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Assessing the Relationship of Skills and Performance: An Exploratory Study of Religious Based Cooperatives’ Board Members

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The Malaysian Cooperatives Transformation Plan or TransKom (2021–2025) intends to transform co-operative sector as the third economic engine of the nation. To realise the aspiration, responsible agencies organise retraining, upskilling, and reskilling for co-operatives’ board members, management teams, employees, and members. With Islam as the official religion of the federation, mosque co-operatives contribute importantly to economic and financial stability of mosque institutions. With the steady stream of revenue, mosques host religious and educational programmes, and support community socioeconomic aspect. Hence, the board members of mosque co-operatives must possess skills to execute the responsibilities towards achievement of underlying objectives. The study aims to ascertain the set of skills essential to mosque co-operatives’ board members, then to examine the relationship of the skills with mosque co-operatives’ performance. Using cross sectional research design, the study deploys survey to gauge the perspective of mosque co-operatives’ board members towards the underlying issues. The results reveal that there are two sets of skills essential for board members, and both significantly influence the performance of mosque co-operatives. The outcomes of the study shall benefit strategic stakeholders in Islamic religious administrative, especially in building build back better society, revitalise economic and social sector during the post pandemic covid-19 era.

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The authors would like to express appreciation for the research grant support from the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education’s Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS 1/2015) and from the Lembaga Zakat Selangor-Tabung Amanah Zakat Multimedia University- Yayasan Universiti Multimedia through the Fi Sabilillah Research Development Grant Scheme (FRDGS 1/2015; 1/2018; 1/2021)

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  2. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia

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  3. Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia

    Norzarina Md Yatim, Md Shukor Masuod, Al Mansor Abu Said & Noridayu Abdullah Sani

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Abdullah Salim, A.S., Mustafa, M.A., Yatim, N.M., Masuod, M.S., Abu Said, A.M., Abdullah Sani, N. (2024). Assessing the Relationship of Skills and Performance: An Exploratory Study of Religious Based Cooperatives’ Board Members. In: Khamis, R., Buallay, A. (eds) AI in Business: Opportunities and Limitations. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 516. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49544-1_36

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