scholarly journals Safety-Specific Passive-Avoidant Leadership and Safety Compliance among Chinese Steel Workers: The Moderating Role of Safety Moral Belief and Organizational Size

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2700
Author(s):  
Lin Liu ◽  
Qiang Mei ◽  
Lixin Jiang ◽  
Jinnan Wu ◽  
Suxia Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Moral Belief ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Organizational Size ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Steel Workers ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Passive Avoidant

Despite the documented relationship between active-approaching leadership behaviors and workplace safety, few studies have addressed whether and when passive-avoidant leadership affects safety behavior. This study examined the relationship between two types of safety-specific passive-avoidant leadership, i.e., safety-specific leader reward omission (SLRO) and safety-specific leader punishment omission (SLPO), and safety compliance, as well as the moderating effects of an individual difference (safety moral belief) and an organizational difference (organizational size) in these relationships. These predictions were tested on a sample of 704 steel workers in China. The results showed that, although both SLRO and SLPO are negatively related to safety compliance, SLPO demonstrated a greater effect than SLRO. Moreover, we found that steel workers with high levels of safety moral belief were more resistant to the negative effects of SLRO and SLPO on safety compliance. Although steel workers in large enterprises were more resistant to the negative effects of SLPO than those in small enterprises, the SLRO-compliance relationship is not contingent upon organizational size. The current study enriched the safety leadership literature by demonstrating the detrimental and relative effects of two types of safety-specific passive-avoidant leadership on safety compliance and by identifying two boundary conditions that can buffer these relationships among steel workers.

Authentic leadership, person-organization fit and collectivistic orientation: a moderated-mediated model of workplace safety

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuzhen Liu ◽  
Fulei Chu ◽  
Ming Guo ◽  
Yuanyuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Person Organization Fit ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeWorkplace safety has been a persistent issue for safety-critical organizations. Based on self-verification theory, this study investigates how authentic leadership affects safety behaviors in a collectivistic context.Design/methodology/approachThis research collected 259 matching questionnaires for high-speed railway (HSR) drivers and their supervisors in China. Specifically, HSR drivers were invited to fill in their general perceived authentic leadership, person-organization fit and collectivistic orientation. In addition, their direct supervisors were invited to assess their safety behaviors.FindingsAuthentic leadership exhibits a significant positive impact on safety compliance and safety participation, implying that authentic leadership positively impacts safety behavior. The person-organization fit partially mediated the relationship between authentic leadership and safety behavior (safety compliance and participation). Furthermore, collectivistic orientation moderates the relationship between authentic leadership and person-organization fit.Originality/valueThe findings of this study provide important insights into authentic leadership and person-organization fit for developing effective strategies to improve workplace safety.

scholarly journals Exploring Suppliers’ Approaches toward Workplace Safety Compliance in the Global Garment Sector: From Bangladesh Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Md Sultan Mahmood ◽  
Nilima Haque Ruma ◽  
Toufiq Ahmed ◽  
Yukari Nagai
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Health Rights

The readymade garment (RMG) sector is one of the main drivers of the Bangladesh economy with over 4 million employed. In the 2013 Rana Plaza accident aftermath, the implementation of workplace safety compliance (WSC) became imperative. The paper investigated the WSC initiatives implemented by the RMG sector to overcome safety challenges and their effectiveness for a safe and healthy workplace. We employed a multi-case study research strategy over three Bangladeshi garment manufacturers to resolve these queries. The result revealed that the manufacturers joined in the safety governance programs to protect workers’ health safety rights immediately after the accidents. They participated in inspections and remediations programs over structural, electrical, and fire protection as a priority. Moreover, several other human rights conventions, national labor laws and, buyer code of conduct were also adopted as regulatory and voluntary initiatives to settle workers’ health rights and social needs. The WSC enforcement empowered workers to bargain their rights toward a safe workplace and made them responsible for responding during an emergency. Finally, the paper argues that the WSC in the RMG sector nowadays covers a wide range of initiatives in three broad areas: physical environment safety, workers’ health issues, and workers’ rights.

Leveraging Age Diversity in Times of Demographic Change

2012 ◽  
pp. 163-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Janz ◽  
Claudia Buengeler ◽  
Robert A. Eckhoff ◽  
Astrid C. Homan ◽  
Sven C. Voelpel
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Change ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Social Categorization ◽  
Intergroup Bias ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Older Employees ◽  
Age Diversity

With demographic change, organizations today are seeing changes in societal make-up translated to the composition of their workforce. In the future, younger and older employees will have to work together synergistically to achieve good performance. The authors argue that it will be largely up to leaders to prevent the negative effects of age diversity, i.e. social categorization and intergroup bias, and to facilitate the positive effects of age diversity, i.e. the sharing of unique knowledge resources held by young and old. The authors argue that certain leadership behaviors and especially their combinations have great promise in leading diverse teams, and highlight why they should be used in conjunction with positive beliefs about diversity.

Do we see how they perceive risk? An integrated analysis of risk perception and its effect on workplace safety behavior

2017 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 234-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nini Xia ◽  
Xueqing Wang ◽  
Mark A. Griffin ◽  
Chunlin Wu ◽  
Bingsheng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Perceive Risk

scholarly journals Analysis of Managing Safety in Small Enterprises: Dual-Effects of Employee Prosocial Safety Behavior and Government Inspection

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiwei Wang ◽  
Qiang Mei ◽  
Suxia Liu ◽  
Jingjing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Dynamic Simulations ◽  
External Resources ◽  
The Government ◽  
Medium Enterprises

This paper aims to promote a national and international occupational health and safety (OHS) intervention for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) within internal and external resources. Based on the characteristics of small SME management, the work environment and occupational health may be positively affected by the dual-effects of employees and government. Evolutionary game theory is utilized to identify relevant interactions among the government, small enterprises, and employees. Furthermore, dynamic simulations of the evolutionary game model are used to explore stability strategies and to identify modes of equilibrium.

scholarly journals The effect of organizational commitment on safety behaviors

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-73
Author(s):  
Kwangsu Moon ◽  
Jaehee Lee ◽  
Shezeen Oah
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Normative Commitment ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Compliance Behavior ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Emotional Commitment

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of organizational commitment on safety behavior and to explore moderating effect of safety climate between organizational commitment and safety behaviors. 215 workers were asked to respond to the questionnaires that measured various demographic variables, organizational commitment, safety climate and safety behaviors. A hierarchical regression was conducted to identify variables that had significant relationships with safety behaviors and to examine moderating effect of safety climate between organizational commitment and safety behaviors. Results indicated that the emotional commitment significantly predicted both safety compliance and participation behavior and the normative commitment significantly predicted safety compliance behavior. It was found that the safety climate was also a significant predictor for both safety compliance and participation behavior. In addition, safety climate had a moderating effect on the relation between emotional commitment and safety compliance behavior and normative commitment and safety compliance and participation behavior. Based on these results, the implications of this study and suggestions for future research were discussed.

Positive Behavior and Perceptions of Safety Culture in Academic Research Laboratories

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhitinut Ratnapradipa ◽  
Jonah Lee ◽  
Kendra Ratnapradipa ◽  
Marcus C. Galloway ◽  
Ami Ruffing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Positive Behavior ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Perceptions Of Safety ◽  
New Research

In academic labs, organizational culture is an important consideration for safety compliance. This studyexamined perceptions of risk and safety behavior to target training improvement. College of Science lab person-nel (n = 1,066) were invited participate in a web-based survey with the number of respondents (n=97) and theresponse rate (9.1%). Analysis included descriptive statistics and thematic evaluation. The majority of respondentsrated safety as important and agreed training was sufficient, but believed there was room to improve safety culture.Encouraging use of lab-based safety and risk discussions related to new research procedures was identified as areafor improvement. Perceptions of safety among leadership is important to overall lab culture.

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