How Environmental Knowledge Management Promotes Employee Green Behavior: An Empirical Study

Zhang, Wenyao; Xu, Ruzhi; Zhang, Wei

doi:10.3390/ijerph18094738

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“…Second, our results show that attitude mediates the effect of CC knowledge on the improvement of people's abilities. This finding is consistent with earlier studies [60,63], which reported an indirect effect of knowledge, awareness, and risk perception on abilities through environmental attitudes, which is significant. Likewise, Waris & Hameed [64] found that knowledge of ecolabels and altruism have a positive influence on attitudes toward energy-efficient-purchase intention.…”

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Examining the Relationship between the Dimensions of the Climate-Change Competence (C3): Testing for Mediation and Moderation

2022

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The objective of this study is to analyze the positive relationship between different dimensions (knowledge, attitudes, and ability) of the Climate-Change Competence in the participants of a Massive Open Online Course called “Awareness and Training on Climate Change for Primary and Secondary Teachers”. This study describes the use of this competence to introduce Climate Change into formal education and provides an example of how it can be used to design educational interventions to mobilize the students through education. We carried out a correlational research design based on mediation and moderation models using a process macro for questionnaires about the Climate-Change Competence. In this study, we used a sample of 530 people from Spain and Latin America (52% female, mean age = 36.1 years). The findings revealed that knowledge about Climate Change is a good predictor of ability and attitude. Furthermore, we predicted that the relationship between knowledge and ability would be mediated by attitude. Likewise, we hypothesized that attitude is a moderating dimension between knowledge and ability. The results supported our prediction and showed that attitude is a strong mediator in the relationship between knowledge and ability. However, the interaction between knowledge and attitude did not improve the ability to cope with Climate Change. The Climate-Change Competence is an efficient tool to introduce Climate Change into formal education. It can also be used to investigate, for the first time, the relationship between knowledge, ability, and attitude, which is essential to transform education into a necessary tool for mitigation and adaptation

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Examining the Relationship between the Dimensions of the Climate-Change Competence (C3): Testing for Mediation and Moderation

2022

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“…The analysis of scientific literature has detected that environmental knowledge is significantly related to green behavior ( Azila et al, 2012 ; Fawehinmi et al, 2020 ; Zhang et al, 2021 ; Wu et al, 2022 ). These findings are in line with the arguments of Lavuri et al (2021) , who claim that young consumers’ environmental knowledge has a positive and statistically significant influence on their purchasing intention.…”

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“…Green behavior is understood as any action performed with an awareness to preserve natural resources, eco-friendly behaviors, and actions that provide a balance to ecosystems ( Anaya-Hernández and Martínez-Porras, 2018 ). Undoubtedly, green behavior has an effect that minimizes the negative effect generated by daily workplace activities, since individual employee behaviors help achieve organizational sustainability ( Zhang et al, 2021 ). As a consequence of this, multinational companies have begun to introduce sustainability in their management, while small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are less committed ( Rodríguez-Espíndola et al, 2022 ).…”

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Environmental knowledge, perceived behavioral control, and employee green behavior in female employees of small and medium enterprises in Ensenada, Baja California

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Concern for the environment and the diminishing availability of resources is undoubtedly a relevant issue, both personally and organizationally. That is why knowing the factors that affect the occurrence of green behavior is relevant, particularly in SMEs, due to their importance in the economy of all countries, and specifically by the women who work in them, since their participation is gaining more and more preponderance in the Mexican labor force. It is because of the above that the objective of the research was to analyze the effect of environmental knowledge and perceived behavioral control on the employee green behavior of female employees of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Ensenada, Baja California. The study is characterized by having a quantitative approach, a non-experimental, exploratory design and a transverse temporal dimension. 240 questionnaires were applied to female employees of SMEs in Ensenada, Baja California. The data collected was analyzed using structural equation modeling based on the partial least squares technique. The results empirically reflect the following: environmental knowledge has a positive and statistically significant effect on perceived behavioral control and employee green behavior. Also, it was found that the perceived behavioral control variable had a positive and statistically significant effect on the employee green behavior of female employees of SMEs in Ensenada, Baja California. Lastly, it was found that environmental knowledge predicts perceived behavioral control which in turn predicts employee green behavior. In this sense, such findings allow us to consider environmental knowledge and perceived behavioral control as predictive variables of employee green behavior.

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“…Consequently, there is no consensus in the literature about the motivations for recycling behaviour [3,9], and many interventions in changing recycling behaviour have outcomes that are mostly short-lived [5]. Additionally, it is not established whether recycling behaviour is context-specific, given that cross-context studies are extremely rare [7,8].…”

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“…However, consumers are inconsistent across contexts when engaging in recycling [7,8], undermining the effects of psychological factors on recycling behaviour. Moreover, most of the available studies fail to guide employees on how to engage in pro-environmental behaviours [9], especially recycling behaviour in their workplaces [10]. Despite the plethora of studies on recycling [11], our knowledge of recycling, especially across contexts [3,12] and how to promote recycling, is in constant flux [12,13].…”

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Reframing Recycling Behaviour through Consumers’ Perceptions: An Exploratory Investigation

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Despite the increasing awareness of the consequences of waste, there is no consensus on how and why consumers engage in recycling, making it challenging to design behavioural interventions that might promote recycling, especially in organisational settings. This study is designed to explain consumers’ recycling behaviour and how it differs across contexts, particularly between home and work settings. Using personal accounts of 367 employees from different organisations in the UK, this study explores recycling behaviour at home and work including its motivations and barriers. The findings show that recycling behaviour is different across contexts due to many disparate factors underlying people’s waste generation and recycling behaviours from one context to another. According to the findings, buying and consumption behaviour and waste generation patterns influence the way consumers engage in recycling. The study further demonstrates that contextual factors and individual circumstances are important contributors to consumption behaviour, waste production, and recycling behaviour. While recycling behaviour has been investigated extensively, the findings of this study indicate the need for consumption and waste production patterns to be taken into consideration when designing recycling interventions, enhancing the prospect of a circular economy. This study contributes to theory and practice by associating recycling behaviour with buying and consumption behaviour, including waste generation patterns.

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How Environmental Knowledge Management Promotes Employee Green Behavior: An Empirical Study

Cited by 40 publications

References 72 publications

Examining the Relationship between the Dimensions of the Climate-Change Competence (C3): Testing for Mediation and Moderation

Examining the Relationship between the Dimensions of the Climate-Change Competence (C3): Testing for Mediation and Moderation

Environmental knowledge, perceived behavioral control, and employee green behavior in female employees of small and medium enterprises in Ensenada, Baja California

Reframing Recycling Behaviour through Consumers’ Perceptions: An Exploratory Investigation

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