Impact of Service Quality on Malaysian Polytechnic Sustainability Using Modified HEdPERF Model: An Empirical Study

Abstract

Current literature in higher education service quality and organisational performance depicts that adequate application of modified HEdPERF (Higher Education PERFormance) in the organisation daily operation will generate high performance activities that subsequently will increase organisation performance. Although many previous investigations have studied the association between service quality and organisation performance in higher education, the role of modified HEdPERF education specific model as a critical factor for improving organisation performance among managers has been poorly discussed. The goal of this work is to assess the effect of modified HEdPERF service quality model and organisation performance relationship among heads of department of Malaysian polytechnics. This study employed random sampling method through self-administered questionnaires collected from 192 Heads of Department covering academic and non-academic departments within Malaysian polytechnics. The results have shown that programme issues, academic aspects and access are significant antecedents for organisational performance at Malaysian polytechnics. Conversely, non-academic and physical facilities were not able to improve organisational performance. The study outcomes confirm the ability of organisation to correctly execute modified HEdPERF which covers programme issue, academic aspects and access in daily operations as important measure to improve the performance of the organisation.