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This study explores food safety and sanitation-related competence, self-efficacy, overall behavioral motives, behavioral intentions, behaviors, and the effects of the organizational environment on foodservice employees. Significant positive correlations are found between food safety and sanitation-related competence, self-efficacy, overall behavioral motive, behavioral intention, and food safety-related behavior. A structural equation modeling analysis of those paramters indicated that competence positively affects self-efficacy and overall behavioral motive. The affect on the behavior applied for both self-efficacy and overall behavioral motive and positively influenced behavioral intention and behavior. Thus, the model we obtained a goodness of fit. Improving the organization environment can increase the influence of self-efficacy and behavioral intention on behavior.
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Funding was provided by MOST, Taiwan (Grant No. MOST 105 - 2511 - S - 030 - 001 - MY2).
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Ko, WH., Ni, SH. Establishing a behavioral model for achieving good food safety behaviors by foodservice employees in Taiwan. J Consum Prot Food Saf 15, 63–72 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00003-019-01240-6
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