Ethical Leadership and Safety Performance: Does Team Cohesiveness Mediate?

Abstract

The study aims to examine the effects of ethical leadership on the safety performance of the employees working in the electrical industry. Moreover, team cohesiveness is examined as a mediator. A quantitative study with 202 sampled employees was made through questionnaires. Structural equation modeling was used for analysis. Ethical leadership positively affected safety performance. Moreover, the team cohesiveness positively mediated this relationship. The managers intended to ensure safety at the workplace and to enhance the safety performance of the employees have to focus on ethical leadership practices in the electrical industry. The study is an important landmark in highlighting the relationship of ethical leadership with safety performance in the electrical industry of Pakistan that is examined for the first time, after reviewing the literature. These results are useful for the ethical leaders of electrical firms to enhance the safety behavior of their subordinates through team cohesion.