A Framework for Lean Green Higher Education (Lghe) for Wealth Generation (S/O 14180)
Generating wealth is becoming one of the important strategy for public universities as the allocation from the federal government for their operating expenditures has been reduced drastically. In fact, this strategy has been clearly outlined in the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025. Despite thi...
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| Format: | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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UUM
2021
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| Online Access: | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31569/1/14180.pdf https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31569/ |
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| Summary: | Generating wealth is becoming one of the important strategy for public universities as the allocation from the federal government for their operating expenditures has been reduced drastically. In fact, this strategy has been clearly outlined in the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025. Despite this significant reduction of source of income, the universities have to find a way to overcome this challenge by becoming more efficient and effective in their services to the stakeholders. One way to be more efficient is by becoming lean organization. Lean universities will remove the existing waste or non-value added activities in many aspects in the universities' operations, which would yield higher return and savings. In the meantime, by becoming lean universities, the challenges of Industrial Revolution 4.0 can be overcome as well. Lean is the foundation for an organization to be agile which the main requirement for sustainability in future organization is. In addition to lean, universities have also the responsibility to protect the environment. As a matter of fact, lean and green practices share the same objective - that is to reduce waste. Hence, waste reduction initiative is expected to mediate the relationship between lean and green towards the organizational performance. However, studies on lean and green universities is rather scarce. Even though there are evidences that these two concepts can in fact work together, the synergy between the two concepts has yet to be discovered. Hence, further studies in this area is deemed timely, especially in the education sector. The ultimate objective of this study is to develop a model known as Lean Green Higher Education (LGHE) in Malaysia. The quantitative research design approach that utilizes structural equation modelling (SEM) was adopted to achieve the objectives. The findings show that the lean and green practices have positive relationships with the waste reduction initiatives which improve the Public Higher Education Institution performances in term of economic, environmental and social aspects. The established model is beneficial theoretically as well as practically as a guiding framework for LGHE initiatives. The framework is expected to assist universities facing the current challenges particularly in generating their wealth |
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