This paper seeks to review the literature trends on employee performance publications in the recent 5 years (2018-2022) using bibliometric analysis. 1338 full-paper journal articles that were downloaded indexed by SCOPUS have been analysed. The selection criteria also include the recent 5 years publication from 2018- 2022, with English only language. It was found that Indonesia, China, USA, India and Malaysia have been the top country producing employee productivity research articles and Journal of Frontiers in Psychology has the highest publications among other top journals. Employee productivity in terms of country wise, Malaysia still has a long way to climb the ladder and be at par with the top-notch countries.

This paper seeks to review Financial Stress literature. Using bibliometric analysis, 690 full-paper articles from an open access journals indexed by SCOPUS have been selected. The selection criteria also include the recent five years publication from 2018- 2022, with English only language. It was found that USA have been the top country producing financial stress research articles and Journal of Affective Disorders has the highest publications among other top journals. Financial Stress Country wise, Malaysia still has a long way to climb the ladder and be at par with the top-notch countries.

Crowdfunding refers to a method of raising money from a large number of people where each individual provides a small money for a specific project through crowdfunding platform. To make crowd pledge and sustain the project, it is important to promote and publicize the project on a large scale over the social media. Hence, this study explores social media as a tool to promote, publicize and fund for sustainability of the crowdfunding project. In order to examine the impact of social media on the success project, this study will focus on the project owner’s activities and connectivity with selected social media. A proposed framework based on the sharing project campaign and social media connectivity is designed to predict the success outcome of a project campaign.

The recent financial and economic crisis highlights a worsening in the economics and financial situation of household to deals with debt burden, financial distress and unexpected expenses. In the context of increasing rising poverty and social inclusion a discussion on this phenomenon is required in order to identify the major factor may influence individual financial vulnerability which cause inability to assess and make effective decision regarding personal finances. This is library research where content analysis method was applied. This paper aims to identify the elements of psychological factors and its influence on financial vulnerability and proposes a conceptual model to further understand the area of research context. Besides, this paper then develop into concrete research hypotheses for future studies. Findings and discussion will serve as a useful guideline to develop comprehensive understanding on major factors related to financial vulnerability among individual especially in Malaysia. In addition, this study can be a platform and source of reference for others to propose an indicator to overcome the issues of financial vulnerability and reduce financial fragility.