The Effect of Internal Environmental Factors on Operational Excellence of Manufacturing Industry: A Pilot Study
Mohd Hafeez Al-Amin Abdul Wahab, Mohammad Ismail, Mohd Nazri Muhayiddin · International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences · 2019
This paper examines internal environmental factors that influence the operational excellence of SMEs manufacturing sector in Malaysia.The objective of this paper is to measure the reliability and validity of internal environmental factors and its construct.A pilot study was conducted among 30 SMEs company in Terengganu which represented by the managerial level who are closely linked to the manufacturing operations.This study adopted a survey method by using simple random sampling method for the data collection.The reliability and validity of the instrument were examined through content validity, face validity and reliability based on expert assessment and the data was analyzed using the statistical software SPSS version 22.The result shows that the survey instrument is reliable and valid.Therefore, this study expected will help the Malaysian SMEs manufacturing sector in determining the effect of internal environmental factors on operational excellence.