A study on intergenerational impact of destructive leadership on miners' safety performance

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2017.02.005

Abstract

Abstract: In order to improve the mine managers' safety leadership and miners' safety performance level,a path model was built and verified for the effects of destructive leadership on miners' safety performance after considering regulatory focus theory and generational difference.The state-owned coal mining enterprises' 316 miners were surveyed by means of copies of a questionnaire.The methods of SEM and hierarchy regression analysis were employed to test the model.The results show that destructive leadership is correlated positively with safety participation and negatively with safety compliance,that promotion regulatory focus plays a partial mediation role in the relationship between destructive leadership and safety performance,and defensive regulatory focus plays a partial mediation role in the relationship between destructive leadership behavior and safety compliance behavior,and that the generational moderating effect is significant. In brief,the destructive leadership has a positive effect on safety performance, and the managers should pay close attention to ages of the miners and the trends in the regulatory focus and adopt a proper style of management in practice.

Key words: destructive leadership, safety performance, regulatory focus, structural equation model(SEM), generational, hierarchy regression analysis

CLC Number:

X936

WANG Dan , GONG Jingjing , CUI Limiao. A study on intergenerational impact of destructive leadership on miners' safety performance[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2017, 27(2): 24-29.

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