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The Role Of Training And Empowerment In Environmental Performance: A Study Of The Mexican Maquiladora Industry, Bonnie F. Daily, John W. Bishop, Jacob Massoud
The Role Of Training And Empowerment In Environmental Performance: A Study Of The Mexican Maquiladora Industry, Bonnie F. Daily, John W. Bishop, Jacob Massoud
Jacob Massoud
Purpose
– The purpose of this study to propose a model that links the following human resource (HR) factors: employee environmental empowerment, employee environmental training, employee environmental teamwork, managerial environmental empowerment and managerial environmental training, to environmental performance as perceived by managers.
Design/methodology/approach
– A survey was administered to 220 manufacturing organizations in Mexico. The survey instrument was self‐report format with attitudinal variables. Items were adopted from previously published scales. A hypothesized model of the variable relationships with structural equation modelling analysis was tested.
Findings
– The results suggest that managers perceive that both environmental training and environmental empowerment are …