Management by values: A qualitative study of how small business owners in the cleaning sector view and implement their employer responsibilities with respect to occupational safety and health management

Landstad, Bodil J.; Vinberg, Stig; Rahme, Alexandra; Vigren, Gabriella; Hagqvist, Emma

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105649

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“…These findings highlight the fact that microentrepreneurs truly are interested in stakeholder and community activities on a broad scale, not only within the organization, when defining and implementing SR. Spence (2016) suggests that entrepreneurs are most accountable and responsible to those groups with whom they have the closest relationships, such as family and employees but also to business partners and local communities. This confirms the idea that integrative RL, referring to the leader's assumption that their moral obligation is with various stakeholders outside the organization and responsibility include creating value for all stakeholders (Maak et al, 2016), as well as that RL is implemented through management by values (Landstad et al, 2022).…”

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“…Amir et al (2022) argue that company leaders who interact with external stakeholders become better to address the social concerns of the society, while also shaping the business. In small enterprises, RL is often implemented through management by values, including building employee relationships, rational management and transferring responsibility (Landstad et al, 2022). Freeman and Auster (2011) argue for an extended RL research focus on business leaders' individual values because individual past experiences, current values, and future aspirations shape business leaders and their behaviour.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Microentrepreneurs as Socially Responsible Leaders

Simunaniemi

Valkjärvi

Franzén

et al. 2023

South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to the voluntary integration of social and environmental concerns into companies’ operations. This qualitative case study investigates microentrepreneurs’ values and business activities related to CSR, particularly the elements of social responsibility (SR) via the responsible leadership (RL) approach. We investigate how entrepreneurs perceive the concept of SR, how SR is related to values and through which leadership activities they plan to implement SR. The case is a CSR training programme with 30 Finnish microentrepreneurs as attendants. The results show that entrepreneurs perceive SR on two levels: philosophical and practice-oriented levels. At the philosophical level, RL is being truthful to one’s own values and taking a long-term, holistic view, and the practical SR includes customer focus, staff equality, or community and network activity. Being true to one’s personal values and having a holistic long-term view of SR are the ground-building elements guiding leadership decisions in microenterprises. The practical level of RL is not limited to the microenterprise but, rather, extends to, for example, customers and business partners. The theoretical contribution to the RL literature is that the groundwork for SR in microenterprises is based on strategically sustainable businesses that are in line with entrepreneurs’ values but also simultaneously pursue a greater, more long-term purpose than a short-term profit-seeking. This study adds to the RL literature, indicating that, regardless of their owner-centricity and the focus on practically relevant leadership activities in the here and now, microenterprises pursue larger impacts on the community by adopting a holistic, future-oriented view. Although microenterprises are owner-centric and individual motivations play a significant role in RL, this study shows that, in socially and economically sustainable microenterprises, entrepreneurs’ personal values are integrated with those of the customers.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

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confidence: 99%

Microentrepreneurs as Socially Responsible Leaders

Simunaniemi

Valkjärvi

Franzén

et al. 2023

South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases

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“…For example, the authors of [ 38 ] assessed owners’ behaviors and attitudes toward implementing food safety and quality management systems. The authors of [ 39 ] explored the personal views and experiences of cleaning service owners regarding their responsibilities toward managing occupational safety and employee health. Research on owners’ safety management in construction primarily focuses on how to improve the level of owners’ safety management.…”

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The Influence Mechanism of Owners’ Safety Management Behavior on Construction Workers’ Safety Citizenship Behavior

Zhang,

Liu,

Chu

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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The safety citizenship behavior (SCB) of construction workers can improve project safety performance. This study explored how construction company owners’ safety management behavior contributes to the development and encouragement of SCB. It combined the Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) and Stimulus–Organism–Response (SOR) theories to propose relevant hypotheses and develop a theoretical model to examine the effect of owners’ safety management behavior on construction workers’ SCB. Data from 534 construction workers were collected through questionnaires. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and the Structural Equation Model (SEM) were used for empirical analysis. It was found that the owner’s safety management behavior positively affected the construction workers’ SCB. In particular, work engagement played an intermediary role, while power distance exhibited a moderating effect. A few noteworthy findings are that proactive safety behavior is significantly positively influenced by organization and coordination, prosocial safety behavior is significantly positively influenced by safety funding investment, and high power distance is not always bad for construction workers’ safety citizenship behavior. By determining the connection between owners’ safety management behavior and construction workers’ SCB, this study offered a fresh perspective on promoting construction workers’ proactive behavior and put forward suggestions for owners to improve project safety management.

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“…This situation will pave the way for dangerous situations to occur and turn into risks in terms of OHS. 8 Application studies on occupational health and safety raise awareness of dangers among individuals. 9 Safety culture and practices are highly correlated with increasing the OHS knowledge and behaviors of those performing real jobs in the working environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Relationship Between Occupational Health and Safety Awareness of Health Workers and Work Efficiency

Günaydın,

Özoran,

Günaydın

2024

Gümüşhane Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi

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This study focused on analyzing the knowledge and attitudes of the staff members concerning occupational health and safety in the settings where surgical operations are executed and investigating the effect on their productivity. The study was conducted in five public hospitals in Trabzon city center. The sample was calculated as 256 in 95% confidence interval by going through the total population including doctors, nurses and health technicians. Participation consent, institutional clearance, scientific research permit, and research ethics committee approval, which are necessary to conduct the study, were received from natural and legal entities accordingly. The study results revealed that the knowledge level of the study group about occupational health and safety was 38.3% (good, excellent). If there is an occurrence of an occupational accident at the workplace, the influence rates of the participants' productivity were as follows: 73.8% mostly and always affected, 55.5% mostly and always experienced a decrease in the quality of work, and 89.1% mostly and always affected, emphasizing on employee health. The study findings indicated that occupational health and safety-related practices influence employee productivity.

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Management by values: A qualitative study of how small business owners in the cleaning sector view and implement their employer responsibilities with respect to occupational safety and health management

Cited by 3 publications

References 31 publications

Microentrepreneurs as Socially Responsible Leaders

Microentrepreneurs as Socially Responsible Leaders

The Influence Mechanism of Owners’ Safety Management Behavior on Construction Workers’ Safety Citizenship Behavior

The Relationship Between Occupational Health and Safety Awareness of Health Workers and Work Efficiency

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