Findings from Dongbei University of Finance & Economics Provides New Data about Manufacturing (Emergence of Informal Safety Leadership: a Social-cognitive Process for Accident Prevention)

2021 AUG 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Tech Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Business - Manufacturing. According to news reporting originating from Dalian, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “As an important domain of disaster management, accident prevention is an urgent and crucial subject because of the high frequency and severe consequences of industrial accidents in recent times. Current researchers focus on organization-level safety antecedents, among which leadership receives the highest attention.”

Funders for this research include National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), MOE (Ministry of Education of China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Dongbei University of Finance & Economics, “However, formal leadership of senior managers is limited by the level-by-level effect attenuation, such that frontline accidents cannot be controlled substantially. Thus, this study proposes the construct of informal safety leadership (ISL), which emerges among frontline workers through socially cognitive interactions. We develop a moderated mediating conceptual model to explore the ISL emergence mechanism from the social-cognitive perspective. Across two studies, that is, a three-wave field study and an agent-based modeling simulation experiment, we find that three social-cognitive elements are positively associated with ISL emergence, which in turn predicts safety organizational citizenship behavior and perceived followership. Moreover, this relationship is conditional on formal leadership support. We contribute to disaster management literature by articulating how informal leaders emerge from the operational frontline to possess safety leadership traits. We also give insight into leadership emergence by clearly indicating that who becomes a leader is an inherently social process, dependent on peers who bestow influence to a person engaging in leader-like behaviors.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We thus provide a unique perspective on practical efforts to leverage benefits of the closest and most immediate leadership in frontline accident prevention.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Emergence of Informal Safety Leadership: a Social-cognitive Process for Accident Prevention. Production and Operations Management, 2021. Production and Operations Management can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Production and Operations Management - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1937-5956)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Xin Ning, Dongbei University of Finance & Economics, Sch Investment & Construct Management, 217 Jianshan St, Dalian 116025, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Chunlin Wu, Han Yao and Lei Wang.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13523. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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