scholarly journals D6-4　Questionnaire for Construction Worker Risk Taking (Q-CWRT) in Hong Kong

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (Supplement2) ◽  
pp. S584-S587
Author(s):  
Banus K.L. Low ◽  
Alan H. S. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Construction Worker ◽  
Worker Risk

scholarly journals Construction Worker Risk-Taking Behavior Model with Individual and Organizational Factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Low ◽  
Man ◽  
Chan ◽  
Alabdulkarim
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Cognitive Bias ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Construction Worker ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior ◽  
Worker Risk

Behavioral-based safety is an important application of behavioral science that can be used to address safety problems in the construction sector. An understanding of construction worker risk-taking behavior is deemed to be a crucial basis on which concerned authorities and construction companies can develop effective safety interventions to reduce construction accidents. However, no studies have been conducted to examine the effects of safety climate, work condition, attitude toward risk, cognitive bias, and risk perception on construction worker risk-taking behavior through a quantitative approach. Accordingly, this study aims to propose a research model that explains construction worker risk-taking behavior. A total of 188 valid datasets were obtained through a series of questionnaire surveys conducted in representative construction projects in Hong Kong. Confirmatory factor analysis with structural equation modeling was adopted to validate the hypothesized research model. Results show that attitudes toward risk and cognitive bias have a positive influence, whereas risk perception and work conditions have a negative influence on construction worker risk-taking behavior. In addition, safety climate was negatively correlated with construction worker risk-taking behavior. Practical recommendations for reducing construction worker risk-taking behavior are also discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with Urban Risk-Taking Behaviour during 2018 Typhoon Mangkhut: A Cross Sectional Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 4150
Author(s):  
Evan Su Wei Shang ◽  
Eugene Siu Kai Lo ◽  
Zhe Huang ◽  
Kevin Kei Ching Hung ◽  
Emily Ying Yang Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Extreme Events ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
High Risk Behaviour

Although much of the health emergency and disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) literature evaluates methods to protect health assets and mitigate health risks from disasters, there is a lack of research into those who have taken high-risk behaviour during extreme events. The study’s main objective is to examine the association between engaging in high-risk behaviour and factors including sociodemographic characteristics, disaster risk perception and household preparedness during a super typhoon. A computerized randomized digit dialling cross-sectional household survey was conducted in Hong Kong, an urban metropolis, two weeks after the landing of Typhoon Mangkhut. Telephone interviews were conducted in Cantonese with adult residents. The response rate was 23.8% and the sample was representative of the Hong Kong population. Multivariable logistic regressions of 521 respondents adjusted with age and gender found education, income, risk perception and disaster preparedness were insignificantly associated with risk-taking behaviour during typhoons. This suggests that other factors may be involved in driving this behaviour, such as a general tendency to underestimate risk or sensation seeking. Further Health-EDRM research into risk-taking and sensation seeking behaviour during extreme events is needed to identify policy measures.

scholarly journals A mindset of entrepreneurship for sustainability

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 797-811
Author(s):  
Shirley Mo-Ching Yeung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common

This study focuses on exploring the elements needed for entrepreneurship education in the future for generating economic, social and environmental sustainability for the community and for developing future leaders through understanding the existing entrepreneurship related policies, programmes, modules and the perception of teenagers of entrepreneurship skills to realise the importance of a mindset of entrepreneurship and the ways of integrating multidisciplinary knowledge for developing entrepreneurship spirit to meet the challenges of the future. This topic has not been comprehensively explored in the past. After conducting quantitative analysis on 95 undergraduate students of a postsecondary institution in Hong Kong on entrepreneurship skills, the regression results presented in this paper found “entrepreneurship skills include implementation skill” can explain about 33percent of the change in the dependent variable of “sustainable skill sets include building a positive mindset”. And, the mean scores of “entrepreneurship skills include creativity and risk-taking are the same as 4.02 out of a 5-point scale while “dislike handling paperwork with details”, “dislike facing people I don’t know” and “dislike being challenges” received the lowest scores of 2.6, 2.7 and 2.7 respectively. With regard to the qualitative analysis of existing entrepreneurship related programmes, it is found that business, management, finance and contemporary issues are the common elements in existing programmes of which the skills of creativity, risk-taking, socialization, handling details and challenges are lacking. When analysing the meeting notes of UNESCO, APEID in February, 2015 of nine countries (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, China Hong Kong, Japan, and Republic of Korea), there is a trend on the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation mindset with three common concerns, that is, a lack of competent teachers teaching entrepreneurship programmes, a lack of industry exposure and a lack of government support. This paper highlights the key elements of future entrepreneurship related programmes for sustainability. Both educators and policy makers not only need to respond to the ecosystem of entrepreneurship education, but also need to co-produce relevant and meaningful entrepreneurship related modules and programmes which focus on soft skills development for building a positive mindset for handling challenges of the future

Understanding sexual risk taking behaviour in Hong Kong university students

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S.M Abdullah ◽  
R Fielding ◽  
A.J Hedley
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sexual Risk Taking

Relationships between policy, teachers' values and professional capital in teacher collaboration in hierarchical Chinese societies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphnee Hui Lin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Teacher Collaboration ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Professional Capital ◽  
Chinese Societies

PurposeBoth Hong Kong and Singapore leverage teacher collaboration to improve student learning, but state reforms differ in how teacher collaborative capabilities are prioritized. This paper provides a nuanced comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore teachers' values (risk-taking, power distance and uncertainty avoidance) to develop insights into how different policy focuses cultivate teachers' capabilities to focus on improving student learning.Design/methodology/approachEmploying Hargreaves and Fullan's (2012) concept of professional capital, statistical analyses determine teachers' values profiles of high, medium and low professional capital in the respective contexts. Leveraging related research on Singapore teachers (Lee and Lee, 2018), nuances in teachers' values in the Hong Kong results are identified via cluster analysis and explained via structural equation modelling.FindingsMedium professional capital Hong Kong teachers' values matched Singapore's, but teachers in other clusters are nuanced. Compared to Singapore teachers with similar levels of professional capital, high professional capital Hong Kong teachers have higher uncertainty avoidance, while low professional capital teachers are the opposite. In Hong Kong, high uncertainty avoidance values positively influence teacher leadership and focus on student learning. Nevertheless, as with their Singapore counterparts, high professional capital Hong Kong teachers have low power distance and high risk-taking values.Originality/valueThis paper raises awareness regarding policy's influence in cultivating teachers' values and their transformational change capabilities. By comparing two hierarchical Chinese societies, the discussion questions whether Chinese and Western cultural influences are mutually exclusive, and whether transformational change in cultural values, if achievable, is necessary.

Trading Favors for Marketing Advantage: Evidence from Hong Kong, China, and the United States

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kam-hon Lee ◽  
Gong-ming Qian ◽  
Julie H. Yu ◽  
Ying Ho
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
International Marketing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Risky Choice ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Risk Recognition ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Marketing Activities

This study examines the risk-taking paradigm in the context of international marketing activities. It explores the causes of questionable business practices of Hong Kong executives in international marketing activities and further substantiates the findings with two replication samples (i.e., Mainland Chinese executives and U.S. executives). The authors find that the nature of the corruption proposal and the operating business environment affect Hong Kong executives’ risk-taking behavior (i.e., risk recognition, risk adjustment, and risky choice). The behaviors of Mainland Chinese executives and U.S. executives show a different picture. Developmental and cultural differences among the three economies explain the discrepancies.

New Chinese Entrepreneurs

2017 ◽  
pp. 1135-1152
Author(s):  
Connie Zheng ◽  
Bai-Xuan Wang ◽  
Mei-Chih Hu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Enterprise Growth ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Innovative Capabilities ◽  
Chinese Entrepreneurs

This chapter uses a qualitative approach to explore the characteristics of newly-bred Chinese entrepreneurs among 14 technology-based companies in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Internal and external perspectives on studying entrepreneurship were adapted to examine personality attributes and the impacts of social settings on shaping the characteristics of modern Chinese entrepreneurs. The findings show that Chinese entrepreneurs were strongly influenced by the Confucianism, in which learning was upheld as a key to develop internal innovative capabilities for sustaining enterprise growth in the dynamic environment. Chinese entrepreneurs leading technologically innovative companies were also found to be visionary, but with less risk taking; they had exceptional networking capability and political dexterity to build strong relationships with government, industry and community. The tie between the Confucian entrepreneurial attributes and strong government support appears to enable the ‘innovation in Chinese way'. Implications of these results are discussed.

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