Transformational Leadership and Employee Safety Performance: A Within-Person, Between-Jobs Design

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology Vol 15. Issue 3. Year 2010. Page: 279-290

University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-568

Posted: 11 Jun 2013

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Michelle Inness

University of Alberta - Department of Strategic Management and Organization

Nick Turner

University of Calgary

Julian Barling

Queen's University; Queen's University - Smith School of Business

Christopher Stride

University of Sheffield - Department of Psychology

Date Written: July 1, 2009

Abstract

We investigated the extent to which the safety performance (i.e., self-reported safety compliance and safety participation) of employees with 2 jobs was predicted by their respective supervisors' transformational leadership behaviors. We compared 2 within-person models: a context-specific model (i.e., transformational leadership experienced by employees in 1 context related to those same employees' safety performance only in that context) and a context-spillover model (i.e., transformational leadership experienced by employees in 1 context related to those same employees' safety performance in the same and other contexts). Our sample comprised 159 “moonlighters” (73 men, 86 women): employees who simultaneously hold 2 different jobs, each with a different supervisor, providing within-person data on the influence of different supervisors on employee safety performance across 2 job contexts. Having controlled for individual differences (negative affectivity and conscientiousness) and work characteristics (e.g., hours worked and length of relationship with supervisor), the context-specific model provided the best fit to the data among alternative nested models. Implications for the role of transformational leadership in promoting workplace safety are discussed.

Suggested Citation

Inness, Michelle and Turner, Nick and Barling, Julian and Stride, Christopher, Transformational Leadership and Employee Safety Performance: A Within-Person, Between-Jobs Design (July 1, 2009). Journal of Occupational Health Psychology Vol 15. Issue 3. Year 2010. Page: 279-290, University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-568, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2277084

Michelle Inness (Contact Author)

University of Alberta - Department of Strategic Management and Organization ( email )

Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R6
Canada

Nick Turner

University of Calgary ( email )

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Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada
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Julian Barling

Queen's University ( email )

Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 K7L 3N6
Canada

Queen's University - Smith School of Business ( email )

Smith School of Business - Queen's University
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Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
Canada

Christopher Stride

University of Sheffield - Department of Psychology ( email )

Sheffield S10 2TN
United Kingdom
+44 0 114 222 3262 (Phone)
+44 0 114 272 7206 (Fax)

HOME PAGE: http://www.shef.ac.uk/departments/academic/iwp/staff/chriss.html

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