scholarly journals Impact of Personality Traits on Knowledge Hiding: A Comparative Study on Technology-Based Online and Physical Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Wu
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Psychological Ownership ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Big Five Model ◽  
Knowledge Hiding ◽  
Model Algorithm

Knowledge hiding has been a variable of interest that has led to major intangible losses to organizations, especially in this pandemic era when everything has shifted to online platforms and social media. Knowledge hiding has taken a new turn into the field of knowledge management. Moreover, the major players in knowledge hiding are the personality characteristics of individuals that have now found a way of expression without coming into the spotlight. This study is a necessary one in this time of online working environments where the role of personality traits and psychological ownership has been explored to understand their impact on the knowledge hiding within the organizations of China, and furthermore, to understand what role social status plays in moderating these relationships. The sampling design used is convenient random sampling with a sample size of 298 managers. This study has used the software Smart-PLS 3.3.3 for analyzing the data. The data relied on and was validated using preliminary tests of reliability and discriminant and convergent validities using the measurement model algorithm. Further, the partial least square technique was used to find the equation modeling for the variables, with the help of a structural model algorithm using 500 iterations for bootstrapping. The findings of the current study show that the personality traits of the “BIG FIVE” model positively predict knowledge hiding, except for openness to experience. At the same time, psychological ownership plays a partial mediating role.

Impact of hedonic motivation and corporate culture on the adoption of an information system

Kybernetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imane Beqqali Hassani ◽  
Razane Chroqui ◽  
Chafik Okar ◽  
Mohamed Talea ◽  
Ahmed Ouiddad
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Least Square Method ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of corporate culture (CC) and hedonic motivation (HM) on the adoption of an information system (IS) inside a Moroccan company. To do so, the authors have combined and merged the “unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2” along with the “Nguyen and Aoyama’s model” that covers the subject of CC. Later, the authors tested the research model within a Moroccan company. Design/methodology/approach In the present work, the authors used a quantitative analysis approach. Survey data were collected through oral interviews and analysis was performed based on the “partial least square” method, over a 94 sample of direct IS users. Findings The findings of the present investigation demonstrate the reliability and the validity of the established measurement model. Concerning the structural model, results support all hypotheses but with different effect size. The conclusion that can be extracted from this study is that CC and HM are important factors in the adoption process within the Moroccan firm. Originality/value This study enhances the understanding of the major factors affecting the adoption of an IS in a developing country. While several studies on adoption have been conducted, this study’s originality and contribution lays in the examination of the rarely evaluated factors: HM and CC.

scholarly journals Perceived Confidence and Quality: Perception of Employers Towards Fresh Graduates: a Study in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.21) ◽  
pp. 437
Author(s):  
Irza Hanie Abu Samah ◽  
Aidanazima Abashah ◽  
Saraih Ummi Naiemah
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Resource Officers ◽  
Human Resource Officers

Graduates quality has become a major issue recently especially in today’s scenario. Graduates quality can be varying when it perceived by employers. Different sector of industry has different standard of quality. The interpretation of employers towards graduates counts the job placement of graduates. It is hard to standardized quality across industries. Several attributes show that competence relatedness and autonomy do influence the quality of graduates. A quantitative method was used in this study for data gathering. All items were using 10-point likert scale. The content validity of this questionnaire were reviewed by five human resource professionals, and Cronbach alpha for each item is more than 0.75 which is acceptable. Questionnaires were given to the human resource officers in the company through email. Convenient sampling was applied in this study for data collection. 50 questionnaires were distributed across manufacturing industry and services industry in Malaysia. Using Partial least square to analyze the data, this study found out that competence in communication is the same criteria which majority across industries are seeking upon graduates. Therefore, Industries that involved are manufacturing (34.38%) and services (65.63%).  Measurement model and structural model were assessed to see the relationship. It shows that perception on competence has most influenced towards quality (AVE=0.849, R2=0.734=Q2=0.443).  This study concludes that employers around the world are looking at similar attribute on graduate’s competence. This study also warrants a future research, whereby researcher could get more sample size and by doing sample which involves employers, graduates and educators.

scholarly journals CUSTOMER PERCEPTION ON SERVICE QUALITY TOWARDS TOURISM CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN MALAYSIAN MARINE TOURISM SECTOR

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 792-799
Author(s):  
Mohammad Arije ULFY ◽  
◽  
Md Suliman HOSSIN ◽  
Md Wasiul KARIM ◽  
Fatin Husna Binti SUIB ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Marine Tourism ◽  
Tourism Sector

Marine based tourism has emerged as a subject of concern in the area of ocean and coastal management. Today, demand for marine tourism has increased dramatically and is highlighted as one of the new horizons and fastest-growing sectors in the world’s tourism industry. Malaysia is indeed one of the countries with the most beautiful and diversified marine life. The fundamental purpose of this study is to examine the satisfaction of tourists towards the service quality of marine tourism in Malaysia. The development of the research framework is based on the SERVQUAL model. A total of 300 responses were received from the Klang Valley area of Malaysia. For the purpose of processing and analyzing the data, Partial Least Square (PLS-SEM) method was employed. By applying a two-step approach, the study assesses the measurement model and the structural model. Findings from the survey reveal that assurance, tangibility, empathy, reliability, and responsiveness have a significant positive relationship with customer satisfaction thus these factors describe the customer satisfaction adequately. This study would enable policymakers and tourism companies to develop policies to improve customer satisfaction by increasing the quality of service.

scholarly journals Unlocking employee’s green behavior in fertilizer industry: the role of green HRM practices and psychological ownership

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Muhammad Waqas ◽  
Farzan Yahya ◽  
Ammar Ahmed ◽  
Yasir Rasool ◽  
Li Hongbo
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Psychological Ownership ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Manufacturing Firm ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Green Behavior ◽  
Green Human Resource Management

The engineering of agrochemicals and inorganic fertilizers indirectly facilitates the emissions of NO2 and CO2. The extensive use of pesticides and inorganic chemical fertilizers has drawn the world’s attention to green practices. Grounded on the ability-motivation-opportunity (AMO) theory, we investigated the effect of green human resource management (GHRM) practices on employees’ green behavior with the mediating role of psychological ownership. We applied the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique to 279 responses acquired from the fertilizer manufacturing firm employees. The results show that GHRM practices (green competence building, green motivation enhancing, and green employee involvement practices) significantly improve employee green behavior. Additionally, GHRM practices enhance the sense of ownership of nature among employees due to which they involve themselves proactively in eco-friendly activities and behavior.

MODELING OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE BASED ON PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE - STRUCTURAL EQUATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-182
Author(s):  
Miftahuddin Miftahuddin ◽  
Retno Wahyuni Putri ◽  
Ichsan Setiawan ◽  
Rina Suryani Oktari
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Equation Modeling

Variability of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is one of the climatic features that influence global and regional climate dynamics. Missing data (gaps) in the SST dataset are worth investigating since they may statistically alter the value of the SST change. The partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach is used in this work to estimate the causality relationships between exogenous and endogenous latent variables. The findings of this study, which are significant indicators that have a loading factor value > 0.7 are as follows: i) sea surface temperature (oC) as a measure of the latent variable changes in SST, ii) wind speed (m/s) and relative humidity (%) as a measure of the latent variable of weather, and iii) air temperature (oC), long-wave solar radiation (w/m2) as a measure of climate latent variables. The size of the Rsquare value is influenced by the number of gaps. The results of the boostrapping show that the latent variables of weather and climate have a significant effect on changes in SST which are indicated by the value of tstatistics > ttabel. The structural model obtained Changes in SST (η) = -0.330 weather + 0.793 climate + ζ. The model shows that the weather has a negative coefficient, which means that the better the weather conditions, the lower the SST changes. Climate has a positive coefficient, which means that the better the climate, the SST changes will also increase. Rising sea surface temperatures caused by an increase in climate can lead to global warming, impacting El-Nino and La-Nina events.

scholarly journals Cryptocurrency Acceptance: A Case of Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5C) ◽  
pp. 28-38
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Community Group

Since the inception of the first cryptocurrency in 2008, cryptocurrency has been receiving global attention from the public, media, merchants and regulators. Although the general sentiment suggested cryptocurrencies which leverage on blockchain technology might eventually replace the paper currency as the mainstream currency, the Malaysian regulators are still unsure that a well-established cryptocurrency ecosystem can come into place anytime soon. Unfortunately, there is a lack of cryptocurrency acceptance study, particularly in Malaysia (developing country context). Hence, this paper aims to propose a research model that integrates cryptocurrency dimension antecedents with Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology2 (UTAUT2) constructs to examine the factors that influence cryptocurrency acceptance. This study employs a quantitative approach by collecting online survey questionnaire data through the means of cryptocurrency community group on social media. The survey instrument was reviewed by four experts from the field of blockchain and 36 responses have been gathered from individuals who have cryptocurrency knowledge for pilot study. To further evaluate the reliability and validity of the proposed measures, the measurement model was assessed using structural equation modeling (SEM) technique with partial least square approach (PLS). SmartPLS software was used for PLSSEM analyses. In this paper, the proposed research model contributes a high-level overview of and valuable insights into the potential cryptocurrency acceptance factors to regulatory bodies, practitioners as well as prospective cryptocurrency users. The findings of pilot study confirm that the measurement items and constructs in the proposed model are reliable and valid.

scholarly journals Keputusan Pembelian Konsumen Gerai Makanan Cepat Saji Ditinjau dari Kualitas Produk, Persepsi Harga dan Iklan

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-291
Author(s):  
Yuli Harwani ◽  
Fauziyah Fauziyah
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Inner Model

Western fast food restaurant recently becoming a solution in providing meal service for those who are busy, especially for workers, students. Fastfood considered favored for the decent taste and price. This study aims to investigate the customers’ decision on purchasing the product that is much affected by the product quality, perception on price and also advertisments. The data analysis is done for 170 closed questionaire form the McDonalds booth in Jakarta Barat using convience sampling method. The result of descriptive analysis showed that most of the customer visiting the booth is female, students and college students and in between the age of 15-21 years old. The data analysis method and the hypotheses test are utilized by Smart-PLS (Partial Least Square) to find out predictive linear relationship among the variables studied. The testing method is utilizing the Measurement Model (Outer Model) and structural model (inner model). Latent variable relationship test result indicates that prime decision on purchasing is significantly affected by perception on price. In addition, the product quality followed by advertising is significantly affected consumer purchasing decisions.

scholarly journals MEASUREMENT MODEL OF CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN MALAYSIAN UNIVERSITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Alia Abdullah Saleh ◽  
Siti Norsazlina Haron ◽  
Nur Azfahani Ahmad ◽  
Nor Eeda Ali
Keyword(s):  
Energy Management ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
The University

The increasing number of staff and students in Malaysian universities has led to consume energy excessively. The activities of the university's management to reduce the energy expenditure is critical, where critical success factors (CSFs) are the few issues that must be addressed as well as to ensure  the accomplishment of an organisation. Unfortunately, most Malaysian universities are lagging in determining the relationship of identifying CSFs for EM with KPIs towards a sustainable university. Therefore, this research focuses on critical success factors (CSFs) for energy management (EM) towards Malaysian sustainable university. This inquiry is broadened by taking a conceptual measurement model using Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The assessment demonstrates that the construct of CSFs for EM which comprises of ‘Top Management Provision’, ‘Commitment from EM Team’, ‘Planned Maintenance Management’, ‘Consciousness’ and ‘Good Relationship among Stakeholders’ were maintained and some of the indicators relate to this construct were expelled. In conclusion, the findings obtained can assist the decision maker in the university to identify the areas that need improvement in order to increase the performance of EM. This study is very beneficial to all universities, especially universities in Malaysia which practice EM. The existing guidelines also can be improved so as to be more effective and able to be applied to all universities in Malaysia.

Development and validation of multi-factor employee engagement measuring instrument: a formative measurement model

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Puneet Kumar ◽  
Nayantara Padhi
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to bring about an exhaustive measurement instrument of employee engagement and validate the same in Indian settings.Design/methodology/approachThis descriptive and cross-sectional study initiates with reviewing the available literature in the field of employee engagement to identify factors affecting and the corresponding items defining them. Following the discussion with experts and industry professionals, an instrument was, thus, obtained to administer the primary data from employees working in public and private power companies in India. The study used Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) 3 to demonstrate employee engagement as a first-order reflective and second-order formative construct. Thereafter, reliability and convergent validity were assessed to validate the instrument.FindingsThis paper conceptualized employee engagement as a multi-factor construct (nine in numbers). The factors are “Respect”, “Supervisor's support and recognition”, “Growth and development”, “Creative and challenging job”, “Job significance”, “Perceived self-worth”, “performance evaluation and recognition” and “Organizational bureaucracy”. These factors are exhaustive and collectively define employee engagement. Distortion or omission in any of these items may distort the nature of construct as well.Originality/valuePrevious studies have defined the concept of employee engagement as unidimensional and thus observe serious lacunas. This study identified employee engagement as a multi-factor construct that incorporates the exhaustive nature of the organizational setting. Not only this study adds value to the existing body of knowledge in the field of employee engagement but also specify the measurement model as a formative one concerning employee engagement.

scholarly journals MODEL STRUKTURAL HUBUNGAN BUDAYA ORGANISASI, KOMPETENSI PENGGUNA, PENGENDALIAN INTERNAL DAN KUALITAS INFORMASI AKUNTANSI PEMERINTAH DAERAH

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Rima Rachmawati
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Inner Model ◽  
The Creation

Abstract. This study aims to prove the influence of organizational culture, usercompetence and internal control to the quality of Regional Financial ManagementInformation Sistem (abbreviation=SIPKD), and to also prove the quality of SIPKDrelationship to the quality of accounting information. Survey in Garut local governmentas many as 75 of SIPKD users. Data analysis using Structural Equation Modeling(SEM) with Partial Least Square approach (PLS). The SEM PLS consists of twoevaluation; inner model and structural model. The result of the research indicate thatthere is an effect of internal control on the creation of quality SIPKD, and qualitySIPKD can influence the creation of quality accounting information. While theorganization culture and user competence is not proven to influence the creation ofquality SIPKD. Research implications can solve the problem of accounting informationsistems, especially in the local government of Garut.

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