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Behavior change versus culture change: Divergent approaches to managing workplace safety
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In this article, the authors compare and contrast two prominent and seemingly antagonistic safety management rubrics: the behavior change and culture change approaches to safety, and argue that their respective strengths can be merged into a more balanced and comprehensive approach for managing workplace safety.About:
This article is published in Safety Science.The article was published on 2005-02-01. It has received 292 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Strengths and weaknesses & Culture change.read more
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The use of questionnaires in safety culture research – an evaluation
TL;DR: Safety management has been described through nine separate processes that together encompass the safety management system (SMS) of an organisation as discussed by the authors, which is a set of processes that can be described as nine separate levels of theory and measurement.
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Working to rule, or working safely? Part 1: A state of the art review
Andrew Hale,David Borys +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the literature from 1986 on the management of those safety rules and procedures which relate to the workplace level in organisations can be found in this paper, where the authors compare two different paradigms of how rules and their development and use are perceived and managed.
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Predicting safety behavior in the construction industry: development and test of an integrative model
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and tested an integrative model of construction workers' safety behavior with an attempt to better understand the mechanisms by which key safety climate factors (i.e., management safety commitment, social support, and production pressure) and individual factors (e.g., safety knowledge and safety motivation) influence workers’ safety behavior.
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Proactive behavior-based safety management for construction safety improvement
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed an extension of the Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) approach, proactive behavior-based safety (PBBS), to improve construction safety.
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A system of safety management practices and worker engagement for reducing and preventing accidents: an empirical and theoretical investigation.
Jan K. Wachter,Patrick L. Yorio +1 more
TL;DR: When organizations invest in a safety management system approach to reducing/preventing accidents and improving safety performance, they should also be concerned about winning over the minds and hearts of their workers through human performance-based safety management systems designed to promote and enhance worker engagement.
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Organizational Culture and Leadership
TL;DR: A review of the book "Organizational Culture and Leadership" by Edgar H. Schein is given in this article, where the authors present a review of their approach to organizational culture and leadership.
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An Integrative Model Of Organizational Trust
TL;DR: In this paper, a definition of trust and a model of its antecedents and outcomes are presented, which integrate research from multiple disciplines and differentiate trust from similar constructs, and several research propositions based on the model are presented.
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Organizational Culture and Leadership
TL;DR: In this article, the author analyzes the maturing research in the field of organization studies - the available ethnographic methods, participant observation, qualitative research, and clinical research, concluding that culture functions to solve an organization's basic problems of surviving in the external environment and integrating its internal processes to ensure its continued survival.
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The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Turnover, Productivity, and Corporate Financial Performance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the linkages between systems of high performance work practices and firm performance and found that these practices have an economically and statistically significant impact on both intermediate outcomes (turnover and productivity) and short and long-term measures of corporate financial performance.
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The fifth discipline
TL;DR: Measuring Business Excellence revisits this now landmark work to review its continuing relevance to the aspirant learning organization as discussed by the authors, focusing on the cultural and structural issues they need to confront in order to acquire the flexibility and responsiveness to learn.