Open AccessResearch on Energy Conservation Behavior of Public Institution Personnel from the Perspective of “Espoused and Enacted Values”
Author(s) -
Lei Yang,
Peng Du,
Zhang Hui-xia,
Bixi Cheng
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/821/1/012006
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , energy (signal processing) , institution , public relations , affect (linguistics) , energy conservation , neutrality , organizational commitment , public institution , business , attitude , psychology , social psychology , political science , engineering , law , statistics , mathematics , electrical engineering , communication , artificial intelligence , computer science
Literatures on individual energy saving behavior have focused on the households level, while few studies analyzed from the perspective of employees with public institutions as background. To achieve the vision of carbon neutrality, public institutions should play an exemplary and leading role. This paper constructs an energy saving “Espoused and Enacted Values” model to explore the influencing factors of energy saving behavior of staff in public institutions. The results show that organizational attitude has a significant positive effect on individual energy saving behavior. Organizational behavior has a mediating effect between organizational attitude and individual behavior, and the mediating effect is higher than the direct effect. Personal attitude has a significant positive effect on personal behavior, and personal attitude mediates the relationship between organizational attitude and personal behavior. That means on the one hand the energy conservation policy propaganda of the public organization can directly promote energy saving behavior of public institutions personnel and indirectly promote their behavior by transferring the organizational attitude. On the other hand, the policy propaganda contributes to the execution of substantial energy management activities, which will further affect the energy conservation behavior of the staff in public institutions.