The intention to adopt safety and health practices among workers in the manufacturing companies in surrounding area of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

• मुख्य लेखक: Merryem Brendalynne P Juanico
• स्वरूप: थीसिस
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी; अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: 2015
• विषय: T1-995 Technology (General)
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38095/1/24%20PAGES.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38095/2/FULLTEXT.pdf

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between knowledge, past experience and personal value of manufacturing workers and intention to adopt safety and health practices and attitude as mediator effect. This study includes of three external variables which are knowledge, past experience and personal value, three independent variables consists of attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control and lastly one dependent variable which are intention. This study applies the theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to test the proposed relationship. The participant in this study is employee who works in manufacturing company. This study used the partial least squares (PLS) and structural equation modeling (SEM) tool to examine the relationship between knowledge, past experience, and personal value of manufacturing workers intention to adopt safety and health practices. It also measures the mediating effect of attitude on knowledge, past experience and personal value. The data were collected from manufacturing companies in Kata Kinabalu, Sabah by using non-proability sampling. Convergent and discriminant validity have been employed and the result shows knowledge and personal values have significant relationship with attitude towards safety and health practices. Meanwhile, past experience shows negative relationship with attitude. Next, attitude and subjective norm indicates positive relationship towards the intention to adopt safety and health practices. However, perceived behavioral control revealed negative relationship with the intention. Apart from that, attitude was found to be mediates the impact of knowledge, past experience and personal values towards the intention to adopt safety and health practices. Therefore, the result implies that manager should emphasize on the safety and health practices to enhance organization and workers productivity. Limitation and suggestion for future study are also included in this study.