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Human Capital Strategy for Support Staff in Malaysia Public University

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Employee reduction issues are increasing especially in universities. Therefore, to overcome the problems faced in reducing the workforce at universities. The study aims to identify employees' experience of employee reduction during university services, identifying the experience in the reduction of the employee may affect the emotional state of the employees at the university and determine the employee reduction strategy affects the retention performance of employees at the university. The quantitative method will be used in this study to obtain the findings. This study is expected to contribute to the employee reduction strategy that affects the performance of retention of employees at the university and helps to improve the retention performance of public university’s support employees.
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In-Text Citation: (Habidin, Yee, Fuzi, & Muhamad, 2018)
To Cite this Article: Habidin, N. F., Yee, S. O. Y., Fuzi, N. M., & Muhamad, U. A. (2018). Human Capital Strategy for Support Staff in Malaysia Public University. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(10), 1397–1403.