This paper aims to measure consumer awareness of environmentally friendly products in the context of United Arab Emirates. The study also intends to measure the effect of consumer awareness on the customer intention to purchase environmentally friendly products and whether or not consumer attitudes mediate this relationship. A self-administered survey was delivered using google form tool to reach as many respondents as possible, where a link to survey has been shared by emails, the respondent randomly selected from United Arab Emirates. A total of 174 responses has been received of which 7 responses dropped for being not complete, resulting in 167 useful responses. Content validity has been done to ensure the items are clearly understood, which is accomplished by consulting two academicians who are familiar with this field of study. SPSS statistical package version 22 has been used to test the hypotheses of this research. Based on data analysis, it has been found that Environmental Awareness positively and significantly affects Consumers’ Attitudes toward environmentally friendly products and Green products Purchase Intention, respectively. Furthermore, a positive and significant relationship between Consumers’ Attitudes towards environmentally friendly products and Purchase Intention is detected. However, the proposed mediating role of Attitudes in the relationship between Environmental Awareness and Purchase Intention was not supported.

Entrepreneurs who are operating small businesses focus on faster growth of their firms through greater wealth creation. This wealth creation process requires skill and investment in terms of time and capital. However, the success or failure of entrepreneurial teams depends on personality differences among the entrepreneurs. In this context, the present study explores the impact of the Big 5 model traits on the team entrepreneurship and the performance of the ventures among the small businesses in the UAE. Further, the study encapsulates how these personality traits can help in solving business problems and achieving long term success for the business. In this regard, the researcher conducted a survey on 49 employees working in 5 entrepreneurial businesses in UAE. The findings of the study highlighted that sub-factors of big five leadership traits broad-minded, gregarious, assertive, responsible, anxious and emotionally depressed, significantly impact the team entrepreneurship of small businesses in the UAE, aiding in increased customer base, venture skills, stock values, and innovating of new products.

The purpose of this study is to measure the role of job stress among the academic staff of the public universities of UAE. A survey was conducted among 350 academic staffs of the public universities across UAE, concerning the trends of job stress and satisfaction and a possible relationship between these two variables. Primary data analysis reveal that the public universities showed different directions for varying forms of job stress. Moreover, five types of stressors were found to be significant for the academic staff at the universities and when they were tested on job stress, the results revealed the significant impact on job stress. More specifically, pay, and growth stressors as well as work-related stressors were found to negatively influence job stress for the academic staff. Future research of time series analysis can be conducted to understand the trends of stress under different situations over time for academic staff.