Maisarah Mohd. Taib is a Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences (KIRKHS), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). She first joined the university as a Matriculation Teacher at the Centre for Foundation Studies (CFS), IIUM in 2010 and in 2015 she joined the Department of Psychology, IIUM as a Lecturer.
Her research area concerns with the evaluative standards of the personnel selection procedures ranging from issues related to psychometric properties i.e. the reliability, validity and utility of personnel selection methods to the non-psychometric properties, namely, job candidate perception and recruiter acceptance of methods used in recruitment and personnel selection process. She has researched the use of technology-mediated employment interview in recruitment and selection, and she plans to expand her research to other types of selection methods like personality test and computer adaptive testing. She also has a research interest in the area of scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology.
Maisarah's doctoral research explores Malay personality traits using a lexical method. The aim of her doctoral degree is to produce a locally-developed work-based personality test that can be used by organisations in Malaysia for human resource and organisational functions.

• Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Applied Linguistics - Industrial/ Organisational Psychology

ADVANCED STATISTICS AND RESEARCH METHODS	2019/2020
BASIC COMMUNICATION	2012/2013 2011/2012
BASIC PSYCHOLOGY	2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012 2010/2011
BASIC RESEARCH METHODS & REPORT WRITING	2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012 2010/2011
EXPERIMENTAL AND NON-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS	2024/2025
FINAL YEAR PROJECT	2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY	2015/2016
INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY	2020/2021 2019/2020
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING	2024/2025 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020
INTERNSHIP IN INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY I	2025/2026 2021/2022
INTERNSHIP IN INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY II	2022/2023
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY	2016/2017 2015/2016
IOP: ISLAMIC, CROSS-CULTURAL AND MALAYSIAN LEGAL PERSPECTIVE	2020/2021
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT	2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT I	2024/2025
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATION	2025/2026
PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN RELATIONS	2015/2016
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY	2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY I	2023/2024
RESEARCH PAPER I	2020/2021
RESEARCH PAPER II	2020/2021
RESEARCH PROJECT I	2021/2022
RESEARCH PROJECT II	2022/2023
RESEARCH PROJECT IN I/O PSYCHOLOGY I	2023/2024
SEMINAR IN RESEARCH, ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGY	2021/2022 2020/2021
UNDERGRADUATE PRACTICUM	2015/2016

Exploring Interviewing in Personnel Selection Process: A Grounded Theory Analysis. Exploring Interviewing In Personnel Selection Process: A Grounded Theory Analysis. Ph.D In Progress Main Supervisor

Development and validation of adolescent digital well-being scale. Development And Validation Of Adolescent Digital Well-Being Scale. Ph.D In Progress Main Supervisor

The Role of Strategic Decisions and Moral Values in Influencing Employers' Intention to Pay a Living Wage. The Role Of Strategic Decisions And Moral Values In Influencing Employers' Intention To Pay A Living Wage. Ph.D In Progress Co-supervisor

Completed

2021 - 2022	RESTORING SOUL IN THE STUDY OF SELF IN PSYCHOLOGY: AN APPLIED MAQASID APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL POLICIES
2016 - 2018	Effect of Employment Interview Structure on Applicants' Reactions
2010 - 2011	Applicants' Reaction to Interview Structure/Self Monitoring as Moderator

On-Going

2025 - Present	Development of a Soul-centered Psychological Research Framework: An Islamic Epistemological Approach
2021 - Present	Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology: An Islamic Perspective

Articles

2025	“Should I pay a living wage?” A systematic review on employers’ decision from an organisational justice perspective. Intellectual Discourse, 33 (3) pp. 939-965
2025	Putting an Islamic scholar’s hat on psychologist: a framework for integrating Islamic concepts into psychological research. Asian Journal of Islamic Psychology, 2 (1) pp. 1-17

Conference or Workshop Items

2022	Restoring soul in the study of self in psychology: an applied maqasid approach to educational policies. In: Strategic Research Programme (SRP2020) Symposium,
2014	Applicants’ reactions to technology-mediated interview: a hybrid thematic analysis. In: Global Conference of Business and Social Science Development (GCBSS 2014),
2011	Social psychology : a critical analysis from Islamic and scientific perspectives and application in industrial/organizational psychology. In: 3rd Conference of International Muslim Psychologists Association (IAMP) ,
2010	A systematic review of the influence of technology-mediated employment interview on applicant reactions from 2000-2010. In: The 2nd International Conference on the Roles of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Engineering (ICoHSE 2010) ,

Book Sections

2012	Industrial and organisational psychology in Malaysia: a review of research areas and research variables. In: Pearson , ISBN: 9789673492077, pp. 75-110
2012	Industrial and organisational psychology in Malaysia: a review of research areas and research variables. In: Pearson , ISBN: 9789673492077, pp. 75-110

Monograph

Applicant reaction to technology-mediated employment interview: a hybrid thematic analysis. In: Unpublished,