A multigroup analysis focusing on assessing the green behavior of university employees for greening the workplace: a signaling theory perspective

作者：Gábor Szabó-Szentgróti, M. Miah, Virág Walter · 发表于：Asian Education and Development Studies · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1108/aeds-02-2025-0084 · 被引用次数：2

This study aims to examine the effects of Top Management Commitment to Greening the Workplace (TMCGW) on Employee Green Behavior (EGB) through the mediating role of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) and employee Green Self-Efficacy (GSE) at universities in Bangladesh. In addition, it aims to find the differentiating impact of these relationships between academic and non-academic employees in the university. Researchers employed partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in an empirical study grounded in a conceptual model derived from existing literature. The sample size is 288 Bangladeshi university employees: academics (171) and non-academics (117). The study is non-random, particularly convenient sampling with self-administered questionnaires for data collection. The overall sample’s findings have revealed that TMCGW positively affects GHRM, which in turn fully mediates the relationship with EGB. In the overall sample, TMCGW also positively affects employee GSE, which in turn fully mediates the relationship with EGB. In addition, in the academic sample, TMCGW has a positive influence on employee GSE, which in turn fully mediates the relationship with EGB; however, GHRM doesn’t mediate the relationship between TMCGW and EGB. Furthermore, in the non-academic sample, TMCGW positively affects GHRM, which in turn fully mediates the relationship with EGB, but TMCGW positively affects employee GSE, with GSE not mediating between TMCGW and ...