority of police in Sibu, Sarawak involved in incidents of improvisations during duties. The researcher intend to find the major factors that influence them fall into improvises actions during work. Referring to previous researchers in various fields such as management, finance, services and technological expertise, an improvisation gives vital impact in its operations, especially in decision making and reactions areas. To understand the factors that spur in improviser self, a descriptive and regression analysis as performed and found the skills that is the most important to influence in improvisation. Others variable that considered as important role in improvising actions are jobs descriptions, times and knowledge. In general, the results of this study would help to gain more understanding on the background and responding efficiently among those police who are involved in improvisation during the works. Finally, this study also gives a useful tool to all
organizations which serves to publics under Ministry of Defense, service industry, business associations, researchers and policy makers to „harvest‟ improvisation in
decision making and any urgency activities in Malaysia.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Supervisor : Ahmad Arshad, Darwina
Item ID: 4109
Uncontrolled Keywords: Factors, Improvisation, Police
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor. > HD58.9 Organizational Effectiveness.
Divisions: Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business
Date Deposited: 25 Sep 2014 07:23
Last Modified: 18 May 2022 02:35
Department: Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business
Name: Ahmad Arshad, Darwina
URI: https://etd.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/4109

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