Musramaini Mustapha

Investigating the Satisfaction and Intention to Use Blog: The Application of Extended TAM

This study aims to investigate the satisfaction of adult internet population toward intention to use blog. The components of Extended Technology Acceptance Model (eTAM) such as perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), and perceived enjoyment (PE) were used to examine the relationship with satisfaction in blogging activities. Besides that, the intention to use blog was examined as a result of being satisfied with the blogging activities. The results were analyzed using PLS method to test the hypotheses. The findings indicate that all the components of eTAM are positively related to satisfaction, and satisfaction is significant to predict intention.

Determining Factors Influencing Self-employed Intention Among Tertiary Education Students in East Coast Malaysia

This chapter investigates the factors of becoming self-employed among tertiary education students in East Coast Malaysia. Among others, three motivating factors obtained a positive response; intention to upgrade income to a higher level, be independent at work, and acquire more satisfaction as an entrepreneur. Self-administered questionnaires adapted from a previous research were distributed to tertiary education students in East Coast Malaysia. 104 questionnaires were analyzed and found to be usable for this study. Generally, the results of the study indicated that the respondents had a positive interest towards becoming self-employed with a very significant level through the research findings. This is a good sign to the related tertiary education institutions and country as a whole in which most of the future graduates are interested in being independent entrepreneurs. Thus, Malaysia will be able to increase the statistics of those who are self-employed among tertiary graduates. Not only that, the Ministry of Education can emphasize more activities, programmes and courses that are able to develop the skills to become entrepreneurs among tertiary education students.

Empowerment of Young Entrepreneurs Through Entrepreneurship Education: Students’ Perception

Entrepreneurship education becomes the vital agenda of the Ministry of Education (MOE) to create more entrepreneurs among graduates. It is important to develop attitudes, values, and spirit and create intentions to choose entrepreneurship as a career in the future. Malaysian graduates were found to have low intention to be self-employed. Due to that, MOE planned a lot of programs to increase students’ intention toward entrepreneurship. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of involvement in entrepreneurship education toward students’ intention to be self-employed. This study also aimed to identify the students’ perceptions toward entrepreneurship education to empowering young entrepreneurs. The unit of analysis is final-year students of UiTM Pahang. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21 was used to test its correlation and descriptive analysis. The findings indicated that there is no influence of involvement in entrepreneurship programs toward intention to be an entrepreneur. The result also found that the students agreed that entrepreneurship education can give many benefits to them.

To Serve or not to Serve? Student Leaders, Community Service, and Community Service Learning

Community service is volunteer activities that require commitment to help others. This paper explores the knowledge and experience of community service activity among student leaders. It identifies the attitudes and perceptions of the student leaders on community service learning module as a requirement in their academic program. The Community Service—Learning Attitudes and Perception Scale (CSLAPS) was applied in this study. The findings show that the student leaders would participate in community services because of their interest in the program itself as well as for their career development. This research information could be used by the schools and academia to engage their student leaders in an academic-based community service as a way of learning and contributing back to the society. Having served both, the learning part and social purposes of the module, it could shape students into well rounded future leaders whose theoretical learning and real engagement of Community Service could benefit many.