Green product purchase intention: Impact of environmental concern, self-expressive benefits, and behavioral factors

The increased concerns on environmental issues have affected business activities and consumers' buying behavior. Responding to this, firms began to engage in green production as consumers purchased and embraced green products. therefore, this study aims to examine the influence of environmental concern, self-expressive benefits, and behavioral factors on purchasing behavior towards green cleaning brands. Behavioral factors include attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control on the purchase intention toward green cleaning attitude. A questionnaire was utilized to gather the data and a convenience sampling technique was used for this study. The model is based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and analyzed using the PLS-SEM approach from data collected from 289 young adult consumers. The findings revealed that purchase intention for green cleaning brands was significantly and driven by attitude towards green cleaning brands, perceived behavioral control, self-expressive benefits, and environmental concern directly and indirectly via the mediating role of attitude toward green cleaning brands. Subjective norm was found to be insignificant on purchase intention toward green cleaning brands. The article has shown that the extended TPB is applicable and provides valuable inputs to policymakers and marketers to design green marketing policies and strategies to promote green consumerism in Malaysia

THE IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTIVE LEADERSHIP IN THE SEWERAGE OPERATION INDUSTRY IN MALAYSIA: A CASE OF INDAH WATER KONSORTIUMPRIVATE LIMITED (IWK)

Purpose: This study intends to determine the importance of Supportive Leadership in the sewerage operation industry since the nature of work itself, together with workload and pressure, has resulted in severe occupational stress among the workers; consequently, it would translate into poor work commitment. Methodology: The random sample was obtained from the sampling frame, which consists of employees of the sewerage operation company in Malaysia, namely, Indah water Konsortium (IWK). Data was gathered using a self-administered questionnaire given to the randomly selected respondents. Meanwhile, data were analyzed using the second-generation method of multivariate analysis called Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in IBM-SPSS-AMOS 24.0. Furthermore, the results were reconfirmed through bootstrapping procedures. Result: The study found Supportive Leadership fully mediates the relationship between Occupational Stress and Work Commitment. The finding of this research indicates that in this particular industry, Supportive Leadership is extremely important to transform from negative Work Commitment to positive and significant Work Commitment from the employees. Applications: The management of sewerage operation industries needs to be supportive of their workers in order to obtain a positive and significant commitment from the workers amid the work pressure and stress. Novelty/Originality: Unlike other industries, the sewerage operation industry (in Malaysia) is pre-occupied with work burden and under tremendous work pressure. The study that links occupational stress and work commitment are scarce, especially in this particular industry, and in developing countries like Malaysia

The impact of psychological safety climate on individual safety performance in the Malaysian manufacturing small enterprise: the role of psychological factor and psychological work ownership

Small Medium Enterprises have been recognized as a back bone of Malaysia economic.Instead of significant contribution to the national economy, their contribution to the total occupational accident substantially high.This present work aims to investigate the role of psychological work ownership and psychological factors in the relationship between safety climate and safety performance (individual level) in the Malaysian manufacturing small enterprise.Random stratified sampling design was successfully implemented in Malaysian manufacturing small enterprise involving 11 firms in seven districts of the East Coast Region of Malaysia.The model revealed a significant positive relationship between psychological safety climate positively and individual safety performance.Results based on a sample of 240 employees supported the conceptual framework, indicating that the effect of psychological factors and psychological work ownership has an essential practical role in, encourages psychological safety climate, with subsequent prediction of individual safety performance events mediated by psychological safety climate. Implications for theory, practical and recommendation research on psychological climate, ownership, and performance for further research are discussed

THE DIRECT EFFECT OF CLIMATE EMERGENCY AND SAFETY CLIMATE ON INTENTION TO SAFETY BEHAVIOR: A STUDY

Purpose of the study: The main objective of this study was to examine the effect of climate emergence (i.e., work ownership, Islamic work ethic, and employee safety climate) on the intention of safety behavior. Methodology: The research framework was developed based on the Theory of Planned Behavior and Social Exchange Theory. Stratified random sampling was used to collect data from 400 first-line operators and supervisors within the Small Medium Enterprise. A total of 250 useable questionnaires with a response rate of 75% were used for data analysis. The five proposed hypotheses were tested using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in IBM-SPSS-AMOS. Main Findings: The results indicate that climate emergence factors have a positive and significant effect on employee intention to safety behavior. Furthermore, employee safety climate found to be the strongest predictor of employee intention to safety behavior, while other climate emergence factors do not have a direct effect on the intention of safety behavior. The model accounted for 76% of the variance in climate emergence in the context of intention to safety behavior. Applications of this study: The results obtained from this study contribute to the improvement of proactive safety performance measures in the small-medium enterprise. However, further efforts are required to achieve the enhanced safety performance level Novelty/Originality of this study: This study adds to the existing psychological literature on climate and employee safety behavior. This present study enhanced the climate-based construct by improving the safety performance measurement for small-medium enterprises

THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYEE SAFETY CLIMATE ON SAFETY BEHAVIOR IN SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Purpose of the study: The objective of this study is to examine the mediation effect of ESC on the relationship between climate constructs and intention to Safety in small and medium enterprises. Methodology: A structured self-administrative questionnaire was distributed to the employee of the small-medium enterprise in Peninsular Malaysia using simple random sampling. The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) procedure were carried out to filter the items and validate the constructs in the study. The study tested the proposed hypotheses using the second-generation method of multivariate analysis Structural Equation Modelling (SEM. Furthermore, the results were confirmed through the bootstrapping procedure. All analysis of this study was conducted using IBM-SPSS-AMOS version 24.0. Main Findings: All items retained from EFA results were rearranged for the field study questionnaire. The CFA results indicated that the absolute fit index (RMSEA= 0.071) CFI = 0.975, TLC = 0.964, chisq/df = 2.431 achieved the requirement level. The results of this present study revealed that employee safety climate mediated the relationship between WO, IWE, and intention to safety behavior. Additionally, results indicated that ESC is the most prominent factor of intention to safety behavior. Applications of this study: The results from this study contribute to the improvement of proactive safety performance measures in small-medium enterprises, but further efforts are required for achieving an excellent safety performance level. Novelty/Originality of this study: The present study adds to the literature of safety performance and provides direction for future research work in this area. Additionally, the results of this present study mark an important step towards standardizing the measurement of safety climate in small and medium industries

Mediating effect of psychological safety climate in the relationship between psychological factors and individual safety performance in the Malaysian manufacturing small enterprises

SME is a backbone of Malaysian economic development, however high number of occupational accident and injuries are major financial issues. Many meta-analysis of the safety climate and safety performance consistently indicated that associate with the reduction in the number of accident occurrence in the organization.Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the mediating effects of on psychological safety climate in the relationship between psychological factors and individual safety performance in the Malaysian manufacturing small enterprise. Quantitative research using self-administrative questionnaires have been conducted on 377 employees from 11 small manufacturing enterprise firms based on stratified random sampling. The response rate was at 65 % from 240 returned questionnaires.The results of a preliminary validation showed that the scale is a reliable and valid instrument to measure the essential elements of psychological safety climate for Malaysian manufacturing small enterprise.The result confirmed that here were strong positive correlations between psychological safety climate and individual safety performance. As predicted, psychological safety climate found to be directly influenced by psychological factor but psychological factor not directly correlated with individual safety performance.Besides that, the findings of this study revealed that psychological safety climate significantly mediated the relationship between psychological factor and individual safety performance.Finally, the implications and suggestions for future studies and practice are discussed

An explicit investigation of occupational stress and safety behavior on the relationships between supportive leadership and safety compliance in sewerage industry

This study aims to examine the influence of supportive leadership on occupational stress, safety behaviour and safety compliance of workers working in Indah Water Konsortium Sdn. Bhd. (IWK) Malaysia. Moreover, the study intends to investigate the mediational role of occupational stress and safety behaviour. Supportive leadership negatively influence occupational stress while positively influencing safety behaviour. Occupational stress put a negative effect on safety behaviour and safety compliance, while safety behaviour has a positive effect on safety compliance. Supportive leadership positively influences safety compliance. Occupational stress and safety behaviour partially mediate the relationship between supportive leadership and safety compliance. The outcomes of this study offer significant insights into the management of Indah Water Konsortium Sdn. Bhd. (IWK) to reduce occupational stress, encourage safety behaviour, and improve safety compliance by providing supportive leadership to the workers. Unlike other industries, the sewerage operation industry (in Malaysia) is under an intensive work burden and work pressure that eventually causes occupational stress, lack of safety compliance and ignorance of safety behaviours among workers. The link of supportive leadership with safety compliance is scared with the mediating role of occupational stress and safety behaviour, especially in the sewerage industry particularly in developing countries such as Malaysia

A step by step of content validity assessment process on approach towards safety knowledge, safety climate and SMEs safety performance framework

This article examines the issues and the conceptual basis in the operationalized definition of safety knowledge. The importance of safety knowledge emphasizes the mediation role of safety knowledge in the indirect link between safety climate and safety performance assessment in small and medium enterprises and the functional nature of content validity by applying a step-by-step content validity assessment. A content validation assessment process aims to increase representativeness, relevancy, clarity, comprehensiveness of the measurement's validity besides to ensure the instrument answers the research question. In business, social science, and management science, many variables of interest and research outcomes are abstract concepts and its function by robust theoretical and conceptual explanation. Thus, a step-by-step content validity assessment offered a bridge to achieve a valid and reliable measurement, and it was an essential element of quality research

A Bright Sight of Green Product Market in Malaysia: An Empirical Evidence Using Structural Equation Modelling

Purpose: This study aims to examine the influence of environmental concern, utilitarian benefits, and self-expressive benefits on the attitudes toward green cleaning brands. Additionally, the effect of a moderating variable (attitudes toward green cleaning brand) on purchase intention for green brands (cleaning) (PI) this formation process is examined in the context of developing country of green purchasing behavior. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected using an online self-administered survey to 400 consumers in Malaysia through the purposive sampling method. The model is based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Descriptive statistics were analyzed using SPSS, and SmartPLS 3.3.3 was used for; a partial least square-structural equation modelling procedure to analyse the postulated study hypotheses. Findings: The results demonstrate that purchase intention for green brands (cleaning) (PI) was directly and significantly driven by Self-expressive benefits (SE), utilitarian benefits (UB), and environmental concern (EC). Attitude towards green brands (cleaning) mediates the relationship between three antecedents of attitude and purchase intention for green brands (cleaning) (PI). Research limitations/implications: The current study is limited to the geographical area, of Sabah, Malaysia during Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, generalizability and gain a better knowledge of the overall context is limited. Practical implications: The current model brings a bright sight of the green product market to stakeholders to meet the rising need for ecologically friendly cleaning products and help to improve the environmental sustainability and benefits to the consumer. Directions for further research are suggested. Originality/value: This study guided green firms on cultivating the various behavioral aspects under TPB factors with their consumers over time, with a stronger emphasis on encouraging adoption/purchase behaviors

The estimation trend of Malaysian SME occupational safety and health statistic

The statistic on occupational safety and health has received considerable attention in the SME industry regarding to the vital role of the SME in the Malaysian economy to become a developed country by the year 2020. However, the official statistic specific on SME related occupational safety and health still una-vailable. Thus, the secondary data related to estimation statistic refer to the Department of Statistic (DOS) since 2001 until 2012 were used. Estimation related statistic is adapted from the Global Estimates of Occupational Accidents and Work-related Illnesses 2014. The total number of occupational accident and fatalities average high within ten years. Whereas a number of the accident decrease during 2002 to 2007 with the involvement of 85926 to 56339 cases, nevertheless, four years later trend drastically in-creased. Approximately ten thousand fatal occupational related diseases as 2014. In addition, the cost of compensation claims related occupational accident report increase in 2012 as well as disease and sur-vival recipient. Overall cost of occupational accident increase every year. Presently, this study provided useful hints of implication of ignoring safety to encourage improvement of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), enhance effectiveness of company operational cost, and stimulate prevention at the SME level substantially great approach to the Malaysian economic development