A multilevel model linking altruistic motivation to workplace safety: The role of servant leadership

IF 6.2 2区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Organizational Behavior Pub Date : 2023-11-27 DOI:10.1002/job.2761

Yimin He, Zitong Sheng, Mark Griffin, Xiang Yao

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Abstract

Previous research on the motivational factors of safety performance has predominantly focused on one's willingness to directly enact safety behaviors or safety-specific motivation. The current study extends beyond this view and examines an additional motivational force, altruistic motivation, as a main predictor of employees' safety performance at both individual and team levels. Further, we provide that servant leadership serves as a critical precursor of employee altruistic motivation. A sample of 416 nurses in 42 workgroups and their respective supervisors from a hospital in China completed a two-wave survey. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to analyze the data. The results indicated that altruistic motivation was positively related to safety performance at both individual and team levels, with a stronger effect at the team level, supporting a proportional theory of homology. Multilevel mediation results showed that servant leadership was positively related to altruistic motivation, which in turn positively led to safety performance at both individual and team levels. These findings highlight both the theoretical and practical importance of encouraging altruistic motivation to improve workplace safety.

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将利他主义动机与工作场所安全联系起来的多层次模型：仆人式领导的作用

以往关于安全绩效激励因素的研究主要集中在个人直接实施安全行为的意愿或安全特定动机上。当前的研究超越了这一观点，研究了另一种激励力量--利他主义动机，将其作为预测员工在个人和团队层面安全绩效的主要因素。此外，我们还发现，仆人式领导是员工利他主义动机的重要先导。我们对中国某医院 42 个工作组的 416 名护士及其主管进行了两波调查。研究采用层次线性模型对数据进行分析。结果表明，利他主义动机在个人和团队两个层面上都与安全绩效正相关，在团队层面上的影响更大，支持同源性比例理论。多层次中介结果表明，仆人式领导与利他主义动机呈正相关，而利他主义动机又反过来在个人和团队层面上对安全绩效产生积极影响。这些研究结果凸显了鼓励利他主义动机对改善工作场所安全的理论和实践重要性。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Organizational Behavior aims to publish empirical reports and theoretical reviews of research in the field of organizational behavior, wherever in the world that work is conducted. The journal will focus on research and theory in all topics associated with organizational behavior within and across individual, group and organizational levels of analysis, including: -At the individual level: personality, perception, beliefs, attitudes, values, motivation, career behavior, stress, emotions, judgment, and commitment. -At the group level: size, composition, structure, leadership, power, group affect, and politics. -At the organizational level: structure, change, goal-setting, creativity, and human resource management policies and practices. -Across levels: decision-making, performance, job satisfaction, turnover and absenteeism, diversity, careers and career development, equal opportunities, work-life balance, identification, organizational culture and climate, inter-organizational processes, and multi-national and cross-national issues. -Research methodologies in studies of organizational behavior.