Should We Agree to Disagree? The Multilevel Moderated Relationship Between Safety Climate Strength And Individual Safety Motivation

© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Organisational research investigating climate perceptions often use constructs reflecting dispersion and disagreement, termed ‘climate strength’, to investigate situational pressures on behaviour expression. Within safety-spe...

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Main Authors: Flatau-Harrison, H., Griffin, Mark, Gagné, Marylène
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: SPRINGER 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80472
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author Flatau-Harrison, H.
Griffin, Mark
Gagné, Marylène
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Griffin, Mark
Gagné, Marylène
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description © 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Organisational research investigating climate perceptions often use constructs reflecting dispersion and disagreement, termed ‘climate strength’, to investigate situational pressures on behaviour expression. Within safety-specific contexts, research has tended to emphasise the prediction of climate strength rather than an examination of its effects on behaviour. The present paper investigates the important first pathway in the prediction of safety behaviour by investigating the influence of safety climate strength on the relationship between safety climate perceptions and individual safety motivation in a safety critical context using multilevel analyses. Contrary to expectations, results initially indicated that safety climate strength negatively influenced the relationship between safety climate perceptions and safety motivation, such that greater variability was associated with greater motivation. Post hoc analysis re-grouping responses into broader functional levels found support for an interaction, suggesting a difference in the scope of influence for safety climate strength between the two levels of analysis. These findings are discussed in light of self-determination theory, and suggestions for future research and practice made.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-804722023-06-13T02:58:36Z Should We Agree to Disagree? The Multilevel Moderated Relationship Between Safety Climate Strength And Individual Safety Motivation Flatau-Harrison, H. Griffin, Mark Gagné, Marylène Social Sciences Business Psychology, Applied Business & Economics Psychology Safety motivation Safety climate strength Safety climate Multilevel moderation Self-determination theory SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY ORGANIZATIONAL-CLIMATE CROSS-LEVEL TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP SITUATIONAL STRENGTH INTRINSIC MOTIVATION ANTECEDENTS WORK CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR © 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Organisational research investigating climate perceptions often use constructs reflecting dispersion and disagreement, termed ‘climate strength’, to investigate situational pressures on behaviour expression. Within safety-specific contexts, research has tended to emphasise the prediction of climate strength rather than an examination of its effects on behaviour. The present paper investigates the important first pathway in the prediction of safety behaviour by investigating the influence of safety climate strength on the relationship between safety climate perceptions and individual safety motivation in a safety critical context using multilevel analyses. Contrary to expectations, results initially indicated that safety climate strength negatively influenced the relationship between safety climate perceptions and safety motivation, such that greater variability was associated with greater motivation. Post hoc analysis re-grouping responses into broader functional levels found support for an interaction, suggesting a difference in the scope of influence for safety climate strength between the two levels of analysis. These findings are discussed in light of self-determination theory, and suggestions for future research and practice made. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80472 10.1007/s10869-020-09696-2 English SPRINGER fulltext
spellingShingle Social Sciences
Business
Psychology, Applied
Business & Economics
Psychology
Safety motivation
Safety climate strength
Safety climate
Multilevel moderation
Self-determination theory
SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY
ORGANIZATIONAL-CLIMATE
CROSS-LEVEL
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
SITUATIONAL STRENGTH
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
ANTECEDENTS
WORK
CITIZENSHIP
BEHAVIOR
Flatau-Harrison, H.
Griffin, Mark
Gagné, Marylène
Should We Agree to Disagree? The Multilevel Moderated Relationship Between Safety Climate Strength And Individual Safety Motivation
title Should We Agree to Disagree? The Multilevel Moderated Relationship Between Safety Climate Strength And Individual Safety Motivation
title_full Should We Agree to Disagree? The Multilevel Moderated Relationship Between Safety Climate Strength And Individual Safety Motivation
title_fullStr Should We Agree to Disagree? The Multilevel Moderated Relationship Between Safety Climate Strength And Individual Safety Motivation
title_full_unstemmed Should We Agree to Disagree? The Multilevel Moderated Relationship Between Safety Climate Strength And Individual Safety Motivation
title_short Should We Agree to Disagree? The Multilevel Moderated Relationship Between Safety Climate Strength And Individual Safety Motivation
title_sort should we agree to disagree? the multilevel moderated relationship between safety climate strength and individual safety motivation
topic Social Sciences
Business
Psychology, Applied
Business & Economics
Psychology
Safety motivation
Safety climate strength
Safety climate
Multilevel moderation
Self-determination theory
SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY
ORGANIZATIONAL-CLIMATE
CROSS-LEVEL
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
SITUATIONAL STRENGTH
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
ANTECEDENTS
WORK
CITIZENSHIP
BEHAVIOR
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80472