Air pollution

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2015/09/02/air-quality-in-peninsular-malaysia/

Based on the articles (New Straits Times):
https://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/04/141345/pollution-and-its-effect-productivity

Issue:  

The health effects of air pollution are apparent but less known is the psychological effect (behaviour and performance in workplace). Therefore, the issue is impact from air pollution towards the productivity of workers at workplace.

Evidence:

1) The impact of air pollution makes people less engaged at work and more deviant.
2) Air pollution leads to a decrease in self-control resource (an obstacle to achieve the organization’s goal or a reduction of employees’ commitment)
3) Air pollution not only negatively affect levels of oxygen and glucose in the blood, it can also drain our self-control resources psychologically, causing insomnia, anxiety or depression.)
4) Government had to close schools in areas that is affected by the pollution due to health concerns and their safety.

Conclusion: 

Organization needs to provide effective ways or policies to tackle the air pollution issue to increase the productivity or workers.


Evaluating evidence (Source evidence) ; 
1) Online research or the Internet (articles from the well-known news website – New Straits Times)        
2) Research studies (by the National University of Singapore’s Business)        
3) Personal observation (individual perception in articles)

https://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/04/141345/pollution-and-its-effect-productivity

https://era.org.mt/en/Pages/Sources-and-Health-Effects-of-air-pollution.aspx

Youtube :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIxIquW9h3M

TEEN SUICIDE

Website link: https://www.worldofbuzz.com/20yo-straight-a-seremban-student-

jumps-off-buildings-14th-floor-due-to-depression/

Issue:

This article mainly talked about a 20-year-old student from Seremban who is a

bright student and aspired to be a teacher, had tragically killed herself by jumping

down from the 14th floor of an apartment building.The issue here is what caused

the girl to commit suicide.  

Reason:

Like most of the suicider, she was suffering from stress and depression and had a

philosophical desire to die. Because of depression and stress for a long time, she

could not handle with this situation anymore causing her to give up her life.  She

was also afraid that she will disappoint her parents because she could not catch

up with her studies in school. All these pressure within herself had caused severe

depression within her, thinking that she is not good enough thus create negative

thoughts had lead her to this suicidal decision.

Evaluating evidence:

According to HealthDay News, about 20% of more than 67,000 students surveyed

tried or committed suicide because of stress and depression. They committed

suicide because they could not cope with it and they find it very difficult to overcome

stress and depression. The researcher,Liu also said that many of the students

suffering from mental health problems don’t seek help. This worsen the situation

of the individual by keeping everything by themselves and not sharing it out.

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/09/10/study-over-20-percent-of-college-

students-consider-suicide-due-to-stress/

Conclusion:
Stress and depression will cause suicide because nowadays teenagers find it hard

to withstand the stress of study. At the same time, they want to achieve good results

in order to satisfy and please their parents too. Suicide has already became a hot

topic in the bulletin, therefore friends, parents, relatives, teachers have to keep

an eye and look out on teenagers especially, so that suicide rate will not

increase among the years. This is because we can fake our appearance

to be happy, but actually deep down we are facing depression and stress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRy0PdqPhJU