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Safety Culture and Collective Commitment in Organizational Context

Authors : Jarno Einolander, Jussi Kantola, Hannu Vanharanta, Evangelos Markopoulos

Published in: Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In nuclear power plants and process industry safety is the number one priority over profitability and productivity. In such high-risk environments where individuals work independently their decisions can lead to dangerous situations to coworkers, organizations or even to society. In many cases, a loose commitment to occupational role causes individual to perceive safety culture as something too much detailed which makes them to lose focus on what is important regarding the safety culture. In our view, this is a problem for collective safety culture to raise to a higher level. To understand organizations collective safety culture and safety consciousness it is important to analyze employees individually to see what are their internal feelings, understanding and aims. This paper presents a joint analysis of organization’s safety culture and commitment towards their organization by utilizing also Company Democracy Model (CDM).

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Metadata
Title
Safety Culture and Collective Commitment in Organizational Context
Authors
Jarno Einolander
Jussi Kantola
Hannu Vanharanta
Evangelos Markopoulos
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-60371-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-60372-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_15

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