Revisiting vulnerability: Comparing young and adult workers’ safety voice intentions under different supervisory conditions

Turner, Nick; Tucker, Sean; Deng, Connie

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2019.105372

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“…We used publicly available injury data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to enter nonfatal injury rates (Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS], 2018) associated with each industry 4 . Consistent with safety research among young workers populations (e.g., Turner et al, 2020), we coded samples drawn from employees aged from 15 to 24 years as “young workers”; all other samples were coded as “older workers.” We used the operationalization of leadership behaviors to code for contextualized leadership. We coded scales that measured leadership behaviors without referring to safety context as “generalized leadership”; we coded scales that contained references to safety as “safety-specific leadership.”…”

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“…Moreover, older individuals in comparison to younger individuals have a relatively richer database of experiences to draw from to help guide their actions (Hess, 2006;Hess et al, 2005). As a result, younger individuals are more likely than older individuals to seek information from their environment to help guide their actions, and their lack of experience may require stronger cues to activate appropriate action-taking (Hess, 2006;Turner et al, 2020). As such, leadership behaviors with a growth orientation (i.e., change-oriented) may be more likely to facilitate appropriate actions among young workers.…”

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A meta-analysis of leadership and workplace safety: Examining relative importance, contextual contingencies, and methodological moderators.

Lyubykh¹,

Turner²,

Hershcovis³

et al. 2022

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Given the high human and economic costs of workplace safety, researchers and practitioners have paid increasing attention to how leadership behaviors relate to workplace safety. Previous research has demonstrated that leadership behaviors are important for workplace safety. In this meta-analysis, we extend our understanding of the leadership-workplace safety relationship by (a) examining the associations between a broader range of five leadership categories-change-oriented, relational-oriented, task-oriented, passive, and destructive-and seven workplace safety variables; (b) investigating the relative importance of these leadership categories in explaining variance in these workplace safety variables; and (c) testing contextual and methodological contingencies of the leadership-workplace safety relationship. Using effect sizes from 194 samples (N = 104,364), we find that although leadership behaviors are associated with workplace safety, the leadership categories vary considerably in their relative importance. Task-oriented leadership followed by relational-oriented leadership emerge as the most important contributors to workplace safety. Change-oriented leadership (which includes transformational leadership) does not emerge as the largest contributor for any of the seven tested safety variables, despite it being the most frequently examined leadership model in the workplace safety literature. Effectiveness of leadership behaviors in relation to workplace safety varies by national culture power distance, industry risk, workforce age, as well as by contextualized forms of leadership (i.e., safety-specific vs. generalized). Finally, there is meta-analytic evidence for publication bias and common-method variance.

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A meta-analysis of leadership and workplace safety: Examining relative importance, contextual contingencies, and methodological moderators.

Lyubykh¹,

Turner²,

Hershcovis³

et al. 2022

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…Previous studies found that individual factors such as gender [ 77 ] and age [ 2 ] can affect the intention of safety voice. Therefore, this study introduces five demographic variables: gender, age, education level, working years, and position as control variables to avoid interference with the result analysis.…”

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“…A large number of human-oriented safety management studies have begun to emerge. Among them, employee safety voice behavior has caused more and more attention [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. If individuals conceal safety-related issues of the organization and do not report hidden dangers they find, it may increase the difficulty of risk prediction and prevention, which will make the risk impossible to control and lead to safety accidents [ 6 , 7 ].…”

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The Influence Mechanism of Political Skill on Safety Voice Behavior in High-Risk Industries: The Mediating Role of Voice Efficacy

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Chen

Qian

et al. 2022

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As an important indicator to measure the adaptability and development potential of individuals in an organization, political skill is rarely considered as an antecedent variable in the field of safety voice. This study is based on impression management theory and social cognitive theory. From the perspective of employee self-service-oriented safety voice motivation, we took political skill as a predictor of safety voice behavior and introduced voice efficacy as an intermediary variable to construct a theoretical model of the relationship between political skill, voice efficacy, and safety voice behavior. We used the method of questionnaire to collect data from employees in high-risk industries. SPSS and AMOS software were used as analysis tools to examine the relationship between political skill, voice efficacy, and safety voice behavior. The study results show that: (1) political skill has a significant positive impact on safety voice behavior; and (2) voice efficacy plays a mediating role in the relationship between political skill and safety voice behavior. In this study, a new predictor of safety voice behavior and its mediation mechanism were obtained. Political skill can not only reflect the psychological cognitive ability of individuals in dangerous work environments, but it is also an important manifestation of the social exchanges between employees and organizations. In the special organizational context where China generally values “guanxi”, political skill has a stronger ability to predict and explain safety voice behavior. This research can help organizations obtain safety-related suggestions from employees in a timely manner and realize the sustainable development of safety management.

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“…Employee safety voice is one of these [19,20] and has been defined as communication motivated by the desire to achieve a safe working environment [20]. The role of employee safety voice in facilitating the exchange of information has received considerable research attention e.g., [13,20,21]. Research has shown that safety communication between workers and their managers e.g., [22][23][24] and peers/co-workers e.g., [20,25] has a strong influence on safety behaviours.…”

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Safety outcomes for incident responders operating on high speed roads: An analysis of the relationship with behaviour, motivation and role clarity

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High-speed roads present a considerable level of risk for frontline workers operating in these environments. To optimise safety, prevention activities need to target the key skills required to mitigate risk. The aim of this research was to explore the behavioural (compliance, participation, voice), motivational (safety motivation) and work demand (role clarity) factors that influence safety outcomes for incident responders working on high-speed roads. Safety outcomes included secondary incidents and near misses with passing vehicles. A total of 295 complete survey responses were received from six emergency service and incident response agencies in one Australian state. Data were analysed using structural equation modelling. The results showed that higher levels of safety voice, safety motivation and, role clarity were significantly associated with safer self-reported safety outcomes after controlling for the number of incidents attended. The findings from this study will be used to guide the development of a training program to improve the cognitive, behavioural and perceptual skills of incident responders operating on high-speed roads. Some insight into the structure and format of this program is provided.

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Revisiting vulnerability: Comparing young and adult workers’ safety voice intentions under different supervisory conditions

Cited by 17 publications

References 19 publications

A meta-analysis of leadership and workplace safety: Examining relative importance, contextual contingencies, and methodological moderators.

A meta-analysis of leadership and workplace safety: Examining relative importance, contextual contingencies, and methodological moderators.

The Influence Mechanism of Political Skill on Safety Voice Behavior in High-Risk Industries: The Mediating Role of Voice Efficacy

Safety outcomes for incident responders operating on high speed roads: An analysis of the relationship with behaviour, motivation and role clarity

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