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      Proactive measures to eradicate Malaysia’s poverty in IR4.0 era: a shared prosperity vision

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          Background: In the country’s shared prosperity vision, Malaysia aspires to uplift the bottom 40% household income group (B40) by addressing wealth and income disparities. By 2030, the nation seeks to eradicate poverty through the provision of employment opportunities and career progression plans. A grey area between the nation’s aspirations and actions in practice can be observed because the goals have not been achieved despite numerous efforts aimed at the upliftment of the B40 group. The nation is still way behind its targeted outcomes despite various policies being implemented, which could be attributed to the mismatch between government policies and that of organisational practice. Thus, this study explores the rationale of strategic government intervention in managing B40 talent in the IR4.0 era.

          Methods: A general qualitative inquiry method that used 11 semi-structured interviews was carried out with representatives of Malaysia’s policy makers’, training providers, and trainees. All Interview questions centred around measures, importance and outcomes of B40 youth training from a multi-stakeholder perspective. Data were thematically analysed in five stages using NVivo.

          Results: Training, which includes IR4.0 era digital skills, is the key to uplifting the B40 youth to eradicate poverty. Proactive measures are imperative in the success of B40 youth training towards poverty eradication.

          Conclusions: This study contributes to the existing literature and helps practitioners by addressing the current gap in Malaysia’s aspirations versus organisational practice. Stakeholders should formulate proactive strategies to ensure that the right trainees are matched with the right training providers and government policies. A linkage between government policies and industry requirements needs to be established as opposed to the present discontinuity. A structured training needs analysis should be applied through a collaboration between industries and governments. Then, B40 individuals commonly found in lower-level positions can be pooled into the career pathway towards a shift into M40.

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                Contributors
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data CurationRole: InvestigationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – Original Draft PreparationRole: Writing – Review & Editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding AcquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Supervision
                Role: Formal AnalysisRole: MethodologyRole: Visualization
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                F1000Res
                F1000Res
                F1000Research
                F1000 Research Limited (London, UK )
                2046-1402
                7 January 2022
                2021
                : 10
                : 1094
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih, Selangor, 43500, Malaysia
                [2 ]Faculty of Management, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Selangor, 63100, Malaysia
                [1 ]Faculty of Business, Curtin University Malaysia, Miri, Malaysia
                [1 ]University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
                [1 ]Faculty of Business, Curtin University Malaysia, Miri, Malaysia
                University of Nottingham Malaysia, Malaysia
                Author notes

                No competing interests were disclosed.

                Competing interests: No competing interests were disclosed.

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                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0067-8906
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1907-2915
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8651-1079
                Article
                10.12688/f1000research.73330.2
                8790706
                35237432
                5528a298-4f0e-470f-a0f7-d907dcd97174
                Copyright: © 2022 Darmalinggam D et al.

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 6 January 2022
                Funding
                Funded by: Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia
                Award ID: FRGS/1/2019/SS03/UNIM/02/1
                This work was supported by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme [grant number FRGS/1/2019/SS03/UNIM/02/1] assigned to Dr Maniam Kaliannan.
                The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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