TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Impact of Minimum Wage Order on Employment in Langkawi Hotels
AU - Ahmad, Rozila AU - Zainol, Nor Azimin AU - Omar, Hamimi 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 30
SP  - 7172
EP  - 7177
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.7172.7177
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.7172.7177
KW  - Developing country
KW  -minimum wage
KW  -employment
KW  -female
KW  -human resource management
KW  -hotel
AB  - The hotel industry is susceptible to environmental changes such as changes in law and regulations.
In Malaysia, the hotel industry is afflicted by the increasing labour cost due to the implementation of a national
minimum wage policy that started in 2012. As in other countries, the labour cost increased has affected
organization’s employment practices. Despite being a labour intensive industry, literature on human resources
issues focusing on Malaysian hotel industry in relation to Minimum Wage Order (MWO) is scarce. The hotel
industry is labour intensive and many of its employees are minimum wage earners. Thus, it is crucial to
investigate and discuss how the policy affects hotel organizations employment practices. For this purpose,
twenty Langkawi hotel managers were interviewed. This study discovered that the impact of MWO varies and
it is influenced by the hotel’s volume of business. Contradictory to the literature, it does not affect the
employment of female in the workforce. This study contributes to human resource management literature by
giving an insight to the impact of MWO on employment in hotels in a developing country. Besides adding
number of literatures related to MWO and human resource issues, it may also serve as guide for the hotel
managers in other developing countries that are new to MWO.
ER  -