The differential effects of transformational leadership facets on employee safety

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• Personal Author:
  Chen PY ; Cigularov KP ; Gibbons AM ; Hoffmeister K ; Johnson SK ; Rosecrance JC
• Description:
  Transformational and transactional leadership have been associated with numerous positive safety outcomes, such as improved safety climate, increased safety behaviors, and decreased accidents and injuries. However, leadership is a complex, multidimensional construct, and there is reason to suspect that different facets of leadership may affect safety in different ways and for different reasons. Yet little research to date has considered the relationships between individual facets of transformational and transactional leadership and safety outcomes. The present study addressed this gap by using relative weights analysis to examine the unique influences of leadership facets on five employee safety outcomes. In a survey of 1167 construction pipefitters and plumbers, idealized attributes and behaviors accounted for the most variance in each of the safety outcomes, whereas individualized consideration and active management- by-exception frequently accounted for the least amount of variance. These results suggest that leadership development programs in construction should address multiple individual elements of leadership, such as core values, as well as concrete skills and behaviors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Construction Industry Mass Behavior Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Leadership Climate Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Group-dynamics Management-personnel Safety-climate Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Supervisory-personnel Work-environment Work-organization Work-practices Worker-motivation Workers Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  0925-7535
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  68-78
• Volume:
  62
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047206
• Citation:
  Saf Sci 2014 Feb; 62:68-78
• Contact Point Address:
  Krista Hoffmeister, Colorado State University, Department of Psychology, 1876 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, United States
• Email:
  hoffmk@rams.colostate.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Safety Science
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c4174dffd0726ea2ba33853981589c1186b4f66ca15c8f98b886f57a4215858a9210c349ec53dbf9c6abd4a9ff2aa0fa179053e48d4b14a0fa453ad16909d7b2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202364/cdc_202364_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 387.43 KB ]