Safety culture as competitive advantage for slovenian natural health resorts

IF 1.5 Q3 MANAGEMENT

Human systems management Pub Date : 2023-04-05 DOI:10.3233/hsm-220176

J. Mekinc, Sebastjan Repnik, D. Edgar, Anita Trnavcevic, Borut Kodric

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BACKGROUND: Many studies are focused on safety culture. There is no study on employees’ perceptions of safety culture in natural health resorts. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine the concept of safety culture from the perspective of the employees in natural health resorts in Slovenia. METHODS: The survey was administered to a sample of 268 employees in six Slovenian natural health resorts to measure the attitudes, practices/behaviors, knowledge, and training of employees. RESULTS: The results of the survey did not show a statistical correlation between the employees’ safety attitudes and their age, their level of education and their position within the organization. However, this study revealed significant differences in understanding of the safety measures and selected safety attitudes across six resorts. Similarly, the study revealed significant differences in knowledge and understanding of the safety protocols across six resorts. The results are reflecting higher management safety awareness in selected resorts what could result in an important competitive advantage for a selected organization. CONCLUSIONS: The research provides an in-depth insight into the concept of safety culture, presented through the attitudes, practices/behaviors, knowledge, and training of employees in natural health resorts in Slovenia. Findings contribute to the development of conceptual knowledge in safety science.

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安全文化是斯洛文尼亚自然疗养胜地的竞争优势

背景：许多研究都集中在安全文化方面。目前还没有关于自然疗养院员工安全文化认知的研究。目的：本研究旨在从斯洛文尼亚自然疗养院员工的角度考察安全文化的概念。方法：对斯洛文尼亚六个自然疗养胜地的268名员工进行抽样调查，以测量员工的态度、做法/行为、知识和培训。结果：调查结果显示，员工的安全态度与其年龄、教育水平和在组织中的职位之间没有统计相关性。然而，这项研究揭示了六个度假村对安全措施的理解和所选安全态度的显著差异。同样，该研究揭示了六个度假村在安全协议的知识和理解方面的显著差异。这些结果反映出选定度假村的管理安全意识更高，这可能会为选定组织带来重要的竞争优势。结论：该研究通过斯洛文尼亚自然疗养院员工的态度、实践/行为、知识和培训，深入了解了安全文化的概念。研究结果有助于安全科学概念知识的发展。

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Human systems management MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

3.50

自引率

30.40%

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期刊介绍： Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past. Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not. HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions. Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer. The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.