Curriculum Vitae

DR. NUR SYAZWANI BINTI AHMAD

Senior Lecturer
  • Office of The Executive Director
    Centre for Foundation Studies in Science
  • syazwani.ahmad
  • 0376975974

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • Ph.D, (Business Administration)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)
  • MBA(FIN.), (Business Administration (Finance))
    Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
  • BBA, (Business Administration)
    Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • Committee Members
    15 Jan 2024 - 10 May 2025 (Pre-Accounting, Centre for Foundation Studies in Science)
  • Committee Members
    01 Jan 2024 - 31 Jan 2025 (Pre-Accounting, Centre for Foundation Studies in Science)
  • Committee Members
    07 Dec 2024 - 07 Dec 2024 (National)
  • Project Member
    14 Oct 2024 - 17 Oct 2024 (National)
  • Committee Members
    17 Oct 2024 - 17 Oct 2024 (National)
  • Task Force Member
    01 Feb 2024 - 23 Apr 2024 (Director Office, Centre for Foundation Studies in Science)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
  1. Ahmad, Nur & Bahri, Shamshul & Fauzi, Ali. (2022). The process of decentralization through mobile instant messaging (MIM): a case study of event management in an organization. Journal of Systems and Information Technology. 24. 10.1108/JSIT-11-2021-0257.
  2. Shamshul Bahri, Ali Fauzi, Nur Syazwani Ahmad, (2021). A communication overload scale for use with mobile instant messaging in work management, Digital Business. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.digbus.2021.100003.
Scopus
  1. Ahmad N.S., Bahri S., Fauzi A. (2023). Does Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) affect power redistribution? Evidence from a Malaysian school management organization, Social Sciences and Humanities Open. 7(1). doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100495
  2. Ahmad N., Bahri S., Fauzi A. (2020). Reinforcing The Status Quo in Organizations Through Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM), Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 12(3), 82-103. doi:10.17705/1pais.12304
  3. Bahri S., Fauzi A., Ahmad N.S. (2020). A communication overload scale for use with mobile instant messaging in work management, Digital Business. 1(1). doi:10.1016/j.digbus.2021.100003
Other Publications
  1. Ahmad, NS (2024, Jan 7th), WhatsApp: A double-edged sword in workplace communication — Syazwani Ahmad, Malay News, https://www.malay.news/whatsapp-a-double-edged-sword-in-workplace-communication-syazwani-ahmad/ - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
  2. Ahmad, NS (2024, Jan 9th), Balancing Act With Technology, The Sun, Page 11 - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
  3. Ahmad, NS (2024, Jan 9th). Balancing Act With Technology, The Sun, https://thesun.my/opinion-news/balancing-act-with-technology-KP11961957 - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
  4. Ahmad, NS, (2024, Jan 7th) WhatsApp: A Double Edged Sword In Workplace Communication, New Life News Agency. https://my.lifenewsagency.com/2024/01/07/whatsapp-a-double-edged-sword-in-workplace-communication/ - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
  5. Ahmad, NS, (2024, Jan 9th). WhatsApp: A Double-Edged Sword In Workplace Communication — Dr Syazwani Ahmad, Code Blue, https://codeblue.galencentre.org/2024/01/09/whatsapp-a-double-edged-sword-in-workplace-communication-dr-syazwani-ahmad/ - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
  6. Ahmad, NS. (2024, Jan 11th), Do Messaging Apps Erode Personal, Professional Boundaries? New Straits Times. https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/letters/2024/01/999720/do-messaging-apps-erode-personal-professional-boundaries - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
  7. Ahmad, NS. (Jan, 14th). Do not let WhatsApp affects your work-life balance. Apa Khabar TV. https://apakhabartv.com/2024/01/14/do-not-let-whatsapp-affects-your-work-life-balance/ - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
  8. Bahri, S., Ahmad, NS., Ahmad Khan, AF., (2024, Jan 29th), Organizational communication barriers broken by WhatsApp, https://apakhabartv.com/2024/01/29/organizational-communication-barriers-broken-by-whatsapp/ - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Management Information System (Communication technology, Social Media)
  • Management Information System (Communication Overload, Wellbeing,)
  • Management (Power Relation, Power Structure,)

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2024 - 2026, Bantuan Khas Penyelidikan (BKP Special)
    Assessing the Economic and Consumption Impacts of Population Aging and Retirement Age Policies ( Co-Researcher)
  2. 2024 - 2026, Bantuan Khas Penyelidikan (BKP Special)
    Development of Digital Platform Overload Scales and Evaluating Technostress in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) among Malaysian Public Universities ( Principal Investigator(PI))

PAPER PRESENTED

POSTER PRESENTER
  1. Red Alert: The Impact of Mobile Instant Messaging Use in Managing Work on Communication Overload and Personal Well-Being, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Xi'an Jiaotong University (International) (08 Jul 2019 - 12 Jul 2019)

ACADEMIC/PROF. SERVICES

Evaluation
  1. (2025) University of Malaya Research Ethics Committee (Umrec) Committee Member, University, (Reviewer)
  2. (2025) Umreg Review, University, (Reviewer)
Mentoring
  1. (2024) Nur Amirah a'Rishah Binti Rosli, University, (Academic Advisor)
  2. (2024) Sa2 Advisor, University, (Academic Advisor)
  3. (2024) Culturave, University, (Co-curriculum Advisor)

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
  1. (2024) STUDY OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION FOR EASURING COMPETENCE AMONG CHINESE POLYTECHNIC TEACHERS, SONG JIAYING
  2. (2024) ANALYZING THE MOTIVATIONS AND CHALLENGES OF CHINESE STUDENTS PURSUING HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASEAN COUNTRIES, LIAO HAISHAN
  3. (2024) LEVERAGING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND DEEP LEARNING FOR MALAYSIAN SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION, MUHAMMAD TASNIMSYAMIM BIN ABDUL RAKI
  4. (2024) EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON POLITICAL DISCOURSE: A STUDY OF USER ENGAGEMENT AND MISINFORMATION, CHEN SIYANG
  5. (2024) EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT IN UNIVERSITIES: A CASE STUDY OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITIES, CHEN YUXI

TEACHING

Others
  1. (2024) FAG1003 - Basic Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
  2. (2024) FAG1006 - Co-Curriculum
  3. (2024) FAG1007 - Fundamentals of Management
  4. (2024) FAG1012 - Management Accounting
  5. (2024) FAG1011 - Principles of Marketing

COURSE ATTENDED

Internal / External Course
INTERNAL COURSE- ORGANIZED BY PTJ
  1. ORGANISING YOUR LEARNING MATERIALS USING SPECTRUM, Online (23 Jan 2024 - 23 Jan 2024)
  2. STARK STRATEGIES: EFFECTIVE TEACHING FOR GEN Z STUDENTS, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (26 Jul 2024 - 26 Jul 2024)
  3. ADVANCING SCHOLARS IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION (ASCEND) S3/2024, Universiti Malaya (UM) (04 Nov 2024 - 15 Nov 2024)
INTERNAL COURSE
  1. CHATGPT POPULAR TOOLS, Bilik Senat, Aras 4, Bangunan Canseleri (27 Jun 2024 - 27 Jun 2024)
  2. KURSUS ORIENTASI STAF BAHARU UNIVERSITI MALAYA 2024, Bilik Senat, Aras 4, Bangunan Canseleri (15 Aug 2024 - 16 Aug 2024)