NIDA Development Journal

Wage-Gender Inequality in Labor Market: Discrimination or Others

Naphat Wuttaphan — 2024-12-19

The wage-gender inequality and discrimination has been intensively examined for sustainable development goals. This paper investigates empirical potential estimation and the extent of wage-gender inequality both traditional and contemporary analysis. Understanding the source of wage-gender discrimination and inequality gap will possibly assist HRD professionals to design the HRD policy and implementation more manageable by analyzing the scope and patterns of the gender pay gap and identifying possible reasons for its existence. This paper emphasizes the wage-gender discrimination concepts, factors affecting wage inequality in the labor market which are heterogeneous jobs, heterogeneous workers, labor market discrimination, as well as the related psychological factors that might affect wage-gender discrimination. Moreover, the role and how HRD professionals could possibly help to handle wage-gender discrimination and inequality will be discussed.

The Household E-Waste Management in Thailand: Challenges and Opportunities towards Circular Economy

Aweewan Panyagometh — 2024-12-19

Thailand has been facing challenges in handling e-waste as the country does not have regulations on e-waste management. Most of the practices are being performed by informal sectors that lack technology, infrastructure, and knowledge. This research aims to understand the e-waste management and challenges and opportunities towards circular economy. The results show that the transportation distances from households to recycling facilities passes through many middlemen before arriving at a recycling company’s gate. If this e-waste had been collected and recycled, it can create value added and reduce CO2 emissions at the same time. To achieve the circular economy, the logistic should be improved. For certain type of e-waste, the fee might be charged form consumers. Full recycling facilities (e.g. circuit board, battery) is needed. Appropriate legislation dealing specifically with e-waste, control of its dumping, implementation of extended producer responsibilities are the key issues to promote circular economy of e-waste.

The Importance of Food Hygiene in Building Customer Trust and Repurchase Intentions in Bangkok Street Food for Sustainable Development

Akaraphun Ratasuk — 2024-12-19

This empirical study investigated the impact of perceived food hygiene on customer repurchase intentions in the street food business in Bangkok and the mediation of customer trust as its mechanism. This quantitative research employed stratified random sampling, ensuring that the sample is a good representation of the population of interest. Survey data were collected from 477 street food customers in Bangkok and were computed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results indicated that perceived food hygiene directly impacts customer repurchase intentions and trust, and customer trust positively influences repurchase intentions. As a result, Sobel’s test results showed partial positive moderation of customer trust between perceived food hygiene and repurchase intentions. The findings confirmed the necessity of food hygiene in promoting customer trust and repurchase intentions and the role of customer trust as the mechanism of how food hygiene promotes customer repurchase intentions. The research also provided helpful guidelines for street food operators and relevant government units and authorities assigned to develop and raise standards to improve the street food industry, following sustainable development goals to provide a higher standard of living for people.

The The Roles of Work- and Social-Related Social Media Usage in Facilitating Firm-Level Creative Capital and Innovative Job Performance

Xuemei Sun — 2024-12-19

The use of social media in the workplace has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. While social media platforms can offer a range of benefits to organizations, including increased communication and collaboration, their impact on employee creativity remains unclear and organizational sustainable development. This study was grounded in social information processing theory to investigate the effects of both work-related and social-related social media usage on firm-level creative capital and employees’ innovative job performance. By applying a hybrid sampling design of snowball sampling method and convenience sampling method, 381 Chinese employees in mainland China were collected. The findings of the PLS-SEM analysis revealed that the proposed model has moderate explaining power on innovative job performance (R² = .59) and firm-level creative capital (R² = .40). This study provides empirical evidence supporting the social information processing theory from the social media perspective. Besides, the results suggest that managers should encourage and support the appropriate use of social media platforms by facilitating employees' participation in professional networks, providing access to collaboration tools, and recognizing innovative use of social media.

Determinants of intention and behavior of responsible consumption through reduce waste generation in Thailand.

Vesarach Aumeboonsuke — 2024-12-19

The purpose of this research was to investigate the determinants of intention and behavior of responsible consumption through reduce waste generation in Thailand. Reduce waste generation is one of the targets under Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG12), responsible consumption and production. The four components in reducing waste generation under this study are prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse. An analysis was conducted by employing the theory of planned behavior (TPB) model that examined associations among attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, intention, and behavior. Additionally, knowledge about waste management was included in the TPB. The results were obtained based on the survey data from 174 participants in Thailand during May 2023. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed to examine the path associations between each variable in the research framework. The evidence from this study was beneficial to understand how the intention and behavior of Thai people toward reduce waste generation are determined by attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and households’ knowledge on waste management. More importantly, it was beneficial for policy makers to form optimal strategies aimed to promote the intention and behavior to reduce waste generation and to further achieve responsible consumption under SDG12.