Category: Literature Review

André Brink’s novel Other Lives, subtitled as A Novel in Three Parts, is contaminated with prevarication and mistiness. The genre of this book is being somewhere between a collection of short stories and a full-fledged novel, traces it in a liminal textual space. Brink’s gesture of obscuring generic conventions and disturbing hopes of development and…

Gender and economics were no less intertwined during the eighteenth century than they are today. In the world of emerging paper currency and capitalism, many issues were coming to light for the first time, and so it comes as little surprise that the literature of the day so often focused on economic problems. But not…

Refreshing yet practical, Jim Wallis’ timely book Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street provides a taut argument and solution for the current state of the nation. Both readable and challenging to the inner psyche of the reader, Wallis strips down all the extra jargon and maintains a straightforward voice throughout the…

The title of the story Rashōmon is the name of an entryway in Kyōto, the biggest gate of Kyōto, actually. In any case, Kyōto has fallen on harsh occasions, and our protagonist is a recently ownerless samurai who has looked for the gate’s safe house from the heavy downpour. There, he ponders whether he should…

Table of contents Introduction Hibah practice in Malaysia Demographic factors Economic factors Family characteristics Knowledge Introduction Pandiyan et al, (2016) stated that literature review is a classification and evaluation of what the accredited scholars and researchers have written on a topic, organized according to a guiding concept such as research questions or research objective, thesis,…

Intellectual capital was measured by many, coined by some, agreed by few and valued formally and practically by no one. Intellect management is sought to depend on value creation in the contemporary era of business knowledge. Intellectual capital as it is coined as intangible assets including customer information, technology, reputation, brand name and corporate culture.…

In a rapidly developing and consumerist world, humanity has fallen deep into the rabbit hole of materialism. The root of man’s estrangement from nature stems from the ongoing issue of the wasteful trappings of society. Believe it or not it seems that the inevitable forces of materialism was also present—if not created—in the early nineteenth…

Table of contents Abstract Introduction Literature Review Manipulations of PA Abstract The purpose of this report is to review the available literature on the antecedents of performance appraisal (PA) and how it influenced organisational activities and perceptions. Academic textbooks and journals were used as main research forms in assessing trends of PA. There will be…

As humans, in many cases, it is our nature to bring things together, to make sense of them, and to find the pieces of a puzzle if they go missing. Based on evidence and factual information, we collect and pan out logic in the form of events, taking it little by little, step by step.…

Buttigieg D.M., Deery S. J., and Iverson R.D. (2014) look at the trade union membership determinants by the frustration–aggression (exit–voice) theory point of view. This theory suggests that when members are satisfied than they actively involved in the trade union movement and when members are unsatisfied with the working style of trade union they leave…