Journal of Risk Research ( IF 5.346 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 , DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2020.1863846 Andrea Bazzoli 1, 2 , Matteo Curcuruto 2
Abstract
Motivating employees to speak up about safety issues in organizations is a daunting task for both scholars and practitioners. Previous research has shown that safety leadership is one of the most studied predictors because of its wide-reaching effects on safety behaviors. This contribution aims to test whether Parker et al.’s proactive motivational states (‘can do,’ ‘reason to,’ and ‘energized to’ motivations) mediate the relationship between transformational, transactional, and passive safety leadership and an expanded set of safety voice behaviors, a form of upwards safety communication. We tested our model using data gathered from a sample (N = 238) of US workers. Our results showed that (1) all three motivational states mediate the relationship between transformative leadership and promotive safety voice; (2) only ‘reason to’ and ‘energized to’ mediate the relationship between transactional leadership and preventive and prohibitive safety voices; and (3) only ‘can do’ motivations mediate the relationship between passive leadership and hostile safety voices. Implications for research and practice are also discussed: these results may be leveraged to improve practitioners’ ability to motivate employees to speak up, a notoriously difficult task, by considering the employees’ motivational drivers. We found that, in the safety realm, the relationship between a leader’s behavior and their followers’ safety behavior is partially mediated by employees’ belief that they are able to broaden their workplace role, their feeling of ownership, and their engagement.
中文翻译:
安全领导和安全声音:探索主动动机的调解作用
摘要
激励员工对组织中的安全问题大声疾呼,这对学者和从业者都是艰巨的任务。先前的研究表明,安全领导力是研究最多的预测因素之一,因为它对安全行为的影响广泛。此贡献旨在测试Parker等人的主动动机状态(“可以做到”,“理性”和“激发动力”动机)是否调解了转型,交易和被动安全领导力与扩展的安全语音行为,一种向上安全通信的形式。我们使用从样本(N = 238)的美国工人。我们的研究结果表明:(1)所有三个动机状态都在变革型领导与激励安全声音之间起中介作用;(2)只有“引起”和“充满激情”才能调解交易型领导与预防性和禁止性安全声音之间的关系;(3)只有“能做”的动机才能调解被动领导和敌对安全声音之间的关系。还讨论了对研究和实践的影响:可以通过考虑员工的动机驱动因素,利用这些结果来提高从业人员激励员工大声疾呼的能力。我们发现,在安全领域,