'Organizational change and employees' motivation during the merging period at the Ministry of Education in 2013'

The merger of two separate organizations usually would cause change to happen in the new formed organization. The Ministry of Education was established since Malaysia obtained its independence. However in March 27, 2004 the new Ministry of Higher Education was formed with the purpose of making Malay...

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Main Author: Nur Emieliana, Ishak
Format: Thesis
Language:English
English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://etd.uum.edu.my/6363/
http://etd.uum.edu.my/6363/1/s812924_01.pdf
http://etd.uum.edu.my/6363/2/s812924_02.pdf
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Summary:The merger of two separate organizations usually would cause change to happen in the new formed organization. The Ministry of Education was established since Malaysia obtained its independence. However in March 27, 2004 the new Ministry of Higher Education was formed with the purpose of making Malaysia as an education hub in the region. However, in May 14, 2013 there was a cabinet reshuffle and it resulted in the merging of Ministry of Higher Education and Ministry of Education into one entity called the Ministry of Education (MoE). The new MoE in now in-charge of the primary, secondary and higher education in Malaysia. The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of employees’ motivation at Ministry of Education during the merging period in the Ministry of Education in 2013. Motivation, organization change and four independent variables which is rewards, working environment, nature of work and recognition) fifth of the hypothesis are testing in this study also deeply discuss in this. Quantitative data are use as the research design and all employees at this ministry during the merging happen in 2013 are selected to be population. For data collection total of 300 questionnaires was distribute to all respondent at the ministry and only 150 are collected due to a few reason then Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 18.00 for window) are use as techniques of data analysis. Based on the tested of hypotheses and clearly show that there is correlation relationship between all four variable (rewards, working environment, nature of work and recognition) with the motivation during the merging period in 2013 at the ministry of Education but with a weak relationship. Future researchers are encouraged to adding new variables, use qualitative method to collect the data and find the specific questionnaires to derive the question.