Leadership styles and safety performance in high-risk industries: a systematic review

IF 0.9 Q3 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety Engineering Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/09617353.2022.2035627

My Thi Diem Ta, Tae-eun Kim, A. Gausdal

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Abstract

Abstract The importance of leadership on safety has been well acknowledged and studied for many years in various high-risk industries. This paper aims at (1) synthesising the existing safety leadership research by performing a systematic literature review to gain an overview of the relationship between various leadership styles and safety performance in high-risk industries with a main focus on health and workplace safety and (2) analysing and comparing the major results from the reviewed studies. The results show that nine leadership styles – transformational leadership, transactional leadership, leader–member exchange, authentic leadership, empowering leadership, ethical leadership, paternalistic leadership, charismatic leadership and passive leadership – have been frequently used in the development and validation of safety leadership theories as well as in understanding the leadership influence towards safety climate, safety compliance and safety participation in various contexts. However, blurred boundaries among the constructs of leadership styles alongside inconsistency in the conceptualisation and measurement of safety performance hinder the advancement of understanding safety leadership’s influence on safety performance. It is therefore of importance that further research develops consistent measurement instruments and conceptualisation and that systems thinking is applied to the study of leadership styles’ influence on safety performance.

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高风险行业的领导风格与安全绩效:系统回顾

多年来，在各种高风险行业中，领导对安全的重要性已经得到了充分的认识和研究。本文旨在(1)通过进行系统的文献综述来综合现有的安全领导研究，以概述高风险行业中各种领导风格与安全绩效之间的关系，主要关注健康和工作场所安全;(2)分析和比较所审查研究的主要结果。结果表明，变革型领导、交易型领导、领导-成员交换型领导、本真型领导、授权型领导、伦理型领导、家长式领导、魅力型领导和被动型领导这九种领导风格在安全领导理论的发展和验证以及在不同情境下领导对安全气候、安全合规和安全参与的影响的理解中被频繁使用。然而，领导风格构建之间的界限模糊，以及安全绩效概念化和测量的不一致，阻碍了对安全领导对安全绩效影响的理解。因此，重要的是进一步研究开发一致的测量工具和概念化，并将系统思维应用于研究领导风格对安全绩效的影响。

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International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety Engineering ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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1.70

自引率

25.00%

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期刊介绍： IJRQSE is a refereed journal focusing on both the theoretical and practical aspects of reliability, quality, and safety in engineering. The journal is intended to cover a broad spectrum of issues in manufacturing, computing, software, aerospace, control, nuclear systems, power systems, communication systems, and electronics. Papers are sought in the theoretical domain as well as in such practical fields as industry and laboratory research. The journal is published quarterly, March, June, September and December. It is intended to bridge the gap between the theoretical experts and practitioners in the academic, scientific, government, and business communities.