Managing Pressuring Eco-System Influencing Media Workers’ Well-Being in Malaysian Creative Industries

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200225.134How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Muslim, media worker, well-being, creative industries

Abstract

Working in an eco-system that dominantly targeting at wealth creation often force workers to face many forms of pressure and sacrifices. The situations worsen in the private sector of media industry as media workers in creative industries work for long exhaustive hours that leads to imbalance and unhealthy lifestyle including emotional wellbeing, which in the long run involved in serious health issues. This paper therefore intends to find out the influence of eco-system of a workplace influencing Muslim media practitioners’ wellbeing. To what extend does the environment at a workplace influence Muslim media practitioners’ life and job performance. How do they negotiate the environment, their work and religious life at workplace? Interviews among Muslim media managers in Malaysia discovered that leadership, time management, and work culture are key factors ensuring healthy eco-system for Muslim media workers in creative media industries.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rosidayu Sabran
AU  - Nur Kareelawati Abd Karim
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/03
TI  - Managing Pressuring Eco-System Influencing Media Workers’ Well-Being in Malaysian Creative Industries
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 617
EP  - 621
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200225.134
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200225.134
ID  - Sabran2020
ER  -