Open AccessAnalytical assessment on aviation practitioners needs for knowledge enhancement at the postgraduate level: an application of Fuzzy Delphi method
Author(s) -
Maslinawati Mohammad,
Nor Hisham Ghafar,
N Alia Fahada W Ab Rahman,
Rusli Abdullah,
F. Mayor
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/645/1/012010
Subject(s) - aviation , delphi method , certification , medical education , accreditation , knowledge management , construct (python library) , engineering , business , psychology , medicine , computer science , management , artificial intelligence , economics , programming language , aerospace engineering
Knowledge enhancement is essential to support continuous sustainability of organization in a competitive environment. It is not an exception to an aviation industry. In facing up with future challenges of industrial revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0), studies have shown that one of the issues addressed in ensuring it success is the importance of knowledge among employees. Various activities can be done to enhance knowledge such as by enrolling to academic (undergraduate or postgraduate) programs, attending short courses/training or sitting for professional certification. Furthermore, obtaining postgraduate degrees offers wide exposure to academic and industry environment. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to gauge the understanding on practitioners’ key reasons to further their education at the postgraduate level. Four major constructs established for this study to analyse the aviation practitioners’ intention to further study that are personal needs for continuing education, organization needs, source of funding and teaching and learning facilities. Document review were conducted at the beginning of the study to explore fundamental issues of knowledge enhancement needs among practitioners, meanwhile survey performed were analysed by using Fuzzy Delphi method (FDM). Findings shows that six elements (items) for the whole survey fulfil the criteria of threshold value ( d construct) less than 0.2 and achieved the percentage of expert group consensus more than 75%. This research provides objective and constructive input to university on the major factors influencing aviation practitioner’s decision to further their study at the postgraduate level. The finding becomes avenues for university to draft a better postgraduate program to fulfil the requirement of industry and academic.