Profiling Safety Behaviors: Exploration of the Sociocognitive Variables that Best Discriminate Between Different Behavioral Patterns
This study combines contributions from both safety climate literature and prominent social influence theories. It was developed to identify the combination of sociocognitive variables that differentiate between different profiles of safety behaviors. This empirical approach has hardly been explored in the literature on behavioral aspects related to safety. The research setting for this study was a transportation company (N= 356). The results of discriminant analysis showed that different combinations of dispositional and situational influences may lead to diverse profiles of compliance and proactive safety behaviors. Perceived behavioral control was revealed to be the variable that best dif…
A multi-agent safety response model in the construction industry.
BACKGROUND: The construction industry is one of the sectors with the highest accident rates and the most serious accidents. A multi-agent safety response approach allows a useful diagnostic tool in order to understand factors affecting risk and accidents. The special features of the construction sector can influence the relationships among safety responses along the model of safety influences. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is to test a model explaining risk and work-related accidents in the construction industry as a result of the safety responses of the organization, the supervisors, the co-workers and the worker. METHODS: Sample: 374 construction employees belonging to 64 small Spa…
A Basic Program for Calculating Scale Values Using Four Unidimensional Scaling Methods in Random Subsamples
This MS BASIC program calculates and stores for further analysis scale values obtained from random subsamples using four unidimensional scaling methods: Dunn-Rankin's variance stable rank sums, Thurstone's case V (paired comparisons), Thurstone-Chave's IAI, and Green's successive categories.
Safety climate responses and the perceived risk of accidents in the construction industry
The usefulness of safety climate as a diagnostic tool ought to reside in its ability to identify detailed and precise difficulties that can be considered critical to improving safety. This feature depends on the theoretical analysis of the agents and issues that should be included in safety climate statements. Safety climate can be analysed from the point of view of the agent that performs the safety response in question, by identifying four main safety agents (organization, supervisors, co-workers and worker) and five safety climate variables: the Organizational Safety Response (OSR), the Supervisors' Safety Response (SSR), the Co-Workers' Safety Response (CSR), the Worker Safety Response …
The impact of work accidents experience on causal attributions and worker behaviour
Abstract It has recently been suggested that the experience of work accidents is an important variable to be considered as a predictor of workers’ perceptions (e.g. causal attributions) and behaviours. Departing from the literature, this study has two goals: (1) to analyse the relationship among work accident experience, causal attribution of accidents and workers’ behaviour; and (2) to test causal attributions as a mediating variable in the relationship between work accident experience and workers’ behaviour. To test the stability of the results, the same analyses have been performed in two Portuguese organizations, one in an industrial context and the other in an R&D context. In the indus…
Formal and Informal Interpersonal Power in Organisations: Testing a Bifactorial Model of Power in Role-sets
Cet article porte sur la structure et les proprietes des bases du pouvoir dans les situations organisationnelles. On y presente et y teste une theorie bifactorielle du pouvoir elaboree a partir des sources du pouvoir identifiees par French & Raven. Cette theorie pose: a) le pouvoir formel englobe la legitimite et la possibilite d’imposer et de recompenser, le pouvoir informel l’arbitrage et l’expertise, b) le pouvoir formel est liea la hierarchie, c) il est asymetrique alors que le pouvoir informel est reciproque, d) et en relation negative avec le conflit. Un echantillon de 155 sujets a decrit ses relations de pouvoir et ses conflits avec les 1093 membres de son milieu professionnel, super…
Crítica al enfoque metodológico tradicional para el estudio de la polarización grupal: acercamiento desde el análisis categórico de datos
ResumenEl presente articulo revisa el paradigma experimental de contraste de la polarizacion grupal desde el punto de vista del analisis estadistico, discute e ilustra las serias deficiencias metodologicas del analisis estadistico utilizado comunmente en la literatura para contrastar el fenomeno de la polarizacion grupal (pruebas t y ANOVAS) y propone una via alternativa de analisis para establecer la prevalencia del fenomeno utilizando analisis para datos categoricos. A la luz de la critica efectuada la evidencia sobre polarizacion grupal necesita ser reanalizada desde el nuevo enfoque de analisis propuesto.
Another look at safety climate and safety behavior: deepening the cognitive and social mediator mechanisms.
WOS:000301081700053 (Nº de Acesso Web of Science) “Prémio Científico ISCTE-IUL 2013” In this study, safety climate literature and the theory of planned behavior were combined to explore the cognitive and social mechanisms that mediate the relationship between organizational safety climate and compliance and proactive safety behaviors. The sample consisted of 356 workers from a transportation organization. Using a multiple mediation design, the results revealed that proactive and compliance safety behaviors are explained by different patterns of combinations of individual and situational factors related to safety. On the one hand, the relationship between organizational safety climate and pr…
Safety Climates in Construction Industry: Understanding the Role of Construction Sites and Workgroups
Studies of safety climate in construction revealed a significant positive association between safety climate and various aspects of occupational health and safety. The mechanisms through which this impact operates are still unclear and safety climate is usually studied without considering the complexity of this industry (companies, worksites and groups). The aim of this research is to analyze to what extend there are differences between construction sites and to explore the relations between construction sites’ safety climate and workers’ safety response and to examine how this influence occur considering the workgroups. The safety climate was evaluated using a reduced version of the questi…