THE GUIDELINES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC WASTE (E-WASTE): A CASE STUDY OF NONG TOK PAN, YANG TALAT, KALASIN

Abstract

          This academic article is to provide recommendations on how to manage the electronic waste (e-Waste). The quantitative approach is applied to collect and analyze data. The in-depth interview is applied to collect data whilst the semi-structured interview is employed to collect the insightful information from the interviewees comprising thirty-two stakeholders. The interviewees are the residents, government officers, and the stakeholders residing in the unit of study and they are the residents who are directly affected by the electronic waste (e-Waste) problems. The Purposive Sampling Strategy and Convenience Sampling Strategy are applied to select the interviewees since they are close to and dealing with the problem investigated in this research During the process of question preparation, the focus group interview, each group contains 4-5 interviewees, is applied to formulate the semi-structured questions derived from 45 interviewees containing twenty-two females and twenty-three males. Furthermore, the pilot study is applied to ensure the trustworthiness of the research with two interviewees; an officer of the Local Government Organization and a resident in the community. In addition, the semi-structured questions are amended to be more concise. The actual interview has taken place from 1^st to 30^th March 2020. In addition, during the interview sessions, observations, notebooks, digital voice recorders are utilized to collect data Finally, the findings indicate that Transformational Leadership, Process Innovation, and Product Innovation are useful to increase levels of satisfaction of the stakeholders in managing the electronic waste (e-Waste). Lastly, the recommendations, implementations, limitations, and suggestions for future research are provided.