Abstract
Employee safety voice refers to publishing opinions and suggestions related to workplace safety issues. In recent years, it has gradually become a hot topic in the field of organizational safety management research. Voice endorsement is the leader’s positive feedback to employees, and it is a necessary condition and key link for employees to achieve the purpose of voicing. Although there are many types of research on employee safety voice behavior and voice endorsement, few studies have explored the relationship between the two. Therefore, through a paired questionnaire survey of 214 leaders and 344 employees in construction projects, drawing on social exchange theory, using leader-member exchange (LMX) as a mediating variable, we discuss the mechanism of voice endorsement on employee safety voice behavior. The results show that in construction projects, voice endorsement negatively affects employee safety voice behavior and LMX, and LMX positively affects employee safety voice behavior. LMX has a mediating role in the relationship between voice endorsement and employee safety voice behavior. The results of this study can provide useful guidance for improving employee safety voice behavior management.
Highlights
In construction projects, accidents occur frequently, which seriously affects the safety of employees and is detrimental to the long-term development of the organization [1].Employee safety voice is significant for preventing accidents and improving the safety performance of the organization [2]
The results show that the indirect effect of leader-member exchange (LMX) is significant in the path of voice endorsement, inhibiting employee safety voice behavior
While some previous studies have shown that supportive leadership behaviors promote LMX [39,56], the results of this paper indicate that voice endorsement can negatively affect LMX, which provides new ideas for LMX theory research
Summary
Employee safety voice is significant for preventing accidents and improving the safety performance of the organization [2]. Defined employee safety voice as “communications designed to change the perceived unsafe working conditions that have an impact on the health of individuals and organizations.”. They argued that the purpose of safety voice is to improve the safety of the working environment (for example, to promote actions to establish safer procedures), and it is challenging to the status quo [3]. As a special type of voice, employee safety voice helps organizations find safety problems and take measures to avoid accidents [4].
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