Name: Aminah bte Ahmad
Position: Professor
Qualifications: Dip.Agric. (KPM), B.Sc., M.S. (LSU), Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison)
Department: Professional Development and Continuing Education
Areas of Specialisation: Gender & Pembangunan
Email: aminah@ace.upm.edu.my
Phone: (603) 89468225
Homepage: -

Professor Dr. Aminah Ahmad adalah Professor dalam bidang Gender dan Pembangunan di Universiti Putra Malaysia, dan Penyelaras Unit Pengajian Wanita. Beliau pernah memegang jawatan Ketua Jabatan Pemajuan Profesional dan Pendidikan Lanjutan, Fakulti Pengajian Pendidikan, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Beliau mendapat ijazah doctor falsafah Pendidikan Pengembangan dari University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Beliau telah berkhidmat sebagai pegawai akademik di Universiti Putra Malaysia sejak 1977. Penyelidikan yang beliau jalankan adalah mengkhusus kepada konflik antara peranan kerja dan keluarga, pengurusan konflik antara peranan, dan polisi mesra keluarga di tempat kerja. Beliau juga telah menghasilkan penulisan berkenaan peranan pelbagai di kalangan wanita bekerja dan pembahagian kerja berdasarkan gender di sector formal dan bukan formal. Profesor Aminah pernah dilantik sebagai pakar runding oleh Asian Development Bank bagi dua projek iaitu, Status Wanita Malaysia dalam Pembangunan dan Pendidikan Wanita di Malaysia.

Professor Dr. Aminah Ahmad is Professor of Gender and Development at Universiti Putra Malaysia, and the Coordinator of Women’s Studies Unit. She was formerly the Head of the Department of Professional Development and Continuing Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She obtained her Ph.D. in Extension Education from University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. She has served as an academic staff at University Putra Malaysia since 1977. Her current research interests include work-family role conflict, interrole conflict management, and family-friendly policies at the workplace. She has also written widely on topics pertaining to multiple roles of working women and the gender division of labour in the formal and non-formal sectors. Professor Aminah has served as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on two projects namely, The Status of Malaysian Women in Development and the Education of Women in Malaysia.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

• 2007-2009:       

Psychological Well-Being of Single-Parent Employees (Research University Grant, Project Leader)

• 2007-2009        

Family Friendly Employment Policies in Private Organizations (Ministry of Higher    Education – Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Project Leader)

• 2007-2009       

Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents from Single-Parent Families

(Ministry of Higher Education -Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Researcher)

• 2007-2009

Individual, Professional and Organizational Factors as Determinants of Career             Advancement (Research University Grant, Researcher)

• 2002-2006

Consequences of Interrole Conflict among Employed Parents (IRPA  - MOSTI, Project Leader)

PUBLICATIONS (2007-2009)

• Aminah Ahmad (2008). Job, Family and Individual Factors as Predictors of Work-Family Conflict.     The Journal of Human Resource and Adult Learning, 4 (1), 57-65.

• Aminah Ahmad (2008). Direct and Indirect Effects of Work-Family Conflict on Job Performance.       Journal of International Management Studies, 3(2), 176-180.

• Aminah Ahmad & Zoharah Omar (2008). Gender differences in work-family conflict and family- friendly employment policy practices. The International Journal of the Humanities, 6(3),          15-26.

• Ruziah Ghazali, Aminah Ahmad, Jegak Uli, Prof., Turiman Suandi and Siti Aishah Hassan (2008).   Commitment to Change among Managers in a Selected Service Organization in     Malaysia. The    International Journal of the Humanities, 6. 123-134.

• Ali Asgari, Abu Daud Silong, Aminah Ahmad & Bahaman Abu Samah (2008). The relationship         between leader-member exchange, organizational inflexibility, perceived organizational        support, interactional justice and organizational citizenship behaviour. African Journal of       Business Management, 2(8), 138-145.

• Ali Asgari, Abu Daud Silong, Aminah Ahmad & Bahaman Abu Samah (2008). The relationship         between transformational leadership behaviors, leader-member exchange and          organizational    citizenshipship behaviors. European Journal of Social Science, 6(4),    140-151.

• Ali Asgari, Abu Daud Silong, Aminah Ahmad & Bahaman Abu Samah (2008). The relationship         between organizational characteristics, task characteristics, cultural context and organizational    citizenship behaviors. European Journal of Economics, Finance and            Administrative Sciences.       

• Aminah Ahmad (2007). Work-family conflict, life-cycle stage, social support, and coping      strategies among women employees. The Journal of Human Resource and Adult           Learning, 3 (1), 70-79.

• Aminah Ahmad (2007). Family-friendly employment policy practices in the Malaysian government    and selected private organizations. The Journal of Global Business Management, 3 (1),            128-135.

• Wu Hwei Ming, Aminah Ahmad & Maimunah Ismail (2007). Antecedents of career aspirations          among women in middle management. The Journal of Global Business Management, 3      (1), 157-166.

• Aminah Ahmad (2008). Women’s Studies Unit in Universiti Putra Malaysia  In Cecilia Ng & Rashidah Shuib  (Eds)., A profile of women and gender studies in Malaysia (pp. 9-13 ). Penang: Women’s Development Research Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia

• Aminah Ahmad & Maznah Baba (2007). Work-to-family conflict among female physicians: Its          mediating role in the relationship between supervisor support and job performance. In     Rosnah Ismail, Mahmud Nazar & Nuraini M. Noor (Eds.), Women at work: Perspectives     on workplace and family (pp. 1-17). Kota Kinabalu: Universiti Malaysia Sabah Press.

• Wu Hwei Ming, Aminah Ahmad & Maimunah Ismail (2007). Towards a model of career aspiration     for women employees. In Maimunah Ismail, Abdul Lateef Abdullah @ Steven Eric Krauss,    & Ismi   Arif Ismail. (Eds.), Career development: Advancing perspective and practices           (pp. 172-195).            Serdang: Universiti Putra Malaysia.

TEACHING

• Human Resource Development

• Gender and Human Resource Development

• Gender and Development

• Program Development

• Research Method