Managerial competency and job performance among veterinary officers in Department of Veterinary Services Malaysia

This quantitative research paper entitled Managerial Competency and Job Performance among Vet-officer in the Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) Malaysia, aims to investigate the relationship between managerial competencies and job performance among the Vet-officers of DVS Malaysia. The manageri...

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Main Author: Mohamad Zairollizan, Mohamad Jahar
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://etd.uum.edu.my/4635/1/s815944.pdf
https://etd.uum.edu.my/4635/2/s815944_abstarct.pdf
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Summary:This quantitative research paper entitled Managerial Competency and Job Performance among Vet-officer in the Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) Malaysia, aims to investigate the relationship between managerial competencies and job performance among the Vet-officers of DVS Malaysia. The managerial competencies comprised of planning & organizing, leadership, controlling and personal attribute. The respondents from this study comprised of 105 Vet-officers from DVS Malaysia. Data were analyzed using Statistics Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 17. Test conducted were Pearson's correlation and regression. The results of the study showed that the level of managerial competency and overall job performance among Vet-officer are at moderate level. This study also showed that only personal attributes had a positive and significant influence on employee job performance. Overall, the four dimension of managerial competency jointly explained about 23 per cent of the variance in job performance. Therefore, it can be concluded that personal attributes were an important predictor of job performance. Based on this finding, it is important to note that in an effort to improve job performance of employees, problem of personal attributes must be encountered before embarking on improving the competency of the employee.