Developing Manpower Requirement Projection for the Sarawak Economy

• Main Authors: Mohd Khairul Hisyam, Hassan, Muhammad Asraf, Abdullah, Audrey, Liwan
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: UNIMAS Publisher, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2019
• Subjects: HB Economic Theory
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31425/1/Cover%20page%20Jan2019.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31425/2/Developing%20Manpower%20Requirement%20Projection%20for%20the%20Sarawak%20Economy.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31425/

Manpower are the most important management tools for growth and level in nation economic. Forecasting is defined that skills are being requirements to supply. In other word, facilitate human resources for planning and budgeting. Also be able to determine the demand for personnel in types of disciplines. Therefore, manpower requirement in Sarawak particularly in economic performance is very important for the regional planning. It is novel and very helpful in enhancing the regional or state level economic performance, which has been less given attention in the previous studies. Those studies tend to forecast the manpower requirement at the national level particularly in the main sectors or industries which is not showing the manpower requirement and economic performance of the economic regions or state level that have been introduced by the government of Malaysia. The manpower projection will give the detail information and contribution of the potential for each sector in this economy to the policymakers for the economic planning purposes. So, by looking the important of this forecasting in economic planning purposes for Sarawak economy, policymakers should attain detail information on the potential and opportunities in each of economic sector that should be emphasized. By forecasting the manpower requirement for Sarawak economy, the analysis will give policymakers more information about the contribution of each sector in Sarawak economy. In summary, the results suggest that manpower projection is very important in planning and policy information for the future development.