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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

TITLE OF PAPER (CENTER)

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  1. (** articles should not be less than 4,000 words and not more than 6,000 words)

 

Author’s name1, Co-author’s2

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1Institution of University

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2Institution of University

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Correspondence Author (s): Correspondence’s name (email: x x x) (Center)

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ABSTRACT (CENTER)

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Insert your abstract here following this structure: Introduction, Methods, Results and implications. Abstract should contain 200-250 words and in one paragraph only. Papers in Bahasa Melayu should use the same format and should have an abstract in English. The title of the paper, abstract and keywords in English (if the paper written in Bahasa Melayu) should follow after the keywords in Bahasa Melayu.

 

Keywords: 6 keywords separated by coma (,) in alphabetical order. (Times New Roman, font size 12)

 ** Papers in Bahasa Melayu must have an abstract and title in English with similar abstract content, (Italic)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction (Times New Roman, font size 12 Bold)

 

Use Times New Roman font 12 and single spacing for texts in a paragraph. Paragraphs are justified.  

 

 

Literature review (Times New Roman, font size 12 Bold)

 

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Single spacing between paragraphs. Next paragraphs indent (No spacing).

If there are two authors, cited paper should be written in this way (Arrigo  & Casale, 2010).

Cite papers with one author and two authors in this manner (Markey, 2001; Hyman & Mason, 1995).

 

 

Method and study area (Times New Roman, font size 12 Bold)

 

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Single spacing between paragraphs. Next paragraphs indent (No spacing).

 

 

Results and discussion (Times New Roman, font size 12 Bold)

 

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First level sub-heading (Times New Roman, Font size 12 italic)

 

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Figure 1 (10 Bold): Title of figure (10)

 

 

Conclusion (Times New Roman, font size 12 Bold)

 

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Single spacing between paragraphs. Next paragraphs indent (No spacing).

 

 

Acknowledgement (Times New Roman, font size 12 Bold)

 

Place any acknowledgement here. We would like to thank xxxxxxx.

 

 

References (Times New Roman, font size 12 Bold) (APA Style)

 

[30% of references are journal articles]. 

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American Psychological Association (APA) Style

In alphabetical order

 

Journal article

Cox, A., Marchington, M., & Suter, J. (2009). Employee involvement and participation: developing the concept of institutional embeddedness using WERS2004. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 20(10), 2150-2168.

Gollan, P. and Lewin, D. (2013).  Employee representation in non-union firms:  An overview. Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 52, No. S. 1.  Wiley Periodical Inc.

 

Book

Aminuddin, M. (2009). Essential of employment and industrial relations. Mc

            Graw Hill, Kuala Lumpur.

Beardwell, I., & L. Holden (2001).  Human resource management: a contemporary   approach, 3rd edition. London, Pitman Publishing.

 

Chapter in book

Davis, E., & Landsbury, R. (1998). Employment relations in Australia in Bamber, G.J.,  and Landsbury, R.D (eds).  International and Comparative Employment Relations.  Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Australia (pp 110-142).

Gollan, P. (2003). All talk but no voice: Employee voice at the eurotunnel call centre. Economic and Industrial Democracy 24:509-541.

 

Thesis

Idrus, D. (2001). An examination of the contending factors shaping the role of state in Malaysian industrial relations. Department of Management, Stirling.  Unpublished PhD Thesis, Stirling.

Kougiannou, K. (2013).  Effective Joint Consultative Committee: An Exploration on the Role of trust and justice. Durham thesis. Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6911/

 

Internet source

Mohamed, D.M. (1991). The way forward Vision 2020. Retrieved from Wawasan 2020: http://www.wawasan2020.com/vision/

Utusan Online. (2010). Those who drag sultan into politics should apologise–Muhyidin. Retrieved from http://www.utusan.com.

 

 

Conference Proceeding

Awang, S. (2010). Public sector trade unionism in Malaysia: a practical explanation. Conference proceeding in 7th International Industrial Relations Asociation Congress, Bali, Indonesia 20-23 September 2010.

Goodijk, R. (2010).  Social partnership in Europe: some reflection.  University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Paper presented on 29 July 2010 at the Regional Conference on Partnership Between Industry & Community, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

 

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