Critical success factors structural model for energy management of Malaysia public universities
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2016-08
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Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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Universities are increasingly consuming energy to support various activities. A large population of staff and students in Malaysian universities has led to excessive energy consumption which directly gives an impact to the environment. Thus, Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education insisted all parties involved to take the initiatives to reduce energy consumption. Frequent commentaries in the literature have stated by identifying Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and continually measured using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) will ensure successful effective performance for the organization. However, formal relationship between them have not been defined and established. This study intended to identify the CSFs group and CSFs for energy management (EM) towards a sustainable university and to determine the relationship between the identified CSFs group for EM with the KPIs towards a sustainable university, simultaneously developing the CSFs structural model. The first objective is achieved through a thoroughly review of literature, followed by experts interview to verify the CSFs group and CSFs gained from literature review, then questionnaire survey which involve five research universities in Malaysia. 650 questionnaires were distributed with only 222 sets were completed. The first objective was analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Science 19 (SPSS 19) which examine internal consistency reliability including Cronbach’s Alpha, construct validity, factor analysis and lastly mean and standard deviation to see the importance of each CSFs. According to the results, five CSFs group with 23 CSFs for EM were identified which are; top management support, comprehensive EM team, awareness, strategic maintenance management and good relationship among stakeholders. Then, in order to achieve objective two, findings obtained from first objective was used. The Partial Least Square- Structural Equation Modeling 3.0 (PLS-SEM 3.0) was applied to analyze the data. The analysis was carried out in two stages which are the measurement model analysis and the structural model analysis. The assessment of measurement model has gone through the process of reliability and validity resulted in the removal of several items due to the indicator loading value below than the suggested value. In addition, several items from KPIs were removed due to high collinearity issues such as perfect correlation of items. The second step of the model assessment is evaluating the structural model, which demonstrated explanatory and predictive power. The result of the assessment support the hypotheses that only two CSFs group namely strategic maintenance management and top management support have significant relationship with KPIs towards a sustainable university. Lastly the findings have been confirmed with experts. In aspect of acceptance level of the findings in structural model, most of the experts agreed that the findings obtained are in-line with current scenarios in Malaysian universities
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Thesis (Ph.D (Facilities Management))
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Power resources -- Management, Energy consumption