@sbm.uum.edu.my
Senior Lecturer
School of Business Management, College of Business, UUM, 06010 Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia.
Dr. Khairol Anuar Ishak is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Business Management (SBM), UUM. He started working as an administration executive at Edaran Modenas Sdn. Bhd. in 1996. He has over 8 years of experience in warehouse management, inventory management control, logistics, and marketing with MODENAS and EMOS. He joined UUM in 2004 as a lecturer in the School of Business Management. He was appointed Coordinator for Student Co-curriculum for the Professional and Continuing Education Centre (PACE) from 2006 until 2008. In 2016, he was appointed Coordinator for the BBA Program, and in 2017, as Department Head for the Business and Entrepreneurship Department. In 2018, he was promoted to deputy dean at the School of Business Management, UUM. In 2019, he was seconded to Uniutama Consultancy and Education Sdn. Bhd. (UECSB).
Dr Khairol Anuar Ishak completed his PhD from USM in 2015. His research focuses mainly on relationship quality in franchise business. His first degree is a BBA, and his second degree is an MBA from UUM.
Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing
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Nazlina Zakaria, Khairol Anuar Ishak, Darwina Arshad, Nor Azimah Chew Abdullah, and Norzieiriani Ahmad
Growing Science
Understanding that the measurement of HRM construct in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) context is relatively critical, this study aims to assess the validity and reliability of HRM measure-ment based on the SME owner-managers’ perspective in the Malaysian context. Following a data collection from 95 SME owner-managers, a confirmatory factor analysis was performed to investigate the factorial validity and reliability of the HRM measurement. The finding indicates that the measurement model was acceptable in consideration of the evidences of adequate reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity. This study will be beneficial for future researchers, entrepreneurs and policy makers in better understanding to the value of HRM practices towards boosting the SMEs performance.