The Impact of Organizational Culture on Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees\' Job Satisfaction: A Case Study
Background: Employees' awareness about safety is a required element to develop a safe behavior so that it allows designing programs to improve safety performance at work. Therefore, the present study attempts to examine the effects of organizational culture on personal safety level with employe...
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| author | Behnoush Jafari Gholamabbas Shirali Payam Amini bahram Kohnavard seyd Amin Jazayeri |
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| description | Background: Employees' awareness about safety is a required element to develop a safe behavior so that it allows designing programs to improve safety performance at work. Therefore, the present study attempts to examine the effects of organizational culture on personal safety level with employees' satisfaction as a mediation variable. Methods: This descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted with 229 steel industry workers using a standard questionnaire. The questionnaire had 47 items arranged in two sections, including demographics and job information as section one and organizational culture, personnel safety awareness, and employees' satisfaction as section two. Data analyses were done using SPSS and LISREL, and the relationships between the variables were determined using a structural equations model. Results: The mean score of satisfaction and personnel safety awareness was equal to 54.58 and 8.65, respectively. The highest mean score of organizational culture dimensions was obtained for patriarchy vs. matriarchy (33.2), and the lowest mean score was obtained for individualism vs. collectivism (16.08). Organizational culture was notably and positively affected by individualism vs. collectivism, avoiding uncertainty, and distance from power. In addition, there was a significant relationship between the total mean score of the dimensions of the organizational culture questionnaire and work wards (P<0.001). Conclusion: The study showed that organizational culture has a direct relationship with personnel safety awareness and job satisfaction. These results point out that the human factor has the most important role in preventing occupational accidents. Accordingly, businesses and employers should establish and disseminate organizational culture in their organizations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c20df98e7cd42458f4b1d5059cc217b2024-02-14T06:43:38ZengShahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, IranArchives of Occupational Health2588-30702588-36902021-10-015411311138The Impact of Organizational Culture on Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees\' Job Satisfaction: A Case StudyBehnoush Jafari0Gholamabbas Shirali1Payam Amini2bahram Kohnavard3seyd Amin Jazayeri4 Department of Occupational Health Engineering and Occupational Safety, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran Department of Occupational Health Engineering and Occupational Safety, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran Supervisor of Safety Department & Technical protection of Oxin Steel Background: Employees' awareness about safety is a required element to develop a safe behavior so that it allows designing programs to improve safety performance at work. Therefore, the present study attempts to examine the effects of organizational culture on personal safety level with employees' satisfaction as a mediation variable. Methods: This descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted with 229 steel industry workers using a standard questionnaire. The questionnaire had 47 items arranged in two sections, including demographics and job information as section one and organizational culture, personnel safety awareness, and employees' satisfaction as section two. Data analyses were done using SPSS and LISREL, and the relationships between the variables were determined using a structural equations model. Results: The mean score of satisfaction and personnel safety awareness was equal to 54.58 and 8.65, respectively. The highest mean score of organizational culture dimensions was obtained for patriarchy vs. matriarchy (33.2), and the lowest mean score was obtained for individualism vs. collectivism (16.08). Organizational culture was notably and positively affected by individualism vs. collectivism, avoiding uncertainty, and distance from power. In addition, there was a significant relationship between the total mean score of the dimensions of the organizational culture questionnaire and work wards (P<0.001). Conclusion: The study showed that organizational culture has a direct relationship with personnel safety awareness and job satisfaction. These results point out that the human factor has the most important role in preventing occupational accidents. Accordingly, businesses and employers should establish and disseminate organizational culture in their organizations.http://aoh.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-267-en.pdforganizational culturesafety-consciousjob satisfactionsteel industry |
| spellingShingle | Behnoush Jafari Gholamabbas Shirali Payam Amini bahram Kohnavard seyd Amin Jazayeri The Impact of Organizational Culture on Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees\' Job Satisfaction: A Case Study Archives of Occupational Health organizational culture safety-conscious job satisfaction steel industry |
| title | The Impact of Organizational Culture on
Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees\' Job Satisfaction: A Case Study |
| title_full | The Impact of Organizational Culture on
Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees\' Job Satisfaction: A Case Study |
| title_fullStr | The Impact of Organizational Culture on
Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees\' Job Satisfaction: A Case Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of Organizational Culture on
Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees\' Job Satisfaction: A Case Study |
| title_short | The Impact of Organizational Culture on
Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees\' Job Satisfaction: A Case Study |
| title_sort | impact of organizational culture on safety conscious considering the mediating role of employees job satisfaction a case study |
| topic | organizational culture safety-conscious job satisfaction steel industry |
| url | http://aoh.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-267-en.pdf |
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