The relationship between worker involvement factor and cleaner production factor towards green manufacturing performance
Green production in industries has been increasing significantly in the last few years in Malaysia and now is considered to be a mainstream challenge for organizations. In addition, the awareness is due to several factors including sustainability of the company as well as a green policy introduced b...
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Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN)
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8560/ |
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| Summary: | Green production in industries has been increasing significantly in the last few years in Malaysia and now is
considered to be a mainstream challenge for organizations. In addition, the awareness is due to several factors including
sustainability of the company as well as a green policy introduced by the government. Green manufacturing is considered
as a form of cleaner production processes with optimization approach. However, studies related to green manufacturing
practices are still insufficient because of unexposed to green technologies in production and low employee commitment.
To address the gap, this study focuses on the factors involved in green production performance from Malaysia context. The
two factors are worker involvement and cleaner production that significantly reported to have positive impact on green
production performance. The companies selected are among electric and electronic manufacturer with ISO 14000
environment management systems and standards, waste electrical and electronic equipment in Johor as the basic criteria for
the implementation of green practices. The study employed survey method adapted from previous studies and respondents
were among the production engineers, managers and quality assurance personnel. The total sample size is 90 respondents.
The study provides the scale to measure green practices and tested two developed hypotheses. The study confirmed cleaner
production factor is the most influential factor with 61.2% of the factor explained the influence on green production
performance compared with worker involvement factor (60.6%). Hence, the company should set the stage for cleaner
production activities, in order to ensure collaboration and participation from the workers. Future research should include
different sectors to enable comparative studies. A larger sample would also allow a detailed cross-sector comparison. |
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