Being Present in Enhancing Safety: Examining the Effects of Workplace Mindfulness, Safety Behaviors, and Safety Climate on Safety Outcomes

Kao, Kuo Yang; Thomas, Candice L.; Spitzmüeller, Christiane; Huang, Yueng Hsiang

doi:10.1007/s10869-019-09658-3

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“…Similarly, Kao et al (2021) argued that mindfulness would make employees more sensitive to situational cues in organizations and would therefore increase the impact of workplace climate on employee behavior. In support of this contention, Kao et al (2021) found that compared to highly mindful employees who worked in the context of a weak safety climate, highly mindful employees who worked in the context of a strong safety climate engaged in more safety compliance and safety participation behaviors.…”

Section: Team Context and Organizational Climatementioning

confidence: 99%

A balanced view of mindfulness at work

Choi

Gruman

Leonard

2021

Organizational Psychology Review

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Mindfulness has grown from an obscure subject to an immensely popular topic that is associated with numerous performance, health, and well-being benefits in organizations. However, this growth in popularity has generated a number of criticisms of mindfulness and a rather piecemeal approach to organizational research and practice on the subject. To advance both investigation and application, the present paper applies The Balance Framework to serve as an integrative scaffolding for considering mindfulness in organizations, helping to address some of the criticisms leveled against it. The Balance Framework specifies five forms of balance: 1) balance as tempered view, 2) balance as mid-range, 3) balance as complementarity, 4) balance as contextual sensitivity, and 5) balance among different levels of consciousness. Each form is applied to mindfulness at work with a discussion of relevant conceptual issues in addition to implications for research and practice. Plain Language Summary In order to appreciate the value of mindfulness at work researchers and practitioners might want to consider both the benefits and potential drawbacks of mindfulness. This paper presents a discussion of both the advantages and possible disadvantages of mindfulness at work organized in terms of the five dimensions of an organizing structure called The Balance Framework.

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Section: Team Context and Organizational Climatementioning

confidence: 99%

A balanced view of mindfulness at work

Choi

Gruman

Leonard

2021

Organizational Psychology Review

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“…In practice, mindfulness has been applied as a treatment to mental and behavioral health issues, including stress, anxiety, and depression [ 12 , 13 , 22 , 23 ], which incidentally can enhance workplace safety. Considering a great deal of stress caused by the working environment and the immense pressure to execute a job contributes to unsafe worker behaviors [ 9 ], and implementing mindfulness practices that can help workers be more attentive and aware of themselves and their surroundings has recently gained traction within industry [ 15 , 24 , 25 ]. In the following section, the research team will summarize the salient results of a literature review about mindfulness measures and the relationship between mindfulness and safety performance.…”

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“…In addition, this measure of mindfulness showed satisfactory psychometric properties and validity inferences [ 35 , 36 ]. Considering that MAAS has been used successfully by other researchers to measure the relationship between mindfulness and workplace safety in the healthcare industry, Dierynck et al [ 37 ] and petroleum-distribution industry, Kao et al [ 25 ], the authors decided to use this measure for the present study.…”

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“…As a result, Dierynck et al [ 37 ] claimed that mindfulness has a positive effect on occupational safety in hospitals. More recently, [ 25 ] evaluated the relationship between the mindfulness trait and workplace injuries in the petroleum-distribution industry. Collecting and analyzing hierarchically nested data, they found that mindfulness is related to workplace injuries, safety compliance, and safety participation, and they observed this relationship is mediated by safety compliance.…”

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Examining the Relationship between Mindfulness, Personality, and National Culture for Construction Safety

Solomon

Esmaeili

2021

IJERPH

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The construction industry still leads the world as one of the sectors with the most work-related injuries and worker fatalities. Considering that one of the barriers to improving construction safety is its stressful working environment, which increases risk of inattentiveness among construction workers, safety managers seek practices to measure and enhance worker focus and reduce stress, such as mindfulness. Considering the important role of mindfulness in curbing frequency and severity of incidents, researchers are interested in understanding the relationship between mindfulness and other common, more static human characteristics. As a result, this study examines the relationship between mindfulness and such variables as personality and national culture in the context of construction safety. Collecting data from 155 participants, this study used elastic net regression to examine the influence of independent (i.e., personality and national culture) variables on the dependent (i.e., mindfulness) variable. To validate the results of the regression, 10-fold cross-validation was conducted. The results reveal that certain personality traits (e.g., conscientiousness, neuroticism, and agreeableness) and national cultural dimensions (e.g., uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and collectivism) can be used as predictors of mindfulness for individuals. Since mindfulness has shown to increase safety and work performance, safety managers can utilize these variables to identify at-risk workers so that additional safety training can be provided to enhance work performance and improve safety outcomes. The results of this study will inform future work into translating personal and mindfulness characteristics into factors that predict specific elements of unsafe human behaviors.

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“…Furthermore, since perceived voice level is a perceptual measure, it depicts individual, idiosyncratic beliefs and differs from group-level voice constructs, such as group voice climate. Group climates illustrate group beliefs, often justified by empirical evidence of sharedness (e.g., Kao et al, 2021;Morrison et al, 2011). 5 Indeed, group voice climate has been measured by aggregating individual responses of voice (e.g., Frazier & Bowler, 2015;Morrison et al, 2011).…”

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The Impacts of Distinct Motives on Promotive and Prohibitive Voice: The Differential Moderating Role of Perceived Voice Level

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Drawing upon the citizenship motives framework and voice research, this study theorizes that both organizational concern (OC) and impression management (IM) motives are key predictors of employee promotive and prohibitive voice. This study further explores the moderating effect of perceived voice level in the work context on the relationships between motives and voice. The results of 140 pairings of supervisor-subordinate dyads indicate that both OC and IM motives are determinants of promotive and prohibitive voice. Moreover, perceived voice level in the work context plays distinct roles in moderating the main effects of motives on voice. Specifically, perceived voice level in the work context mitigates the influence of OC motives on promotive and prohibitive voice, whereas it strengthens the impact of IM motives on promotive and prohibitive voice. This study provides implications for both theory and practice. Limitations and future directions are also discussed.

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Being Present in Enhancing Safety: Examining the Effects of Workplace Mindfulness, Safety Behaviors, and Safety Climate on Safety Outcomes

Cited by 27 publications

References 78 publications

A balanced view of mindfulness at work

A balanced view of mindfulness at work

Examining the Relationship between Mindfulness, Personality, and National Culture for Construction Safety

The Impacts of Distinct Motives on Promotive and Prohibitive Voice: The Differential Moderating Role of Perceived Voice Level

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