Research on the Influence Mechanism of Personal Initiative on Enterprise Emergency Management Ability.

Shuang Li,Qifeng Yang,Zhengquan Xu,Feng Xu,Yuqing Kang

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.618034

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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.618034

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Abstract

This study aims to explore the influence mechanism of personal initiative on the overall emergency management ability of enterprises so as to put forward effective measures to improve the emergency management ability. Based on social interaction theory and feature activation theory, the concepts of organizational support theory, executive power, and political skills were introduced to construct a corresponding theoretical model. We collected data through an online questionnaire to test this model via structural equation model analysis and regression analysis, with 208 participants of varying backgrounds. The results show that personal initiative can strengthen enterprise emergency management ability. The mediating effect of executive power between personal initiative and emergency management ability of enterprise has also been proved. In addition, the two adjustment variables of political skills and perceived organizational support both have a positive impact on the improvement of personal initiative and execution. Therefore, in order to improve the enterprise emergency management ability, it is suggested that enterprises should give full play to the personal initiative and improve the individual and overall executive power. The conclusion of this paper can provide new methodological support for improving emergency management ability.

Highlights

Emergency management has been attracting attention from all walks of life in recent years (Chen, 2016; Lu and Zhang, 2016; Qin, 2016; Wu and Lei, 2019)
The Hypotheses 1–4 in this study were verified to be true, which confirms the positive effect of personal initiative on executive power as well as enterprise emergency management ability, and the intermediary effect of executive power in this model is proved
Political skills have a significant moderating effect between personal initiative and executive power, it presents a weakening effect contrary to the assumption, that is, individuals with high political skills will weaken the positive impact of their initiative on executive power

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Emergency management has been attracting attention from all walks of life in recent years (Chen, 2016; Lu and Zhang, 2016; Qin, 2016; Wu and Lei, 2019). In the face of emergencies, under the orderly leadership of the state, effective use of the emergency management ability of the organization can effectively alleviate and contain the spread of adverse events, so it is very important to enhance this ability in daily work (Chang, 2017; Wang, 2018). In the research of various safety accidents and production hazards and other emergency management objects, human factors are always important strategic application points (Qi et al, 2020; Xu, 2020; Zhang, 2020). Personal Initiative in Emergency Management and professional skills training of training personnel (Wei et al, 2019; Kong et al, 2020; Ren and Nie, 2020), which belong to the category that organizations urge individuals to passively change to meet requirements under the pressure of security assessment and other policies.

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