MALAYSIA’S PUSH TO EXPAND ITS MIDDLE CLASS NEEDS HR EXPERTISE SAY PERSONNEL MANAGERS
January 1st, 2018
THE MALAYSIAN government should use human resources expertise to achieve its goal of sustainably growing the country’s middle-class workforce, creating high-skilled jobs and making sure such jobs are accessible to educated Malaysians, HR specialists have argued.
Using HR expertise is important for the government – which is facing an election this year (2018) – tied as it is to an official plan to increase the size of the country’s middle class from the current 40% of the country’s 31.19 million population to 45% by 2020, according to the ‘Eleventh ...
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