Innovation and Creativity in Business

What are the categories of Intellectual Property (IP) that can be registered in Malaysia? Taking the example of your own project, explain two (2) IP items that are possible for you to register.

Note: Please refer to main website for IP registration in Malaysia:

Support your answer with evidence from literature and/or appropriate examples. Cite your sources accordingly if it is not your own words. (700 Words)

a) What personal and situation factors can affect their creativity as students according to Goodman (2012)

b) Give practical examples to support your explanation

Case Study

Emefa Jewellery dealers in gold ornaments have been in existence for the past 15 years. They have been making profits which has enabled them to stay afloat in this hard economy. Due to clear goals and positive instrumental values of the company, staff have a high identification with the company. In the ornaments making business, there are always new technologies being produced with the aim of making life easier, effective and ornaments unique to the purchaser. In the past quarter, there have been occurrences of thievery and management has accused staff of this wrongdoing. Management has decided to take a percentage off the salary of staff in order to accommodate for the losses incurred during the thievery. This led to a conflict between management and staff. The staff resorted to sit down strike to protest the decision by management. Staff have also complained about the inconsiderate nature in which management go about forming teams and groups to work on marketing and sales of the jewellery being made without a consideration of the right process.

a). What is organizational commitment? 

b). Explain 4 challenges that Emefa Jewellery will have to overcome as a company. 

c). Suggest two (2) ways in which management can resolve the conflict between it and employees with examples.

d). Discuss the appropriate stages of group formation that Emefa Jewellery will have to consider in the future.

1. How can HR professionals demonstrate that they provide value in terms of return on investment for an organization?
2. How do an organization’s vision, mission, and strategywork together to help organizations survive and thrive, and what is the role recruitment and selection plays in this? Clearly define each of the terms within your answer.
3. Discuss the impact of demographics and current socioeconomic conditions on organizational recruitment and selection practices for organizations.
4. Discuss the impact of demographics and current socioeconomic conditions on organizational recruitment and selection practices for organizations.
5. Can an invalid selection test be reliable? Can an unreliable selection test be valid? Explain, and provide examples of each instance to illustrate.
6. Compare and contrast content, construct, and criterion related validity strategies? Provide an example of each approach
7. Define, compare, contrast, and provide examples of fairness and bias as used in the context of HR selection
8. Would the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibit an employer from putting in place a selection system that favoured women over men in the hiring process? Could such discrimination ever be justified under the Charter?
9. What are the prohibited grounds of employment discrimination in Alberta, define prohibited grounds of employment discrimination?
10. What does it mean to accommodate someone to the point of undue hardship?
11. Why is basing hiring practices on a “gut feeling” risky business?
12. Why is a job analysis essential to the defence of any selection process or selection system?
13. What is the relationship of a “position” to a “job” and a “job” to a “job family”?
14. What are the major differences between a competency-based selection system, and one developed through job analysis?
15. What is a competency? Defend your answer
16. If you were limited in selecting employees based on only one of the four types of performance discussed in this chapter, which one would you choose? Why?
17. Why is it important to understand performance as part of the recruitment and selection process?
18. Define task performance, contextual performance, adaptive behaviour, and counterproductive behaviour. Discuss the role each of these plays in developing a recruitment and selection system.
19. List and explain each of the performances defined in Campbell’s performance taxonomy