- Title
- Using the psychological contract to measure safety outcomes on construction sites
- Creator
- Newaz, Mohammad Tanvi; Jefferies, Marcus; Davis, Peter; Pillay, Manikam
- Relation
- 32nd Annual ARCOM Conference . Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ARCOM Conference (Manchester, UK 5-7 September, 2016) p. 487-496
- Relation
- http://www.arcom.ac.uk/abstracts-results.php?s=32nd%20Annual%20ARCOM%20Conference&v=&i=&b=b&p=12825#12825
- Publisher
- Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- The influence of different level managers on safety management in the workplace has been the subject of interest to many researchers. However, senior managers have little contact with 'workers' at the construction worksite who instead take daily direction from lower-level managers/supervisors. As a result, the mechanisms of managerial influence on organizational safety outcomes are poorly understood and yet the daily interactions between supervisor and workers influences safety outcomes. This research uses the concept of the 'Psychological Contract' (PC) based on perceived mutual obligations between the supervisor-worker. When using this concept to consider safety, it may be termed as 'PC of Safety' and the impact of fulfilment/breach of PC on worker behaviour can be hypothetically compared with the impact of PC of safety on workers safety behaviour. This safety behaviour of workers is shaped by the PC of safety between the supervisor-worker, which ultimately causes safety outcomes, e.g. accident rates. Accordingly, a model is proposed of the PC of safety to measure the safety outcomes mediated by workers safety behaviour. Using the supervisor-worker relationship as a unit of analysis, this model has the potential to reveal the relationship between PC of safety and safety behaviour and its effect on safety outcomes.
- Subject
- psychological contract; safety behaviour; safety outcomes; workers’ safety
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1326391
- Identifier
- uon:25424
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780995546301
- Language
- eng
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