Model Structural Equation Research Articles

Investigation on military hospital nurses about esprit de corps

This study analyses the relationship between job discomfort and burnout on the intention to leave nurses and the moderating effect of Esprit de corps between job discomfort and intention to leave. The study used a sample of 220 voluntary nurse respondents from a total population of 606 nurses at the Hospital Gatot Subroto Jakarta. The sampling technique uses the 5% Slovin Formula. Data collection is based on survey techniques and questionnaires. Moderation analysis is used in solving the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) equation model using SmartPLS 3. The findings show that: 1) work discomfort has a significant effect on the intention to leave/quit nurses; 2) work fatigue has a significant effect on the intention to leave/quit nurses, and 3) esprit de corps strengthens the relationship between work discomfort and intention to leave/quit. The research findings reinforce previous studies conducted by Maslach & Leiter, 2017; Spence Laschinger et al., 2009; Cortina & Magley, 2009. Future research is expected to examine hospitals with military backgrounds' culture and organisational identity.

INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING AND WORK MOTIVATION ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE AT THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT UNIVERSITY (UPN) "VETERAN" EAST JAVA

Public bad perception of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN) often occurs in the community, especially related to employee performance. Problems in the bureaucratic realm one of them concerns the composition of organizations that tend to grow. The more swollen the structure, it will hinder the process of public service. With the simplification of bureaucracy makes it more efficient to realize good governance. The change from structural positions in echelons III and IV that were converted into functional positions resulted in implications for work motivation. This will have an impact on the performance of the resulting employees. In this study using quantitative research methods. Data analysis techniques are applied using structural model equations (SEM) with the WarpPLS approach. Respondents were used as many as 33 employees of UPN "Veteran" East Java who were affected by the echelon cuts. The result of this study is that organizational restructuring has a weakly significant influence on employee performance with p = 0.09 and a path coefficient of 0.21. While work motivation has a strong significant influence on employee performance with p<0.01 and track coefficient of 0.75

PENGARUH PENILAIAN KINERJA DAN BEBAN KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA PEGAWAI DENGAN MOTIVASI SEBAGAI VARIABEL MEDIASI PADA DIREKTORAT SITP

This research is motivated by the an unsatisfactory results of performance appraisal at Directorate of Treasury Information System & Technology. In fact, the performance of the Directorate of SITP has been felt by many stakeholders. Another thing that is of concern is that a large workload does not reduce employee motivation to continue to provide maximum performance. The formulations of the problems are: (1) how do performance appraisal affect the employee performance; (2) how do performance appraisal affect the employee motivation; (3) how do workload affect the employee performance; (4) how do workload affect the employee motivation and (5) how do employee motivation affect the employee performance. This research is a quantitative research. Data collection was carried out by distributing on-line surveys to 135 Directorate of SITP staff in all division. Data analysis uses a structural equation model or Structural Equation Model (SEM) with data processing using Partial Least Square (PLS) version 3. The results showed that : (1) performance appraisal had a positive and significant effect on the employee performance; (2) performance appraisal had a positive and significant effect on the employee motivation; (3) workload had a positive and significant effect on the employee performance; (4) workload had a positive and significant effect on the employee motivation and (5) employee motivation gave partial mediation between performance appraisal and workload to employee performance.

Structural model of a piezo engine for composite telescope

The structural model of a piezo engine for composite telescope is constructed. This structural model clearly shows the conversion of electrical energy by a piezo engine into mechanical energy of the control element of a composite telescope. The structural scheme of a piezo engine is determined. For the control systems with a piezo engine its deformations are obtained in the matrix form. This structural model, structural scheme and matrix equation of a piezo engine are applied in calculation the parameters of the control systems for composite telescope.

Trust, Media Credibility, Social Ties, and the Intention to Share towards Information Verification in an Age of Fake News.

Social media is now the primary form of communication between internet users and has soared in popularity, which has directly impacted the spread of the phenomenon of fake news. Fake news is not only a widespread phenomenon; it is also problematic and dangerous for society. The aim of this study is to understand the phenomenon of fake news better. The study utilised a structural modelling equation in order to identify how Polish society perceives the problem of fake news and assess the extent to which it trusts content that is published on the internet. The key goal was to determine what factors have the most significant influence on the verification of information being viewed on the internet. By deploying the partial least squares method of validation, SmartPLS3 software was used to process the survey results. The strongest positive effect on information verification behaviour was found to be fake news awareness, which was followed by the intention to share information. The research did not consider any clear connections that may exist between the nature of fake news and its recipient; however, much of the fake news that appears on the internet is political in nature. The study can be used by news reporting companies and provides preliminary information for developers responsible for running social media sites as well as users who want to combat and limit the spread of fake news online. This study expands on the available literature related to fake news by identifying the effects on information verification behaviour of fake news awareness and the intention to share data.

Evaluation and Comparison of SEM, ESEM, and BSEM in Estimating Structural Models with Potentially Unknown Cross-loadings

ABSTRACT Cross-loadings are common in multidimensional instruments; however, they cannot be appropriately addressed in conventional structural equation modeling (SEM) owing to the assumption of zero cross-loadings in standard confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Although it has been proposed that exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) and Bayesian structural equation modeling (BSEM) can address this issue more flexibly, their performance in structural parameter estimation has not been adequately compared. This study uses simulated data to evaluate and compare SEM, ESEM, and BSEM in estimating structural models under different manipulation conditions (i.e., sample size, target loading, cross-loading, and path coefficient). The results demonstrated that the performances of these approaches were similar in the case of zero cross-loadings. SEM performed worse as cross-loadings increased, and the performance of BSEM significantly depended on the accuracy of the priors for cross-loadings. ESEM was inferior to BSEM with correctly specified prior means for cross-loadings in most evaluation measures and exhibits unstable performance in conditions with small target loadings. Recommended strategies for selecting an appropriate modeling approach are discussed based on our findings.

The Strategy of Improving the Performance of Cooperatives in the Review of Organizational Culture, Innovation is Mediated by the Entrepreneurial Orientation in Surabaya

Purpose: The aim of research to proved and analyzed strategy to improve cooperative performance through organizational culture, innovation in mediation with entrepreneurship orientation in surabaya city.
 Design/methodology/approach: The type of this research was surveying research and the data from questionnaire will be as primer data.
 Findings: The results showed that organizational culture positive and significant effect against the entrepreneurial orientation, innovation is a positive and significant effect against the entrepreneurial orientation, organizational culture positive and significant effect performance improvement strategies towards cooperative, positive effect not significant innovation strategy improved performance of cooperatives, entrepreneurial orientation effect positive and significant performance improvement strategies against the cooperative.
 Research limitations/implications: The data collected were declared valid and reliable, then processed for analysis using structural equation model or Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).
 Practical implications: The population study for this research was all primary cooperatives in Surabaya with total 400 cooperatives that have the following characteristics: (a) has a member of a minimum of 100 people, (b) active of operations and implement RAT for 3 years successively, (c) has more than two business units (d) and has assets of over 1 billion rupiah. The sample for this research was 138 primary cooperation.
 Originality/value: This paper is original
 Paper type: Literature review

Quality Analysis of Vaberaya.Banyumaskab.Go.Id Website on User Satisfaction on Vaccination Activities in Banyumas District Using Delone and Mclean Success Model

The development of technology today has become the most important thing in society. This causes the wider information that can be accessed by the public in Indonesia, especially on vaccination activities in the Banyumas area, the people of Banyumas can access the website to carry out vaccination activities. Processes that use technology anywhere and anytime. This study analyzes the quality of the website vaberaya.banyumaskab.go.id using the Delone and McLean Success Model with reference to 6 variables including information quality, system quality, service quality, user satisfaction, usage, and net benefits. This sampling uses questionnaire data with 100 users as respondents who have used the vaberaya.banyumaskab.go.id website. The method in data processing uses a structural equation model or Structure Equation Modeling (SEM), with the help of SmartPLS.

The Role of Knowledge Management Maturity in Improving Organizational Performance An exploratory study on a sample of administrative leaderships at the University of Babylon

The purpose of the current research is to identify the role of maturity in knowledge management represented by (individuals, processes, and technological skills) in the institutional performance of (employee satisfaction, productivity improvement, and growth), and accordingly a sample of the (58) senior leaderships of the University of Babylon were selected. A leader in order to identify the level of availability of knowledge management maturity, and attention to institutional performance, which means the necessity of demonstrating the tools that are used in order to demonstrate the results of the study, and accordingly, the most famous statistical tools that were used for this purpose were (the structural modeling equation, The Cronbach alpha coefficient, the normal distribution represented by the tests "Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Shapiro-Wilk", the arithmetic mean, the standard deviation, the Pearson correlation coefficient, and the regression coefficients that were extracted by means of the program "AMOS.V.24". Based on the results of the study, the study has concluded It was found that there is a correlation and moral influence between the maturity of knowledge management and the institutional performance of the university, which requires the research sample to work on investing its knowledge potentials in order to develop and improve its institutional performance.

Factors affecting Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Health Worker Innovative Behavior: The Role of Person-Job Fit as a Moderating Variable

This research aims to determine factors affecting organizational citizenship behavior and health worker innovative behavior such as transformational leadership, perceived organizational support, innovative work behavior, employee creativity, with person-job fit as the moderating variable. This research is included in descriptive quantitative research with a quantitative approach. The data analysis technique in this study used Partial Least Square (PLS). PLS is a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) equation model with an approach based on variance or component-based structural equation modeling. The results of this research show that of several factors related to employees and their organizations, only transformational leadership that does not affect innovative work behavior.

Analisis Literasi Halal, Label Halal, Islamic Branding, dan Religious Commitment pada Pembelian Makanan di Tsabita Halal Bakery

The food and beverage industry has the largest market share in the world. In Muslim countries, this industry contributes 16.6% of the total global food and beverage industry. The size of this industry in general also reflects the large potential of halal food and beverages. In Indonesia, the very high growth in consumption of halal food is driven by various factors, such as the desire of Muslim consumers to consume food ingredients in a halal and good manner (thayyib) according to religious orders. This study aims to determine the effect of halal literacy, halal labeling, Islamic branding, and religious commitment on the decision to purchase halal food at Tsabita Halal Bakery. This research is a descriptive quantitative type. This study uses data analysis techniques Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) or structural equation model. Sampling using simple random sampling. The results of this study indicate that halal literacy and halal labels have a contribution in encouraging consumers to buy halal food at Tsabita Halal Bakery. While Islamic branding and religious commitment have no influence on the purchase of halal food at Tsabita Halal Bakery. For this reason, Tsabita needs to strengthen her Islamic branding and continue with Islamic marketing through social media, considering that the millennial generation is very social media literate. Religious commitment also has no effect on purchases, it can be caused by the low level of respondents' religiosity.

Determinants of the Entrepreneurial Influence on Academic Entrepreneurship—Lessons Learned from Higher Education Students in Portugal

Academic entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly important to the field of research as well as to policy makers due to its ability to contribute to the economic, technological, and social development of regions and countries. This research aims to evaluate the determinants that influence the interest of Portuguese higher education students (HEI’s) to become entrepreneurs. The methodology used is quantitative and uses structural model equations. The results obtained demonstrate that the student’s perception of business skills, business growth skills, strategy, and successful business are key factors that students take into account in their entrepreneurial orientation. The research contributes to this theory by adding new knowledge to the literature on the perception of the HEI’s students to become entrepreneurs, specifically the students of Portuguese universities. In practical terms, the contributions offered within this research are based on suggestions for the third mission of universities, explicitly knowledge transfer to the community, business groups, and policy makers, as well as the creation of the essentials within university boundaries to promote entrepreneurship amongst its students. The research is original and innovative, as no research on this field with all the aggregated elements under study has been previously performed in Portugal. Furthermore, the obtained results can translate into ideas that potentially create jobs.

Effects of Vertical Spatial Overlap on Phytoplankton Diversity under Experimentally Altered Lake Stratification Regimes.

In phytoplankton communities, competitive exclusion might occur when functionally similar species are impeded from regulating their positions along light and nutrient gradients to reduce niche overlap. Greater spatial overlap (SO) between species due to water column mixing could thus promote competitive exclusion, reducing community taxonomic diversity. However, greater SO could also promote coexistence of functionally different taxa. Using data from a whole-lake experiment, we investigated the effects of SO and other relevant environmental factors on phytoplankton diversity across the water columns of lake basins with different thermocline manipulations. We estimated SO using an in situ fluorometer, and overall community diversity microscopically. Using structured equation models, we estimated directional relationships between phytoplankton diversity, SO, the lake physical structure and the zooplankton community. No significant effect of SO on phytoplankton taxonomic diversity was observed, but higher SO was associated with greater functional diversity. Change in lake physical structure and in the zooplankton community also affected diversity, with a negative response to increased top-down interactions. Overall, despite the fact that the alteration of water column stratification structure and top-down interactions were stronger drivers of phytoplankton diversity in our system, some effect of spatial overlap on the outcome of inferred competitive interactions were observable.

PENGARUH EXPERIENTAL VALUE DAN PLACE FOOD IMAGE TERHADAP BEHAVIORAL INTENTION WISATA KULINER BANDUNG

Every tourist has a different motivation. One type of tourism that is currently growing very rapidly is the culinary industry. This study is to determine the experiential value of tourists in shaping the place food image of the city of Bandung and influencing behavioral intention. This causal type of quantitative research analyzes data using the Structural Equation Model equation. The results of the study found evidence of all research hypotheses proved to have a positive and significant influence relationship.

Crowdfunding: Exploring the Factors That Could Motivate People to Raise Fund or Make Investment Through Crowdfunding Platforms in Emerging Countries

This study aims to explore the factors motivating the prospective investors towards adopting crowdfunding for making investments and assess the impact of motivators on the intention of the investors to invest in the crowdfunding projects in emerging countries. This study used a survey research to collect perceptions regarding motivators for crowdfunding investments. Also, a structural modelling equation has been adopted to model and analyse data. Motivators like monetary utility, personal utility, campaign and campaign owner, social and sense of belongingness and societal utility have been identified from the literature and empirically investigated in the study. This study has been conducted in an emerging country which could limit its generalization for this spectrum. Further studies considering the perceptual factors herein adopted could be run in developed countries in order to understand if the findings remain the same or any other contrasting evidence is observed. The model built in this study could be used by anyone who is planning to raise funds through crowdfunding. The crowdfunding platforms through the research findings can extend advice to the fund seeker and ensure that campaigns posted on his portal has the necessary ingredients. The model built is positively an initial attempt to understand the motivators which pushes the prospective investors towards crowdfunding campaigns in emerging countries. This study contributes especially to the emerging countries, in which crowdfunding concept and initiatives are still few widespread. By the understanding of perceptual factors, policy-makers may act successfully on fostering initiatives regarding crowdfunding developments. This can enhance economic and social aspects of those countries through several innovation developments. The existing literary talks about crowdfunding in developed economies, very few studies have taken place in emerging economies and moreover no study has focused on building a model which could encompass all the factors impacting investors’ decision making towards crowdfunding. This research is novel since the concept of crowdfunding is relatively new and the factors which could possibly motivate the prospective investors to consider projects for investments are not known, mainly in emerging countries and hence has been studied in the current research.

User involvement and satisfaction levels of health information systems during the design and development phase

Objectives: Many factors affect adoption of health information systems, user involvement and satisfaction are some of the main factors of user adoption of health information systems. Despite the benefits due to social, cultural, organizational and technological factors some of the benefits become complex and difficult to achieve in practice. Both users and development team lack time due to busy schedules, sometimes disagreements between the users and the project team to reach concurrence, user at time might lack the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively participate in the design process. This study will investigate the user involvements and satisfaction levels of health information systems during the design and development phase. Methods: Cross sectional survey was utilized. Several existing tools were modified and used for the study namely Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire, Usefulness, Satisfaction, and Ease of use (USE) Questionnaire and Purdue Usability Testing Questionnaire. Structured equation models (SEM) analysis was used in the analysis. Ordinal regression statistics was used. Results: User involvement and satisfaction measure as the dependent variable and the user participation during the design and development of the health information systems as the independent variables. For every one unit increase in independent variable there is a predicted increase (of a certain amount) in the log odds falling at a higher level of the dependent variable. Generally showing that as scores increase on the independent variables, there is an increase probability falling at a higher level on the dependent variable. Conclusions: User involvement and participation has positive impact on the satisfaction levels of users during the design and development of the health information system.

Linking transformational leadership to team service innovation in the hospitality industry: A team-level mediation and moderation investigation

Team service innovation contributes to team service excellence and customer satisfaction in the hospitality industry. Nevertheless, mechanisms behind team service innovation have been rarely explored. This study aims to develop a team-level model of mediating and moderating mechanisms behind the relationship between team-focused transformational leadership (TFL) and team service innovation. Data were collected from 683 team members and their 114 team leaders of 67 hospitality organisations located in China. Multilevel structural equation modelling (MSEM) and latent moderated structural equation modelling (LMS) were utilised to validate the research model. Results revealed that team-focused TFL fostered team service innovation via the mediating role of developmental culture. Group extraversion diversity strengthened the relationship between team-focused TFL and team service innovation, such that the relationship was strengthened only under higher but not lower levels of group extraversion diversity. In light of research findings, theoretical and practical implications are drawn.

Undermining alienative commitment through spiritual leadership: a moderated mediation model of social capital and political skill

PurposeThe purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between spiritual leadership and employees' alienative commitment to the organization, both directly and indirectly, via employee social capital. We also test the role of employee political skill as a boundary condition of the indirect spiritual leadership–alienative commitment link.Design/methodology/approachTime-lagged data were collected from 491 employees in various manufacturing and service organizations. Data were analyzed using structural modeling equation in Mplus (8.6).FindingsSpiritual leadership was negatively associated with alienative commitment, both directly and indirectly, via social capital. Employee political skill moderated the indirect relationship between spiritual leadership and alienative commitment, such that the relationship was stronger when employee political skill was high (vs low).Practical implicationsThe demonstration of spiritual leadership's behaviors by both managers and employees can develop employees' social capital at work, which in turn can reduce employees' negative commitment to the organization. Likewise, improving employees' political skills can help leadership diminish alienative commitment.Originality/valueThe present work contributes to the literature on spiritual leadership by foregrounding how and why spiritual leadership undermines employee alienative commitment to the organization. By doing so, the study also enhances the nomological networks of the antecedents and outcomes of social capital and contributes to the scant literature on negative alienative commitment. Given the prevalence and negative repercussions of alienative commitment for employees' and organizations' productivity and performance, our findings are timely and relevant.

The influence of the quality criteria on the quality cost of suppliers in SMEs

PurposeAfter quality costing, most companies do not know how to invest in supplier quality improvement. This study aims to develop a comprehensive model for the effect of supplier quality criteria on supplier quality costs.Design/methodology/approachThe independent variable of supplier quality criteria and the dependent variable of supplier quality costs have been identified based on a literature review. Then a model has been developed for the effect of the variables. A questionnaire has been designed and distributed to 158 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Jey Industrial Town located in the Isfahan Province. Structural equation modeling and partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) have been used for data analysis.FindingsSupplier quality criteria influenced supplier quality costs (with a value of 0.711). The results also implied that organizational quality had the highest impact. The appraisal costs and the internal failure costs of purchasing received most of the influence. Also, process quality and consequential costs of failure purchasing had the lowest influencing and influenced values.Practical implicationsThe findings of this research encourage the managers of SMEs to evaluate and rank the most appropriate quality criteria related to quality costs for selecting a supplier as one of the most fundamental decisions in supply chain management.Social implicationsAppropriate selection of quality criteria influencing quality costs results in reduced quality cost. Quality cost reduction also results in decreased products' fixed prices. Ultimately, the company will have more competitive pricing, and consumers will benefit from such a significant advantage.Originality/valueStudying the influence of supplier quality criteria on supplier quality costs is relatively new in the manufacturing industry. The comprehensiveness of the investigated variables is also another advantage of the proposed model.

How Brand Equity Can Saves Its Company? A Study of One of the Largest E-Commerce in Indonesia

Marketing management is an activity that is planned and organized including the distribution of goods, pricing and monitoring of policies that have been made which aim to gain a place in the market so that the objectives of marketing can be achieved. Online marketing media in the digital era seems to be the prima donna of solving solutions, therefore business actor’s flock to take advantage of online marketing media as a driving force for the wheels of their business. The type of research used in this study was quantitative research. In this study, data processing and analysis used the Partial Least Square (PLS) approach. PLS is a component-based or variant-based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) equation model. The data analysis in this research is the Outer Model Analysis, Inner Model, and Hypothesis Testing. This research results that the price has an effect on Brand Image. Product Quality has an effect on Brand Image. Service Quality affects Brand Image. Price affects Promotion. Product Quality affects Promotion. Quality of Service affects Promotion. Promotion affects Brand Image. Promotion moderates the relationship between Price and Brand Image. Promotion moderates the relationship between Product Quality and Brand Image. Promotion can moderate the relationship between service quality and brand image.