Assessment of Enhancing Employee Engagement in Energy-Saving Behavior at Workplace: An Empirical Study

Abstract

This paper investigates the possible benefits and effects of energy-saving attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and the behavioral intention of employees on habits in the workplace. The total sample size was 322 respondents. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were used for the statistical analysis. The analytical results indicate that energy-saving attitude and perceived behavioral control correlate positively with the employees’ energy-saving habits. However, the subjective norm does not have a positive correlation with employees’ energy-saving habits. In addition, an examination of the mediating effect reveals that employees’ behavioral intentions are a significant mediator for energy-saving attitude, the subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control of the employees’ energy-saving habit. Moreover, this study provides a framework for the management of energy-saving in the workplace, and closes with a discussion on the theoretical and practical implications of the research findings.

Factors Affecting Energy-Saving Intentions among Youth in Vietnam

“…For youth, social pressures, especially those from friends, are strong explanatory factors for behavioral intentions (Bao et al, 2023). Several studies have demonstrated that subjective norms have a positive impact on energy-saving intentions (Zhang et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2017;Ding et al, 2019;Bonan et al, 2020;Hien and Chi, 2020;Xu et al, 2020;Chen and Chen, 2021;Tverskoi et al, 2021;Si-Dai et al, 2021;Hao et al, 2022). Therefore, the research hypothesis H2 is proposed as follows: Subjective norms positively impact the energy-saving intentions of youth.…”

“…Perceived behavioral control is a crucial factor in predicting an individual's future behavior (Klöckner, 2013;Bosnjak et al, 2020;La Barbera and Ajzen, 2020). In the field of energy saving, perceived behavioral control has been shown to have a positive impact on energy-saving intentions (Zhang et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2018;Chen and Chen, 2021;Fu et al, 2021;Wang et al, 2021;Ahmad et al, 2022;Hao et al, 2022;Nguyen and Hoang, 2022). Therefore, the research hypothesis H3 is proposed as follows: Perceived behavioral control positively affects the energy-saving intentions of youth.…”

Determinants of Employees’ Personal and Collective Energy Consumption and Conservation at Work

“…Traditionally, researchers focus on individual-level factors and decision making when examining energy-consumption behaviour, but this perspective is limited since people belong to groups and need to act collectively in several contexts [46]. A workplace (and office buildings in particular) is one such context and although a number of energy-consumption behaviours can be enacted individually, there are many behaviours that require cooperation between employees, as energy is consumed collectively through shared devices and switching off a shared device needs to be agreed-upon between its co-users [76]. Indeed, in an organisational setting, employee energy conservation entails actions that could either be solely personally performed (e.g., operating a personal computer) or as a member of a group of employees (e.g., operating a space cooling device in a shared office space).…”

Smart Cities and Awareness of Sustainable Communities Related to Demand Response Programs: Data Processing with First-Order and Hierarchical Confirmatory Factor Analyses

“…More studies on influencing factors related to energy management in industries [19], assessing the employees' engagement in energy-saving [20], residential consumers' lifestyle and energy saving [21], and experience in green energy learning [22] were recently performed using CFA and sometimes SEM to identify future trends. The authors of [19] aimed to analyze the influencing factors on energy management in industries from several perspectives with CFA.…”