Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the determinant factors of green office layout towards employee workplace productivity.
Theoretical Framework: The research is based on the theoretical framework which represent the independent variables of comfort, office space, interactions, distractions and environment and awareness attitude while dependent variables is employee productivity.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This quantitative study data were gathered from 200 logistics company during operation hours. They key respondent was the company’s regular employee as and the validity and the reliability of the questionnaire were thoroughly examined. The results were based on regression analysis and equation modelling by using SPSS software. Then, the data will be analysed in the relationship of each construct using the structural equation modelling approach.
Findings: The findings of the study provide strong grounds that employee productivity are highly connected with factor of green office layout involved comfort, office space, interaction, distraction and environment awareness and attitude as well positively influences the employee productivity. Meanwhile, the researcher observation shows that comfort and office space have complementary relationship with employee productivity.
Research, Practical & Social implications: Companies should emphasize that improvement of employee productivity is basic components in an office environment. The components are comfort dimension, office space dimension, interaction dimension, distraction dimension and environment awareness and attitude dimension. It is valuable to concurrently instilling all of this dimension value in order to improve the employee productivity that give the potential benefit.
Originality/Value: The research is an enhanced conceptual framework that examines critical issues concerning the successful relationship of green office layout dimension and employee workplace productivity, thus providing valuable outcomes for decision makers and academics. This study found that the framework could explain better each variable which has a dimension of green office layout towards employee workplace productivity.
Recent researchers found that Crude Palm Oil Futures contract (FCPO) in Bursa Malaysia Derivatives is no longer an effective hedging tool to mitigate the price risk in cash market due to the excessive speculation trading activities. This is very alarming to the hedgers hence possible hedge pair alternatives to crude palm oil physical must be identified to ensure that the hedging can be executed effectively. Therefore in this study, Ordinary Least Square, bivariate VAR and bivariate VECM were used to examine whether the non-interrelated energy futures contracts could serve as effective cross-hedging mechanisms for the CPO. Weekly data of agricultural and energy futures contracts from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) are employed to cross hedge the physical crude palm oil prices. The study starts from 2006 until 2016. Empirical results indicate that bivariate VECM gives more hedging variance reduction. Surprisingly, overall FCPO is still the best futures contract for hedging purposes while Japanese crude oil futures (TOCOM) represents the energy futures market as the best cross hedge alternatives for CPO.
The sharp increase in liquidity has exacerbated volatility in futures markets. The shocks in volatility patterns have triggered the urgent need to re-examine the efficiency of futures markets, but this time on a time scale. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of global futures markets as a reference for future prices. We perform spectrogram analysis to determine the signal sensitivity of both markets, as expressed by the association between the spot and futures markets. We also observe the correlation pattern of spot and futures co-movements in the time-frequency domain. Our study shows that agricultural and energy markets are inefficient in the short term. The low short-term positive correlation leads to a temporary divergence in spot and futures prices, which provides a profit opportunity for futures contract speculators.
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