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Study About the Awareness and Intention to Whistleblow among
Professionals-to-be
Nur Munirah Bashir Ahamed
Supervisor: Dr. Nor Raihan Mohamad
Bachelor of Accounting
School of Maritime Business and Management
The Whistleblowing Protection Act 2010 has been gazetted in Malaysia on 15 December
2010. However, it has received lots of criticisms and debates on its implementation.
Therefore, it is important to further investigate on the perception of the accounting
students on this issue. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to investigate the
awareness on the whistleblowing among university students (professional-to-be) and
the factors that contributing to practice whistleblowing and to identify the level of
knowledge about the whistleblowing among the students. Besides, while preparing this
research paper, our main aim is to examine about the attitudes among people at the
beginning of their career. This research will be conducted among the Bachelor of
Accounting students in University Of Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) and University of
Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) as they are form of social group that is just starting their
professional life. This is a good exposure as they are more open-minded and they are
in a learning process so, it is much easier to convey certain values towards them and
make them aware of the changes that need to be introduced to an organization. It
should be highlighted that, this survey is an experimental to be done towards students
that have no prior working experience. The data are going to be analyzed using Smart
PLS Software.
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