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The power of empowering team leadership over time: A multi-wave longitudinal study in nuclear power plants

Francisco J. GraciaMario Martínez-córcolesInés TomásJosé M. Peiró

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Longitudinal studyProcess managementbusiness.industry05 social sciencesMultilevel model0211 other engineering and technologiesPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthSample (statistics)02 engineering and technologyBuilding and ConstructionNuclear powerTest (assessment)Power (social and political)Team leadership021105 building & construction0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesJob satisfactionSafety Risk Reliability and QualitybusinessPsychologySafety Research050107 human factors

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Abstract Team attitudes in critical infrastructures are essential to achieving reliable operations despite internal and external challenges, and empowering team leadership (ETL) may be an important precursor of these attitudes. The present study aimed to test whether ETL was related to teams’ satisfaction trajectories, measured as changes in job satisfaction and safety satisfaction at three time points. Hypotheses were tested in a sample of 48 teams from two Spanish nuclear facilities in three different waves (2008, 2011, and 2014). Growth Modeling using hierarchical linear models with SPSS 20.0 revealed that ETL was positively related to initial levels of teams’ job and safety satisfaction, and that teams with greater increases in ETL over time also showed greater increases in job satisfaction and safety satisfaction over time. Implications of these findings for safety research are outlined, as well as their practical implications.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2021-01-01Safety Science
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.105015