A Study on the Effectiveness of Safety Awareness at Seremban Specialist Hospital

A Study on the Effectiveness of Safety Awareness at Seremban Specialist Hospital

The main objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of safety awareness. The data is collected from 100 staffs at Seremban Specialist Hospital. The data is analyzed by using Correlation. Result shows that there is a significant relationship between employee’s attitudes, management pra...

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Main Author: Juliza Hartini, Johari
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
eng
Published: 2011
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HD28-70 Management
Industrial Management
RA Public aspects of medicine
Online Access:https://etd.uum.edu.my/3726/1/s804259.pdf
https://etd.uum.edu.my/3726/8/s804259_abstract.pdf
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A Study on the Effectiveness of Safety Awareness at Seremban Specialist Hospital
description The main objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of safety awareness. The data is collected from 100 staffs at Seremban Specialist Hospital. The data is analyzed by using Correlation. Result shows that there is a significant relationship between employee’s attitudes, management practices and leadership behavior towards level of awareness. It shows that employee’s attitudes, management practices and leadership behavior influences the effectiveness of safety awareness.
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title A Study on the Effectiveness of Safety Awareness at Seremban Specialist Hospital
title_short A Study on the Effectiveness of Safety Awareness at Seremban Specialist Hospital
title_full A Study on the Effectiveness of Safety Awareness at Seremban Specialist Hospital
title_fullStr A Study on the Effectiveness of Safety Awareness at Seremban Specialist Hospital
title_full_unstemmed A Study on the Effectiveness of Safety Awareness at Seremban Specialist Hospital
title_sort study on the effectiveness of safety awareness at seremban specialist hospital
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granting_department Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business
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spelling my-uum-etd.37262022-07-26T23:53:49Z A Study on the Effectiveness of Safety Awareness at Seremban Specialist Hospital 2011 Juliza Hartini, Johari Sabar, Rohafiz Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management RA Public aspects of medicine The main objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of safety awareness. The data is collected from 100 staffs at Seremban Specialist Hospital. The data is analyzed by using Correlation. Result shows that there is a significant relationship between employee’s attitudes, management practices and leadership behavior towards level of awareness. 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