Strategic Role of Alumni Associations of Kazakhstan Higher Educational Institutions in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract

The research aims to comprehend the strategic role of alumni associations of Kazakhstan's higher educational institutions in achieving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) sustainability initiatives. The study administered quantitative and qualitative techniques and collected the 310 respondents' opinions with the support of the questionnaire only after checking the reliability and validity using McDonald Omega and Bartlett's test of sphericity. The collected data was summarized, coded, and decoded using Microsoft Excel and R Language R Studio. The six selected hypotheses were tested by administering Cochran's Q test, and the qualitative data was analyzed using the concordance coefficient formula. The significant findings are that 88 percent of people and 83 percent of companies in Kazakhstan strictly follow environmental, social, and governance-related actions and activities. The qualitative research also proved a confident and significant positive orientation among the alumni associations on achieving sustainable development goals.