The relationship between work ethics and job performance among Generation Y employees at a public sector in Kota Samarahan/ Ellyn Ignatius… [et al.]

In 1982, Tun Dr Mahathir introduced the Look East Policy which had attracted a lot of investors from Japan. At the same time, this policy also taught Malaysian of work ethics of the Japanese’s. As the result, it has developed within Malaysian the sense of performing their task to their utmost best. Although some senior citizens have bitter memories of the Japanese occupation, Malaysian has to learn from Japanese, how they rebuilt their country after World War 2 (Murty, 2018).
Currently, Malaysia is gearing up towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) which will bring with it big impact. For example, the IR 4.0 will change how we
live, work and communicate with one another (Shahroom & Hussin, 2018). Hence, this revolution will change the way employee’s environment in every industry. For example, employees are at the different places still can communicate by virtual through Microsoft Skype Adobe’s Connect or Goggle’s Hangouts.