Employees working in the financial industry, especially banking staff, suffers from strong occupational stress. This study aims to demonstrate the impact of occupational stress on job satisfaction and job performance of banking credit officers. Research data were collected from 290 bank credit officers working in the commercial banking system in Vietnam. Structural Equation Modeling was applied to analyze the data. The study finds that occupational stress negatively affects job satisfaction and job performance. Besides, job satisfaction has a positive impact on employees’ performance. The research result is a helpful tool for bank managers and employees to control work pressure as well as improve job satisfaction and work outcomes.

Employee engagement has become an emergent topic in recent years among consulting firms and in the popular business press. Many researchers have claimed that employee engagement predicts employee outcomes (e.g. job satisfaction, intentions to quit); closely linked to employees’ innovation; behavior organizational success; and financial performance (e.g. total shareholder return). However, as far as we know, the role of the leader in fostering work engagement has received limited research attention. Furthermore, most extant researches studied the effect of transformational leadership on employee engagement have been for developed economies and the role of transformational leadership and employee engagement in transitional economies such as Vietnam is still unclear. To fill the research gap above, we take advantage of Vietnam’s transitional status to indicate the significant role of psychological empowerment in the circumstance of mediating role between transformational leadership and employee engagement.

Based on arguments of the social exchange theory (SET) and person-organization fit (P-O Fit), the environment can affect personality expression through behaviors and human perception of the environment. This research develops and tests two key assumptions: (1) individuals with proactive personality (PP) show proactive behavior (PB), particularly problem prevention behavior (PrP), through person-organization value congruence (POV), and person-supervisor value congruence (PSV); (2) the strength of the process of demonstrating problem prevention behavior depends on the perceived organizational support (POS) of the staff. Survey results from 715 employees and supervisors at hospitals in Vietnam show that (1) POV and PSV have an intermediary role between PP and PrP, (2) Intermediate effects of POV and PSV in the relationship between PP and PrP are moderated by POS. Specifically, the intermediate effect of POV, PSV is stronger for employees with high POS and lower for employees with lower POS. These findings provide a new perspective on understanding mechanisms to enhance employee’s PrP. As a result, the theoretical, practical implications and limitations of the study are also discussed.

The study identified factors affecting the level of nursing home activity worker’s requirements fulfillment in Vietnam. A quantitative survey was conducted amongst 336 elderly people in Hanoi, Hue, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho, Vietnam. Through the multiple linear regression, the study showed four factors that had significant effects on the level of social worker's requirements fulfillment, including (i) Self-belief in ability, (ii) Ability to create trust, (iii) Emotional expression, (iv) Relationship building skill with elderly residents. The results show that the skills to build relationships with the elderly are most appreciated. On this basis, the study offers some meaningful solutions to enhance the level of requirements fulfillment of social workers when providing support services to the elderly in Vietnam in the near future.

The paper investigates residents’ perception of peri-urban agriculture and analyzed factors affecting their perception of agricultural roles in a suburb area of Hanoi city. The research results indicate that although on-farm income has been decreased in comparison with off-farm ones, most of respondents still see agriculture is important because of its income contribution, job provision, food security and food safety, land property right and communal relationship maintenance. Household’s livelihood strategy is the most vital factor affecting residents’ perception of agricultural income contribution and employment creation, whereas educational level influences their perception of agricultural roles in food security and food safety most. Further, respondents’ age strongly affects their idea of maintaining communal relationship through peri-urban agricultural production.

This study aims to examine the factors affecting public investment results in educational institutions in Vietnam. The study uses exploratory factor analysis (EFA) as well as regression estimate to determine the factors. The results show that factors affecting public investment results include public investment management, human resources to carry out public investment activities and to organize public investment, economic conditions, legal policies and natural conditions. These factors have different levels of influence on the results of public investment in educational institutions in Vietnam. From the results of that study, the authors propose recommendations to enhance the results of public investment activities at educational institutions in Vietnam.

This article aims to identify the drivers of the life satisfaction and happiness according to basic demands explored in motivational theories and the inclusion of the need for association participation. Structured questionnaire was directly delivered to 454 poor families living in nine districts of Can Tho. The data was processed by using SmartPLS with partial least squares (PLS) technique. The study found that existence needs, growth needs and needs of association participation can mostly explain the model which remarkably contribute to the literature of life satisfaction and happiness. In addition, the needs for association participation and life satisfaction positively affect people’s life happiness. In order to improve the living standards of local people, the government should clearly understand what residents really target to in life and fundamental demands of survive and self-development should be carefully considered and supported by the local authority and private organizations.

Turning recycled plastic waste into fashion products is an uprising trend that creates efficiencies and sustainability for both economic development and the environment. However, in Vietnam, the recycled-from-plastic-waste fashion industry is still underdeveloped. By using statistical inference method and primary data sources, the research determines factors that influence consumption behavior towards fashion products made by recycled plastic waste in Hanoi. Research results indicate that prices, product quality, and community influence impact on consumer behavior. In particular, community influence is considered as a new factor which is further investigated in accordance with conditions in Vietnam. Ultimately, the research proposes a number of recommendations for recycled fashion products manufacturing business in Vietnam.

This study investigates the influences of job demands, work exhaustion, and job satisfaction on turnover intention among Vietnamese civil service employees. Additionally, the correlation between social support and job motivation with job satisfaction and turnover intention are also examined. A structural equation modeling technique was employed to conduct the data analysis with a survey of 318 civil service employees working in 10 different departments in the public sector. The results reveal that job demands had a positive association with both work exhaustion and turnover intention. In contrast, work exhaustion and job satisfaction are both significantly related to turnover intention. Surprisingly, the adverse effects of social support and job motivation on work exhaustion are insignificant. In addition to theoretical high-lights, our study provides practical implications and managerial recommendations for government agencies in the public sector to minimize the turnover rate and retain their employees.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the importance of factors that influence entrepreneurial intention among tourism undergraduate students in Vietnam. A research framework based on Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was proposed to understand the relationship between the TPB factors and entrepreneurial intention. Additionally, the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention was also investigated. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 388 tourism undergraduate students at different universities across Vietnam. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method was utilized to test the hypotheses of this research. The study findings show that subjective norms (SN), attitude toward entrepreneurship (AE), perceived behavioral control (PBC) and entrepreneurship education (EE) had direct effects on entrepreneurial intention (EI); however, perceived behavioral control had the strongest influence on entrepreneurial intention. The findings provide educators with insights into how to promote entrepreneurship activities among tourism undergraduate students in Vietnam through educational programs and training.