Validation of a Research Instrument for Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) for Malaysia Manufacturing Set-Up
This article provide an empirical evidence on the validity of a questionnaire designed to assess safety leadership, as well as safety knowledge-attitude-behaviour (Safety KAB) within Malaysia’s manufacturers which fall under small and medium (S & M) entrepreneurship. The questionnaire’s items w...
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| author | SYAZWAN SYAH ZULKIFLY Mohd Rafee Baharudin Muhammad Razif Mahadi Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail Nor Halim Hasan |
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| description | This article provide an empirical evidence on the validity of a questionnaire designed to assess safety leadership, as well as safety knowledge-attitude-behaviour (Safety KAB) within Malaysia’s manufacturers which fall under small and medium (S & M) entrepreneurship. The questionnaire’s items were adapted from earlier research conducted in other study contexts. First, modified fuzzy delphi method (FDM) was applied for the research to obtain expert’s consensus regarding the content validity of all items. With some modifications to suit Malaysia’s SME manufacturing setting, the 5 point Likert-scale questionnaire consisting 42 items for measuring safety leadership and safety KAB were finalised. Subsequently, it was distributed to 100 production operators from the manufacturing S& M enterrpises in the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) of Malaysia for pilot testing, 95 respondents had answered. They returned the questionnaires and 89 were best to be chosen for further procedures.The determined Cronbach’s alpha values were more than 0.90 for all items representing those variables, indicating that the questionnaire possessed high reliability and internal consistency. Subsequently, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) employing principal component analysis (PCA) extraction and varimax rotation was performed to determine the construct validity. According to the PCA results, each item was retained as all the factor loadings were above the decided cut-off value, which is 0.65. Henceforth, the questionnaire is considered valid and reliabile to be used by future researchers.
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| spelling | doaj-art-e05c55e8ceac482aba67c0872b35aef42024-11-26T13:21:43ZengInternational Research Alliance for Sustainable Development - iRASDiRASD Journal of Management2709-84432709-84512021-06-013110.52131/jom.2021.0301.0023Validation of a Research Instrument for Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) for Malaysia Manufacturing Set-UpSYAZWAN SYAH ZULKIFLY0Mohd Rafee Baharudin1Muhammad Razif Mahadi2Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail3Nor Halim Hasan4UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIAUniversiti Putra MalaysiaUniversiti Putra MalaysiaUniversiti Putra MalaysiaMinistry of Human Resource MalaysiaThis article provide an empirical evidence on the validity of a questionnaire designed to assess safety leadership, as well as safety knowledge-attitude-behaviour (Safety KAB) within Malaysia’s manufacturers which fall under small and medium (S & M) entrepreneurship. The questionnaire’s items were adapted from earlier research conducted in other study contexts. First, modified fuzzy delphi method (FDM) was applied for the research to obtain expert’s consensus regarding the content validity of all items. With some modifications to suit Malaysia’s SME manufacturing setting, the 5 point Likert-scale questionnaire consisting 42 items for measuring safety leadership and safety KAB were finalised. Subsequently, it was distributed to 100 production operators from the manufacturing S& M enterrpises in the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) of Malaysia for pilot testing, 95 respondents had answered. They returned the questionnaires and 89 were best to be chosen for further procedures.The determined Cronbach’s alpha values were more than 0.90 for all items representing those variables, indicating that the questionnaire possessed high reliability and internal consistency. Subsequently, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) employing principal component analysis (PCA) extraction and varimax rotation was performed to determine the construct validity. According to the PCA results, each item was retained as all the factor loadings were above the decided cut-off value, which is 0.65. Henceforth, the questionnaire is considered valid and reliabile to be used by future researchers. https://www.journals.internationalrasd.org/index.php/jom/article/view/229Safety leadershipSafety knowledgeSafety attitudeSafety behaviour |
| spellingShingle | SYAZWAN SYAH ZULKIFLY Mohd Rafee Baharudin Muhammad Razif Mahadi Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail Nor Halim Hasan Validation of a Research Instrument for Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) for Malaysia Manufacturing Set-Up iRASD Journal of Management Safety leadership Safety knowledge Safety attitude Safety behaviour |
| title | Validation of a Research Instrument for Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) for Malaysia Manufacturing Set-Up |
| title_full | Validation of a Research Instrument for Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) for Malaysia Manufacturing Set-Up |
| title_fullStr | Validation of a Research Instrument for Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) for Malaysia Manufacturing Set-Up |
| title_full_unstemmed | Validation of a Research Instrument for Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) for Malaysia Manufacturing Set-Up |
| title_short | Validation of a Research Instrument for Safety Leadership and Safety Knowledge-Attitude-Behaviour (KAB) for Malaysia Manufacturing Set-Up |
| title_sort | validation of a research instrument for safety leadership and safety knowledge attitude behaviour kab for malaysia manufacturing set up |
| topic | Safety leadership Safety knowledge Safety attitude Safety behaviour |
| url | https://www.journals.internationalrasd.org/index.php/jom/article/view/229 |
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