Content Validation and Reliability Study of Workplace Solid Waste Segregation Behaviour

Abstract

One of the causes of environmental pollution is a waste generation, and the fundamental solution for this is waste minimisation through waste segregation. Many studies have been done for the behaviour modification for the waste separation at source, but a lack of study targets the educational institution staff as the respondent. Plus, at the organisational level, less study on the factors influencing the workers to practice green behaviour individually and the tools or instruments readily tested do not cover the organisation and individual perspective. Thus, this research aims to evaluate the validity and reliability of the items in the questionnaire to assess green human resource management, pro-environmental concern and solid waste segregation behavioural intention. Nine experts were involved in the validation study, and 37 university staff responded to the reliability study pre-testing. The content validation was analysed using the content validation index, which is the item content validation index (I-CVI), scale content validation index (S-CVI) and experts agreement (Fleiss Kappa Statistic) (k). The reliability study used the value of Cronbach's alpha (Cronbach's α) as the guideline for the item's reliability. The I-CVI for all the items ranges from 0.78 to 1.00, and the average of each domain is between 0.89 to 1.00 for its relevancy and clarity. The items also show the perfect expert agreement when each domain's average (k) values were between 0.88 to 1.00. The Cronbach's α of all items ranged from 0.87 to 0.97. Thus, all the items generated are validated and reliable for testing.

Keywords: Expert validation, content validation index, fleiss kappa statistic, reliability

Introduction

In recent decades, global waste production has expanded dramatically, and there are no signs of a slowdown. As the population rises, solid waste management worsens global ecology, economy, and public health. The world annually generates 2.01 billion metric tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW). Among these, 33% are not being handled in a way that is safe for the environment. ASEAN's per capita MSW generation is 1.14 kg/capita/day, whereas the average daily waste generated by a single person in the country is 0.74 kg, ranging from 0.11 to 4.54 kg (Ian Tiseo, 2022). The above findings indicate the absence of solid waste strategic planning and insufficient financial investment in waste management. Thus, this poor environmental management will harm public health and affect the nation's economy and sociological balance (Boiral et al., 2019).

Malaysia generated a massive amount of municipal garbage, projected at 38,427 metric tonnes per day (1.17 kg/capita/day) in 2021, with 82.5% of waste going to landfills. In comparison, fewer than 20% of garbage is recycled. Given these circumstances, solid waste output in 2022 will reach 14 million tonnes annually. This quantity can be estimated by imagining the Petronas Twin Tower filling up with trash every week. In the meantime, the Solid Waste Corporation (SWCorp) said that the recycling rate that was achieved in the year 2020 was 30.67%, which is lower than the recycling rates that are achieved in other developed countries such as Singapore (59%), Korea (49%) and Taiwan (60%) (Waste to Energy for A Sustainable Future, 2021).

The Twelfth Malaysia Plan (12MP) seeks to address these issues by increasing the percentage of recycled domestic waste from 30% to 40%. This development plan's five-year time frame (2021-2025) aims to achieve a clean, green, and resilient strategy for national growth. The enforcement of waste separation at the source as the supporting effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle (3R) campaign will make the comprehensive and environmentally friendly waste management possible. More effort will be made to improve waste sorting and recycling infrastructure, especially in residential, institutional, and commercial zones. These actions are in keeping with the 2019 National Cleanliness Policy, which aims to lessen the environmental impact of waste by bolstering the circular economy and other waste-to-wealth programmes (Waste to Energy for A Sustainable Future, 2021)

Based on the waste management hierarchy, the bottom of the pyramid leads to more sustainable living, opposite the top, which is more investable. The bottom of the waste management hierarchy is waste minimisation or reduction; the upper part is treatment and disposal. Waste reduction means the action to minimise the waste from the source before to the landfill. The fundamental initiative for this part is waste segregation. Waste segregation is the primary essential step before recycling. Logically, the recycling rate will drastically increase when the waste segregation at sources is perfectly done. However, we are facing a lower recycling rate than the other country. Many initiatives have been done in the aspect of technology, governance, social and financial. However, the progress is still running slowly and costly, where the most fundamental factor for this goal is human participation which means behaviour modification (Derdowski et al., 2020). Referring to the National Policy 2020, the strategy to increase the recycling rate is to reinforce the implementation of waste separation in residential, industrial, commercial and institutional areas. Much research has been done in the residential and industrial sectors, but there is a lack of studies in institutions focusing on employee perception and behaviour (Blok et al., 2015)

In light of the growing attention paid worldwide to enhancing environmental consciousness, lowering carbon emissions, raising recycling rates, and cutting energy consumption, it is essential to explore the organisational factors that encourage the ecological behaviours of employees. The inability of organisations to comprehend how to influence their workforces to engage in environmentally conscious actions is a barrier to environmental friendliness (Lasrado & Zakaria, 2020; Manika et al., 2021). To find solutions to environmental issues, a great number of research has been carried out to investigate the ecological behaviours of employees in a wide range of economic sectors (Aslam et al., 2021; Saeed et al., 2019). However, current research on employee ecological behaviour does not provide enough evidence of holistic indicators to initiate employee ecological behaviour in the workplace.

Regardless of the emphasis placed on the environmentally responsible behaviours of employees, not much thought has been put into getting individual staff to adopt more environmentally conscious practices, particularly in the higher education sector (Anwar et al., 2020; Malik et al., 2019). Higher education sectors play an essential role in the entire service and manufacturing sector by supplying a trained and skilled workforce (Farooq, Yusliza, Muhammad, & Saputra, 2022; Farooq, Yusliza, Muhammad, Omar, et al., 2022). Over the past few years, higher education institutions have made growing efforts to include environmental management and green practices in their services (Aboramadan, 2022). Hence this study will take part in a higher educational institution in Malaysia.

Environmentally responsible business practices are now necessary to form a company's reputation and its edge over the competition. A growing number of businesses have recognised the necessity of including staff members to improve sustainable performance. These efforts typically take the shape of programmes designed to cut down on waste and improve resource use overall (Davis et al., 2020; Young et al., 2015). Furthermore, the results of a recent survey demonstrated an increase in the use of green human resource management (GHRM) methods to encourage employee participation in environmentally responsible behaviours (Omarova & Jo, 2022). By tying together HRM processes, including training, performance management, recruitment, employee participation, and reward, with the company's environmental objectives, GHRM makes environmental management more effective (Ojo et al., 2019, 2022). Even though there has been a growing academic interest in the impact that GHRM practises play on environmental performance, recent studies have urged for additional research to be done on the factors that motivate employees to engage in environmentally responsible behaviours (Davis et al., 2020; Paillé & Francoeur, 2022).

Establishing an instrument that adequately addresses all concerns about behaviour and the environment can be challenging because different individuals from different communities will have different perceptions. The research carried out by Tian and Robertson (2019) developed an instrument to measure environmentally conscious behaviour, whereas the research carried out by Ansari et al. (2021) and Raza et al. (2021) concentrated on the knowledge component. In addition, Ojo et al. (2019), Wang et al. (2021) and Filimonau et al. (2018) only focused on values and attitudes aspects. The only similar research has been conducted by (Yong et al., 2019; Yu et al., 2020), which unfortunately has some weaknesses which are limited to the behaviour and knowledge of the industrial community and not generally applicable to the broader community. Complying with the concept of social science, meaningful and valuable research can be accomplished by testing its instruments' reliability and validity to avoid claims or misinformation (Drost, 2011). Reliability is when the same result comes out of repeated measurements, and validity is the sign that a test or measuring tool is accurate and precise (Drost, 2011; Nunally, 1978). Hence, this study aims to develop valid and reliable items for solid waste segregation behaviour at the workplace in higher educational institutions. In continuation of what was just discussed, the objectives of this research are to investigate the following questions:

Q1: What is the validation index for all the items in three dimensions of solid waste segregation behaviour?

Q2: What is the reliability index for all the items in three dimensions of solid waste segregation behaviour?

Methods

The flowchart of the methods used in this study is shown in figure 1. The first stage of instrument development comprises three stages: the first stage identifies the content domain, the second stage generates sample items, and the third stage builds the instrument. The crucial step in the domain confirmation is the extensive literature review, where the researcher analyses the framework, constructs and items of employee green behaviour used by the previous scholars. Reviewing the existing literature, the researcher could spot several holes in the construct's theoretical underpinnings. Then, from the construct, all the items were gathered from the different scholars with the same construct and theory. Subsequent, all the items were listed for the instrument generating that suited the study.

After that, the researcher prepares the content validation form, which measures the content validation of items' relevancy and clarity. Specific experts were appointed for the items' judgment to ensure the assessment instrument's content validity. The selection of the domain specialists needs to be based on their in-depth understanding of the topic and their specialised training or extensive professional experience. It is suggested that three specialists be consulted to evaluate content validity. Although there is no set limit on the number of experts who can participate, it is highly improbable that more than ten will be included, given that the greater the number of experts, the lower the likelihood that they will all be able to reach a consensus (Yusoff & Department of Medical Education, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIA, 2019; Zelt et al., 2018). Researchers chose nine experts, six academics and three industry experts, based on their knowledge and experience in organisational behaviour and environmental science, to evaluate the questions' content validity.

Content validation can be done in either a face-to-face or non-face-to-face setting. Non-face-to-face approach was used for this study. Using this approach, an online content validation form was delivered to the experts, and clear instructions were provided to make the content validation process easier to complete. The three most critical things to evaluate are cost, time, and response rate. The face-to-face technique may be more expensive and time-consuming due to the difficulties of gathering all specialists, but the response rate will be the highest. The response rate and time may be the most challenging aspects of the non-face-to-face strategy due to the difficulty of receiving a response on time and the possibility of not receiving a response from the expert (Taherdoost, 2018).

The next step is to check the domain and content validation form items. The domain's definition and representative objects are offered to domain experts. Before assigning a score to each item, the experts must thoroughly assess the domain and its components. In order to increase the items' applicability to the given issue, the experts are asked to provide feedback, either verbally or in writing. All feedback is considered when deciding how to improve the domain and its items.

Then, the complete response validation form was analysed to determine the item's content validation (I-CVI) and scale content validation (S-CVI), followed by the experts' agreement (Fleiss Kappa Statistic (k). The I-CVI score for each item was determined by taking the total number of experts and dividing it by the number of experts who gave the item a rating of 3 or 4. In the case of five or fewer judges, it is recommended that I-CVI be 1.00, and in the case of six or more judges, it is recommended that I-CVI not be less than 0.78 (Almohanna et al., 2022). The S-CVI was computed to determine the extent to which the overall scale contains valid information. The S-CVI model, on which there is universal consensus, can be used to conceptualise it, as can the S-CVI model (average). S-CVI (average) emphasises average item quality rather than the average performance of the experts. It is recommended that a minimum S-CVI should be 0.8 to reflect content validity (Yusoff & Department of Medical Education, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIA, 2019).

Researchers widely use CVI to assess content validity. However, the value does not consider the possibilities of exaggerated values due to random agreement. As a result, because it eliminates any random chance agreement, the (k) coefficient computation confirms better knowledge of content validity. The (k) is a consensus index for an interrater agreement that is used in addition to CVI to confirm that expert agreement is not a consequence of chance. Calculating the Kappa Statistic requires the random agreement probability, which is represented by the formula Pc = [N! / A! (N - A)!]. 0.5N. In this formula, N refers to the total number of experts on the panel, and A indicates the total number of experts who believe that the topic at hand is significant. The formula for calculating the kappa statistic is as follows: K = (I-CVI - Pc) / (1 – Pc). The evaluation criteria for (k) indices are classified as the values below by following the statement from (Brusseau et al., 2022; Nichols et al., 2010).

a) 0.40 to 0.59: low or weak agreement between expert

b) 0.6 to 0.74: the moderate agreement between expert

c) More than 0.74: excellent or near-perfect agreement between expert

Once questionnaires are prepared, a pre-testing study has been done, and a pre-test is a vital next step in the research process. It is essential to do a pilot test of the survey to identify areas for improvement, lessen measurement error, ease the respondent burden, ascertain whether respondents correctly comprehend questions, and guarantee that question order does not affect responses. In the context of social science research, a pre-test can be thought of as a critical study of the instrument that will help establish the survey's validity and reliability. Hence the final draft was circulated randomly among the HEI employees by emailing the Microsoft form to them. There were 37 respondents in this pre-testing study, and the results were analysed through the SPSS version 26 to measure the items' reliability.

The consistency of measurement is directly related to reliability (Bryman, 2015). The degree to which a measure is free of bias and, thus, free of errors is directly proportional to the degree to which the measure can be relied upon to provide consistent results across both time and items in the instrument (Sekaran & Bougie, 2016). According to (Saunders et al., 2019), "reliability" refers to the consistency of the findings produced by a data gathering or analysis procedure. The reliability of a variable is evaluated using a method known as composite reliability (Hair et al., 2017). This method includes merging the items that constitute a variable to get a score, also known as a data point, for the variable in question. This study utilised composite reliability to confirm the investigation's internal consistency. The overall reliability value can vary from 0 to 1, with higher values representing greater confidence (Hair et al., 2017). Values between 0.60 and 0.70 are considered appropriate for exploratory research, whereas values between 0.70 and 0.90 are considered satisfactory for more scientific research stages, as stated by Nunally (1978). Composite dependability with a threshold of 0.70 (> 0.70), as suggested by Nunnally and Bernstein (1999) was used in this investigation.

Figure 1: The flow chart of the validation and reliability of the items involves in this study
The flow chart of the validation and reliability of the items involves in this study
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Findings

Content validation

Figures 2 and 3 are combinations of bar graphs and a line graph that illustrate the results of validity and intra-reliability of each item from all the dimensions involved in this research. Figure 2 illustrates the first element of validity, item relevancy. In contrast, Figure 3 illustrates the second element, which is the clarity of items. Hence, these two graphs give the big picture of each item's content validity index (I-CVI) and agreement level of experts or intra-reliability (Fleiss Kappa Statistic) (k).

Focusing on the (I-CVI) value, the graph bar has illustrated that all the 52 items from four dimensions have a value range of 0.78 to 1.00. Most of the items reach the acceptable value of more than 0.83 except items 17 and 29, which are 0.78.

The line graph from Figures 2 and 3 are illustrated the agreement level of experts or the item's inter-reliability index through the value of (k). Based on the graph, the value range is between 0.69 to 1.00. Almost all the items have an excellent agreement between experts except items 9, 17 and 29, where they have the lowest score of 0.69.

Content validity indices

The I-CVI for relevancy and clarity of all items ranged between 0.78 to 1. A total of 48 items from all dimensions score the acceptance value for its relevancy, where 34 items have the highest value, 1.00, and 19 items score 0.89, while 2 items did not achieve the acceptance value of I-CVI. 50 items reached the acceptance value of I-CVI for its clarity, where 42 items scored 1.00, followed by the others item that scored 0.89, while only 2 items reached the required value.

The S-CVI (average) of relevancy for social demographic profile, green human resource management, pro-environmental concern and solid waste segregation behaviour was 1.00 (table 1), 0.96 (table 2), 0.89 (table 3) and 1.00 (table 4) respectively. Dimensions 1 and 3 have the S-CVI (average) of 0.98, while dimensions 2 and 4 scores 0.96 and 1.00, respectively. Hence, all the dimensions have the acceptance value of relevancy and clarity validation index for their items and scale. However, due to the unacceptance value of I-CVI, four items need revising for their relevancy and clarity, which are items 17 and 29 and items 9 and 29, respectively.

Figure 2: The graph of items' relevancy based on I-CVI and Kappa Statistic analysis
The graph of items' relevancy based on I-CVI and Kappa Statistic analysis
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Figure 3: The graph of items, clarity based on I-CVI and Kappa Statistic analysis
The graph of items, clarity based on I-CVI and Kappa Statistic analysis
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Experts agreement (Fliess Kappa Statistic) (k)

The highest or almost perfect agreement (average) of content relevancy was scored by dimension 1 and 4, followed by dimension 2 and 3, where the value is 1.00, 1.00, 0.95 and 0.88, respectively. In comparison, the highest (k) value of content clarity was dimension 4 (1.00), followed by dimension 1 (0.98), then dimension 3 (0.97) and lastly, dimension 2 (0.96).

The (k) value range for all items was between 0.69 to 1.00. All the items in dimension 1 (table 1) and 4 (table 4) have the almost perfect agreement value for their item relevancy and clarity, where both dimension scores range between 0.89 to 1.00. In contrast, dimension 2 (table 2) and dimension 3 (table 3) range have shown the lowest value of (k) for its several items' relevancy and clarity which is 0.67, which is below the acceptance value of 0.74. Although the value of (k) average for totals items were 0.95 and 0.97 for their relevancy and clarity, the consideration for revising each item is still explicitly needed for items that are unsuccessful in reaching the acceptance value. As a result, the items chosen for further data collection were solely based on recommendations and expert consultation.

The result above is essential guidance for item selection, and several items have been retained, while some have been modified by paraphrasing, combination, and separation. After some modification, a total of 54 items have been selected for this research.

Reliability study

The Cronbach's alpha analysis results in Table 5 reveal that the reliability value ranges from 0.871 to 0.977. Based on the results, green human resource management, the first construct in this research, has the highest Cronbach alpha (0.977), followed by the solid waste segregation behavioural intention, and closed with pro-environmental concern (0.871), which is the lowest value. Hence all three constructs in this study show outstanding consistency and reliability between all the items.

Table 1 - Content validity and intra-reliability rate of demographic profile
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Table 2 - Content validity and intra-reliability rate of green human resource management
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Table 3 - Content validity and intra-reliability rate of individual pro-environmental concern
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Table 4 - Content validity and intra-reliability rate of solid waste segregation behavioural intention
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Table 5 - The Cronbach’s Alpha for pilot testing analysis
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Conclusion

In this study, an instrument of solid waste segregation behaviour at the workplace was developed and validated among the university staff in Malaysia. The questionnaire consisted of 52 items on demographic profile, green human resource management, pro-environmental concern, and solid waste segregation behavioural intention. All the items in the domains were valid and reliable for the actual data collection, and all the items and scaled successful score the value of I-CVI and S-CVI more than the accepted value, which is 0.83. All the items also managed to get an excellent expert agreement by scoring the Fleiss Kappa Statistic more than 0.69. In addition, the average of all the items from each domain also shows the excellent value of content validity and expert agreements.

Moreover, all the items show high reliability where Cronbach's alpha for all the domains ranges between 0.88 to1.0. Hence, based on the analysis, all the items have good validity and reliability. However, based on the notes or commend from the experts, some modifications have been done to improve the instrument. Therefore, from the 52 items earlier, 54 items have been finally generated to be tested for the actual data collection. In conclusion, the content validation index facilitates the validity and reliability process for the research variables.

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