Examining the dimensions of employee safety behavior: Validation from the microfinance sector of Pakistan

Hira Rani Shaikh,Syed Mir Mohammad Shah

doi:10.21833/ijaas.2021.02.003

Hira Rani Shaikh, Syed Mir Mohammad Shah

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https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.02.003

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Employee safety behavior is a dynamic phenomenon that takes place in every organization where employee’s concerns are taken for granted. Organizations and their respective authority are in search of ways to reduce the magnitude of such behavior by counseling employees. Research scholars play an important role in understanding and developing employee safety behavior. In this regard, specifically for assessing the way and magnitude of employee safety behavior (ESB), researchers have developed a tool to measure it. For achieving such an objective, researchers theoretically proposed the indicators to measure employee safety behavior effectively. These behaviors were: Avoidance and aggression coded as SBAV (safety behavior for avoidance) and SBAG (safety behavior for aggression). The present study strengthens the theoretical rationale of previous studies and validated the psychometric properties of employee safety behavior in the Pakistani context. 400 employees from 11 branches situated in different regions were surveyed, and data was analyzed using SMART PLS 3.0–software prominent due to its methodological usefulness. Findings illustrated that instrument satisfaction met the criteria of internal consistency reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity for both ESB dimensions. Findings clearly demonstrated that the ESB scale is effective enough in measuring employee safety behavior in the microfinance sector of Sindh, Pakistan. Hence, Future researchers are recommended to use this tool in measuring employee safety behavior in developing countries, specifically in Pakistan.

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Employee safety behavior is a dynamic phenomenon that takes place in every organization where employee’s concerns are taken for granted
Their research suggests that experience of any harmful behavior or mistreatment by the supervisor/organization gives rise to aggression and avoidance by a concerned employee in order to repay their mistreatment
The scale of employee safety behavior consisting of two dimensionsavoidance and aggression-needs to be validated, especially in developing contexts because the mere explanation that avoidance and aggression play a key role in endorsing employee safety behavior is not enough

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Employee safety behavior is a dynamic phenomenon that takes place in every organization where employee’s concerns are taken for granted Organizations and their respective authority are in search of ways to reduce the magnitude of such behavior by counseling employees. Research scholars play an important role in understanding and developing employee safety behavior In this regard, for assessing the way and magnitude of employee safety behavior (ESB), researchers have developed a tool to measure it. For assessing the way and magnitude of employee safety behavior (ESB), researchers have developed a tool to measure it For achieving such an objective, researchers theoretically proposed the indicators to measure employee safety behavior effectively. A person indulged in stressful life trauma always prefers ‘back seat driving.’. A person indulged in stressful life trauma always prefers ‘back seat driving.’ Though this type of behavior does not reduce the risk or intensity of experienced stressful events; rather, it creates disturbance and feelings of irritation for fellow passengers, especially car driver

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