Influence mechanism of team-level transformational leadership on individual-level safety outcomes: an empirical study based on oilfield company

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2017.01.026

Abstract

Abstract: To further explore the relationships among the transformational leadership, the safety climate and the safety outcomes, a multi-level mediation model was built on the basis of the previous findings. A questionnaire survey was carried out into 670 crude oil production workers of 67 groups in a certain oilfield company in China. The model was tested by using the data obtained from the survey and the SEM method. The results show that the transformational leadership has a positive effect on the safety climate on the team level, that the safety climate has a positive effect on the safety outcomes indicated by near-miss and injures on cross level, and that the transformational leadership has a positive effect on the safety outcomes through the safety climate.

Key words: transformational leadership, safety climate, safety outcome, mediation, multilevel structural equation model(SEM)

CLC Number:

X923

LI Yangxia, WU Xuanna, LI Feng. Influence mechanism of team-level transformational leadership on individual-level safety outcomes: an empirical study based on oilfield company[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2017, 27(1): 146-150.

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