Influence of Safety Leadership of Manager in Construction Site on Workers’ Safety Attitude and Behavior : Focused on Self-Serving Bias 


Vol. 35,  No. 2, pp. 76-83, Apr.  2020
10.14346/JKOSOS.2020.35.2.76


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  Abstract

This study examined the effects of perceptual differences of safety leadership between managers and workers on workers’ safety attitudes and behavior in two construction sites. In addition, the mediating role of safety attitude between safety leadership and safety behavior across discrepancy level of safety leadership. This study was conducted on two first-tier construction companies within the 100th place in 2019. Two companies were similar in size(100 - 150 billion won) and process from the basement frame finishing stage to start of the ground structure of apartment. In A Site, 40 managers and 73 workers, 42 managers and 77 workers in B site participated the survey on managers’ safety leadership, and workers’ safety attitude and behavior. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the safety leadership scores assessed by the manager and workers at site B. However, the safety leadership scores assessed by the managers were significantly higher than that by the workers at site A. The workers’ safety attitudes and behaviors at site B were higher than those of workers at site A. Moreover, Site B was significantly higher in the effects of safety leadership on safety behavior than Site A. At site B, safety leadership had a significant influence on safety behavior even after controlling the safety attitude of workers. At site A, safety leadership had no significant effect on safety behavior after controlling safety attitude. These findings suggest that there is managers’ self-serving bias on safety leadership in site A and that this bias of leadership can negatively affect workers' safety attitude and behaviors. In addition, it can be seen that if the self-serving bias on safety leadership occurs, the manager's safety leadership has less influence on workers' safety behavior.

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[IEEE Style]

이종현 and 문광수, "Influence of Safety Leadership of Manager in Construction Site on Workers’ Safety Attitude and Behavior : Focused on Self-Serving Bias," Journal of the Korean Society of Safety, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 76-83, 2020. DOI: 10.14346/JKOSOS.2020.35.2.76.

[ACM Style]

이종현 and 문광수. 2020. Influence of Safety Leadership of Manager in Construction Site on Workers’ Safety Attitude and Behavior : Focused on Self-Serving Bias. Journal of the Korean Society of Safety, 35, 2, (2020), 76-83. DOI: 10.14346/JKOSOS.2020.35.2.76.