Responsible leadership and workplace safety: do safety culture and safety motivation matter?

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Moses Ahomka Yeboah, Mustapha Kalvei, Linda Obeng Ansong, Abraham Ansong
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Abstract

Purpose

We sought to examine the effect of responsible leadership on employee safety in the workplace both directly and indirectly through mediation effects of safety motivation and safety culture in the oil and gas industry in Ghana.

Design/methodology/approach

We employed a quantitative approach (survey) to collect data from 226 pump attendants of the fuel stations in the Accra Metropolis. This study used PLS-SEM to test the research hypotheses in the study.

Findings

Our findings show that leaders’ responsible behaviours had a positive and significant impact on both their employees’ wellbeing and safety as well as their motivation to adhere to safety standards and also imbibe a sense of safety culture in the workplace. Furthermore, the inclusion of safety motivation and safety culture as mediating variables reveal that leaders’ ability to achieve a robust workplace safety through responsible leadership was partially contingent on these organisational factors.

Practical implications

We highlight that leaders should continuously improve their responsible leadership behaviours and also the management of oil and gas companies should encourage managers to focus on day-to-day interactions with employees on safety-related matters (e.g. effectively inspiring and motivating employees to adhere to safety standards and procedures and applying sanctions when necessary).

Originality/value

This study answers the recent calls for a contingency perspective on the relationship between leadership styles and organisational/employee level outcomes by providing empirical support for our conceptual model which identifies safety motivation and safety culture as important organisational factors by which responsible leaders can positively influence workplace safety.

负责任的领导与工作场所安全:安全文化和安全动机重要吗?
目的我们试图通过加纳石油和天然气行业安全动机和安全文化的中介效应,研究负责任的领导对员工工作场所安全的直接和间接影响。研究结果我们的研究结果表明,领导者负责任的行为对员工的福利和安全、遵守安全标准的积极性以及工作场所的安全文化氛围都有积极而重要的影响。此外,将安全动机和安全文化作为中介变量表明,领导者通过负责任的领导方式实现强有力的工作场所安全的能力部分取决于这些组织因素。 实际意义我们强调,领导者应不断改进其负责任的领导行为,石油和天然气公司的管理层也应鼓励管理者将重点放在与员工就安全相关事宜进行的日常互动上(例如,有效激发和激励员工遵守安全标准)。原创性/价值本研究回应了近期关于从权变角度研究领导风格与组织/员工层面结果之间关系的呼吁,为我们的概念模型提供了实证支持,该模型将安全激励和安全文化确定为重要的组织因素,负责任的领导者可通过这些因素对工作场所安全产生积极影响。
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CiteScore
7.20
自引率
13.20%
发文量
69
期刊介绍: The Asia Pacific Journal of Business Administration (APJBA) publishes original research on: Business Strategy and Policy, Accounting and Board Governance, Marketing and People Management, and Operations and Supply Chain Management. The journal welcomes practical and skill-based submissions in these areas. There is particular interest in submissions regarding: Sustainable Business Practices, Quality Management Practices, Innovation and Creativity in Management, as well as Managing a Learning Organisation. The Asia Pacific region is full of collaborations between government, NGOs and private enterprise. Submissions are welcome which contribute to our understanding of partnerships and the cross-cultural issues. Research methods vary, and the journal is interested in the full diverse of qualitative (case and action research, etc) as well as quantitative survey studies and their recommendations. The APJBA seeks to become a forum for both established scholars and early career researchers in all aspects of management and business in the Asia-Pacific region. Emphasis is on rigour and relevance, on theory and practice, in a globalised scholarly environment.
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