Sustainable Human Resource Management Intervention Through The Practice Of Self-Certified Medical Leave Studies Within Civil Servant Of His Majesty Brunei Darussalam Government

Atiqah Amanina, Mohammed (2021) Sustainable Human Resource Management Intervention Through The Practice Of Self-Certified Medical Leave Studies Within Civil Servant Of His Majesty Brunei Darussalam Government. [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Human resource management (HRM) intervention is an interesting topic to be explored as its suite to change, rapid development of information communication and technology, work complexities, emerging of new lifestyle and its effect towards work life behaviour. This initiative may affect employee health and safety issues as these are worthy of serious attention. It may have a cause and effect factors to the issues on sustainable work place and employee wellbeing. This study aims to explore the practice of Self-Certified Medical Leave (SCML) within the civil servant of His Majesty Brunei Darussalam. Specifically, this research is to study and explore the informant’s perspective towards the government initiative on SCML. Thus, this research aims to explore the work-related changes, the uniqueness of SCML and how it affects the performance. The related issues arise and coping strategies for tackling the issues of SCML were being discussed in this study. This research was conducted in Brunei Darussalam public service by using research onion model propose by Saunder et al., (2019); using phenomenological research philosophy, deductive approach, case study strategies, cross sectional time horizon, semistructured interview, and open-ended questionnaires Google form. 15 participants involved and data analyse using content analysis with verbatim protocol technique. Pilot study was conducted which involved 2 participants for maintaining the validity, reliability, and practicality aspects of this study. The findings of this study revealed that SCML has contributes to the well-being of the employees and improving the work-related lifestyle of the informants. From the findings, it can be concluded that the uniqueness of SCML is based on the application and approval which is fast and convenience. It can be concluded that SCML does contributes as a source of motivation to the employees. SCML also facilitates the employees to work more productive. There are still issues arises for the practice of SCML which needs to revise and improve. One of the coping strategies to overcome the issue is to have better understanding of issues within civil servant. The findings have been discussed critically and analytically with relevant literature. The findings from this research are crucial for the policy maker, organization, and the future researcher to cope with related issues. It is importance to demonstrate trustworthiness between employers and employees for SCML to work effectively. This research contributes better understanding of issues within the context of implementation of a new HRM intervention system in the organization and expand new dimension of knowledge in benefit and compensation discipline from civil servant of His Majesty Brunei Darussalam context. Recommendations and limitations of the study are also discussed.

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