Understanding how managers balance the paradoxical nature of occupational safety through a practice-driven institutional lens

Jeschke, Katharina Christiane

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105627

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“…In the interviews, the most important guidelines for assessing the hazards of one's own work were considered to be daily activities, which is in line with previous studies, as safety management should be a daily activity in which supervisors and managers lead by example and encourage their subordinates to work safely [52]. However, Jeschke [53] has revealed a major conflict between managers' daily work and safety, which they viewed as an extra task. In this study, it was found that, in the workplaces, employees are encouraged to make safety reports and do various safety rounds, sessions, or walks.…”

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Supporting Occupational Health and Safety Risk Assessment Skills: A Case Study of Five Companies

Rantala

Lindholm

Tappura

2022

IJERPH

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Financial burden due to poor occupational safety practices remains high although occupational health and safety (OHS) have improved in recent years. Conducting risk assessment is one way to improve OHS. Workplaces may not have sufficient expertise in risk assessment. The aim of this study was to identify the needed OHS risk assessment skills, current support in the workplaces and the ways to improve risk assessment skills. This study was conducted with the Delphi survey for OHS experts (n = 13) and with interviews (n = 41) in the case companies. OHS experts agreed that the most significant skills were for employees to identify hazards and minimize risks in one’s work; for supervisors to influence others with a good example; and for OHS experts to understand and manage the wholeness of safety practices and understand and manage the meaning, concepts, and criteria of risk assessment. The current main support methods were learning at work, training and written instructions. However, many of the interviewees felt that they had not received risk assessment training and that the support depended on their activity. Finally, the OHS experts determined that the most feasible ways to improve risk assessment skills were training, coaching and giving clear instructions. Likewise, the interviewees suggested various training methods. Based on these results, concrete development plans to improve risk assessment skills can be made.

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Supporting Occupational Health and Safety Risk Assessment Skills: A Case Study of Five Companies

Rantala

Lindholm

Tappura

2022

IJERPH

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“…Recently, a variety of studies have begun exploring the practice elements of institutional logics, and our study is well-placed within the emerging practice-driven institutionalism perspective (Smets, Aristidou, & Whittington, 2017; Smets et al, 2015). This new research mainly draws upon ethnographic methods showing for example how local actors interpret and employ institutional logics to implement a management concept (Currie & Spyridonidis, 2015) or how everyday practices at the micro level enact the institutional complexity of more logics (Jeschke, 2022; Smets et al, 2015). The perspective reconnects institutional theory with its practice-theoretical roots to ‘foreground the collective performance of institutions through situated, emergent and generative practices’ (Smets et al, 2017, p. 366).…”

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Translating to Maintain Existing Practices: Micro-tactics in the implementation of a new management concept

Waldorff

Madsen

2022

Organization Studies

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Research has demonstrated how the translation of a new management concept into organizational practices is impacted by the translators’ engagement with their local context. We expand this literature by demonstrating how a heterogenous institutional context prompts translators to create practice change but also practice maintenance. Building upon an interpretive analytical framework we offer a way forward to examine relationships between societal institutions and distributed collective work in change processes. Our longitudinal qualitative study based upon interviews and observations examines how the concept of value-based healthcare was translated at a hospital. The translators developed three micro-tactics: disregard, maintenance, and displacement, grounded in their narration of practice changes. Translators enacted institutional logics differently at the levels of meaning and practice when they framed, rationalised, and contextualised the potentialities of a new concept, and this complexity provided the possibility of various practice outcomes. We contribute to the understanding of translation by demonstrating how a heterogenous institutional context encourages translators to change selected practices but also to decouple and maintain most of the existing practices due to their enactment of institutionalised rationalities. Moreover, we discuss how translation outcomes are impacted by collaborating actors’ shared interpretations of their institutional context. Collaborating translators need to agree on whether and what practice change is valuable for the organization, and change is only possible when they interpret that they have the leverage to align a new idea with dominant institutional logics.

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“…It also elevates workforce status by developing human capital, which is key to competitive advantage in a resource-based view approach [15]. Plus, this flexibility was key when bridging production goals and safety trade-offs in construction sites [1] because managers ease internal rules and relies on knowledge networks with their peers to commit both goals. In addition, this flexibility allows systems to reduce the gap between work imagined and work done [2].…”

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“…Although analytical methods have already tested the relationship between safety and performance, there is still an organizational belief that poses safety as contradictory to production goals; the trade-off between prevention and performance [1], [2]. The debate is such across 30 years of literature [2]- [5], that some researchers have found analytically that investments in safety do not imply performance losses [6]- [8], while others argue that complying with safety regulations significantly decrease the odds of a company to survive longer [9].…”

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“…Understanding the company as a for-profit organization, since it still needs to pay salaries, and especially to run safety operations, we argue is that as long as managers and directors fail to conceive safety, as a source of performance to company's strategy it will be seen as a trade-off to production goals, being a 'sidecar' to operations management [16] that proposes extra tasks [1], [17] to a worker.…”

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Knowledge Management as Driver for Prevention and Performance Trade-offs

Pinto¹,

Nicolaı̈

Michelot³

2022

2022 8th International Conference on Information Management (ICIM)

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Analytical methods in engineering and economics have been proposing that investments in safety lead to improvements in performance. However, no research has proposed a management approach that studies the organizational elements that conceive safety management as a source of strategical performance to a company. In this study, we aim to shed light into a possible theoretical path that could bridge this issue in the construction industry. We present a framework explaining how Knowledge Management can leverage both worlds under the condition of having a psychological safe environment. After, we draw final considerations, limitations, and indications to further studies.

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Understanding how managers balance the paradoxical nature of occupational safety through a practice-driven institutional lens

Cited by 10 publications

References 63 publications

Supporting Occupational Health and Safety Risk Assessment Skills: A Case Study of Five Companies

Supporting Occupational Health and Safety Risk Assessment Skills: A Case Study of Five Companies

Translating to Maintain Existing Practices: Micro-tactics in the implementation of a new management concept

Knowledge Management as Driver for Prevention and Performance Trade-offs

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