The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sustainability, employee retention and innovative performance in the Malaysian manufacturing industry
List of Authors
  • Ishaq Ibrahim , Walid Abdullah Al-Suraihi

Keyword
  • Covid-19, Sustainability, Employee retention, Innovation performance, Malaysia, Manufacturing

Abstract
  • This study aims to suggest a framework to the Malaysian manufacturing industry helping the companies to overcome the pandemic, importantly passing this crisis with minimum effect on the countries and economies. The most three important indicators of the country’s economy were examined in this study predicted by Pandemic-COVID-19. Thus, quantitative method was employed in this research through collecting online survey from 574 employees in the Malaysian manufacturing industry. The data analyzed via SPSS and AMOS for both descriptive analysis and hypothesis testing. The findings of this are, Pandemic COVID-19 negatively influencing the sustainability, employee retention and innovative performance of the Malaysian manufacturing industry. In addition, the research recommended future researcher to explore each of the model’s variables for detailed models to be implemented in the different countries and industries.

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