Meta-analysis on impact of safety leadership on employees' safety behavior

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2020.05.002

Abstract

Abstract: In order to summarize impact mechanism of safety leadership on employees' safety behavior more systematically, meta-analysis was conducted to explore relationship between safety leadership, safety climate and employees' behavior by integrating 62 independent samples from 55 empirical studies, and then adjustment effects of cultural differences and enterprise sizes were investigated. The results show that safety climate partially mediates relationship between transformational safety leadership and every dimension of employees' safety behavior, and also partially mediates that between transactional safety leadership and employees' safety compliance behavior while completely mediates that between transactional safety leadership and employees' safety participation behavior. Transformational safety leadership has a greater impact on safety participation behavior compared with transactional leadership which exerts a greater impact on safety compliance behavior. And effects of safety leadership on safety behavior is more significant in the context of oriental culture and large-scale enterprises.

Key words: transformational safety leadership, transactional safety leadership, safety climate, employees'safety behavior, meta-analysis

CLC Number:

X911

CHEN Huazhong, LIU Suxia, MEI Qiang. Meta-analysis on impact of safety leadership on employees' safety behavior[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2020, 30(5): 7-13.

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