The Moderating Effects of Integrity with Discipline and Good Governance: University Students’ Perspective

Abstract

The essence of this research paper is to investigate basic business academic research methodology using SmartPLS 4 in quantitative design and analysis. The aim is to assess from the data analysis the moderator variable (Integrity) between two other variables namely Discipline and Good Governance. The research objective is to establish the relationship between Discipline and Good Governance. Also, this is to analyze Integrity as moderator effects on the relationship between Discipline and Good Governance. The hypothesis tested were H1: there is significant relationship between Discipline and Good Governance, and H2: Integrity Moderates the relationship between Discipline and Good Governance. The target group for this research were Level 300 students from the Management Education Class which has a population of 137 and sample size of 101 was calculated using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) formula. The findings shows that both hypotheses of the main variables were not achieved because the path coefficients had p-values of 0.054 and 0.773 respectively based on the data results analyzed.  But some new knowledge of theories was found in table 16 with positive p-values showing correlations since they showed some positive significance relationships shown within the Dependent and Independent variables and some of the factors in terms of Correlations. These are Governance Culture (as factor) is correlated to Discipline (dependent variable), Governance Culture (as factor) is correlated to Follow Procedures (as factor), Governance Culture (as factor) is correlated to Good Governance (independent variable), Integrity (moderator variable) is correlated to Follow Procedures (as factor), Integrity (moderator variable) is correlated to Good Governance (independent variable), Trustworthy (as factor) is correlated to Discipline (dependent variable), Trustworthy (as factor) is correlated to Follow Procedures (as factor), Trustworthy (as factor) is correlated to Governance Culture (as factor), and Integrity as a moderator variable, through Discipline correlates to Trustworthy.