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The development and empirical testing of a safety leadership-safety behaviour structural model
Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/127390 The development and empirical testing of a safety leadership-safety behaviour structural model Hallé, Rebecca Mariri, Tendai Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Industrial Psychology. Industrial safety -- Psychological aspects Industrial safety -- Management Leadership -- Social aspects Organizational behavior UCTD Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2023. ENGLISH SUMMARY: Safety is an important metric of performance for organisations operating in the highrisk industry. This is as a result of safety behaviour being critical for ensuring an organisation’s sustainability, particularly within high-risk industries. Results from several studies support the notion that the majority of occupational accidents are caused by people rather than unsafe physical working environments. Literature also points to organisational and managerial factors. Building on the organisational contributors’ literature, this study explored the relationship between how safety leadership, an important organisational factor, influences safety behaviour within the context of other human factors. The research was guided by the question, "What is the relationship between safety leadership and safety behaviour within the context of other human factors?" The empirical objectives of the study were to understand the influence of safety leadership on safety behaviour within the context of other human factors, and to test the safety leadership-safety behaviour model, as well as to provide recommendations on how to use safety leadership to influence safety behaviour. The study theorised on the relationship between leadership, other human factors and safety behaviour through a critical review of literature, which culminated in the development of a structural model which is anchored in the theory of planned behaviour and can account for the relationship between safety leadership and safety behaviour within the context of human factors. Six hypotheses were formulated and illustrated through the structural model based on the critical literature discussions. An ex post facto correlation design was used as a research design. Data was collected from operational level employees in an organisation in the petroleum industry using an online survey which was distributed via QR code on a flyer. The results from the study uncovered that safety leadership influences safety behaviour indirectly by influencing various human factors. In particular, the results illustrated that safety leadership had a close and positive relationship with an employee’s perception of management’s commitment to safety. Additionally, the correlation between safety behavioural attitudes and an employee’s safety behavioural intention was the largest. More significantly, however, was the statistically significant, albeit not very strong, relationship between an employee’s intention to behave and safety behaviour. Interestingly, there was no significant relationship between an employee’s perception of management’s commitment to safety and their intention to behave. The study provides insight for organisations in high-risk industries on the relationship between safety leadership and safety behaviour. Organisations can learn from the outcomes of this study to use safety leadership more effectively in their attempts to manipulate the safety behaviour of their employees and thus improve the sustainability of their organisations. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Veiligheid is ʼn belangrike meting van prestasie van organisasies wat in ʼn hoe-risiko bedryfstak funksioneer. Dit is omdat veiligheidsgedrag van kritieke belang is om die volhoubaarheid van die organisasie te verseker, veral in hoe-risiko bedryfstakke. Die resultate van verskeie studies ondersteun die siening dat die meerderheid van beroepsongelukke veroorsaak word deur mense eerder as deur onveilige fisiese werksomgewings. Die literatuur dui ook op organisatoriese en bestuursfaktore. Deur voort te bou op die literatuur oor organisatoriese bydraes, het die studie die verwantskap tussen veiligheidsleierskap, ʼn belangrike organisatoriese faktor, en die invloed daarvan op veiligheidsgedrag binne die konteks van ander menslike faktore verken. Die navorsing is gelei deur die vraag, “Wat is die verwantskap tussen veiligheidsleierskap en veiligheidsgedrag binne die konteks van ander menslike faktore?” Die empiriese doelwitte van die studie van om die invloed van veiligheidsleierskap op veiligheidsgedrag binne die konteks van ander menslike faktore te verstaan, en om die model van veiligheidsleierskap-veiligheidsgedrag te toets, asook om aanbevelings te maak oor hoe om veiligheidsleierskap te gebruik om veiligheidsgedrag te beinvloed. Deur ʼn kritiese studie van die literatuur het die studie geteoretiseer oor die verwantskap tussen leierskap, ander menslike faktore en veiligheidsgedrag, wat gekulmineer het in die ontwikkeling van ʼn strukturele model wat in die teorie van beplande gedrag geanker is, en wat rekening hou met die verwantskap tussen veiligheidsleierskap en veiligheidsgedrag binne die konteks van menslike faktore. Vyf hipoteses is geformuleer en geillustreer deur die strukturele model wat gebaseer is op die kritiese besprekings van die literatuur. ʼn Ex post facto korrelasie-ontwerp is gebruik as ʼn navorsingsontwerp. Data is versamel van operasionele-vlak werknemers in ʼn organisasie in die petroleumbedryf met behulp van ʼn aanlynopname wat deur middel van ʼn QR-kode op ʼn strooibiljet versprei is. Die resultate van die studie het aan die lig gebring dat veiligheidsleierskap veiligheidsgedrag indirek beinvloed deur verskeie menslike faktore. In die besonder het die resultate geillustreer dat veiligheidsleierskap die sterkste verwantskap het met ʼn werknemer se persepsie van bestuur se verbintenis tot veiligheid. Hierbenewens het houdings ten opsigte van veiligheidsgedrag die sterkste verwantskap met ʼn werknemer se voorneme oor veiligheidsgedrag getoon. Meer betekenisvol was egter die statistiese betekenisvolle hoewel nie baie sterk verwantskap tussen ʼn werknemer se voorneme tot gedrag en spesifiek veiligheidsgedrag. Dit is interessant dat daar geen noemenswaardige verwantskap tussen ʼn werknemer se persepsie oor bestuur se verbintenis tot veiligheid en hulle voorneme tot gedrag gevind is nie. Die studie verskaf insig vir organisasies in hoe-risiko bedryfstakke oor die verwantskap tussen veiligheidsleierskap en veiligheidsgedrag. Organisasies kan leer uit die bevindinge van die studie om veiligheidsleierskap meer doeltreffend aan te wend in hulle pogings om die veiligheidsgedrag van hulle werknemers te manipuleer en sodoende die volhoubaarheid van hulle organisasies te verbeter. Masters 2023-03-07T12:01:42Z 2023-05-18T07:19:43Z 2023-03-07T12:01:42Z 2023-05-18T07:19:43Z 2023-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/127390 en_ZA Stellenbosch University xi, 125 pages : illustrations, includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Industrial safety -- Psychological aspects Industrial safety -- Management Leadership -- Social aspects Organizational behavior UCTD Hallé, Rebecca The development and empirical testing of a safety leadership-safety behaviour structural model |
| title | The development and empirical testing of a safety leadership-safety behaviour structural model |
| title_full | The development and empirical testing of a safety leadership-safety behaviour structural model |
| title_fullStr | The development and empirical testing of a safety leadership-safety behaviour structural model |
| title_full_unstemmed | The development and empirical testing of a safety leadership-safety behaviour structural model |
| title_short | The development and empirical testing of a safety leadership-safety behaviour structural model |
| title_sort | development and empirical testing of a safety leadership safety behaviour structural model |
| topic | Industrial safety -- Psychological aspects Industrial safety -- Management Leadership -- Social aspects Organizational behavior UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/127390 |
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