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Journal article
Employee engagement, boredom and frontline construction workers feeling safe in their workplace
Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.93, pp.291-298
2016
Abstract
Systems thinking is a philosophy currently prevalent within construction safety literature that is applied to understand and improve safety in sociotechnical systems. Among systems, the site-project organizational system is of particular interest to this paper. Using focus group and survey feedback research to learn about how safety incidents effect levels of construction workers engagement this paper reveals how a safety incident provides an opportunity to create a potential quality (productivity) upgrade within an organization. The research approach involved a qualitative study involving 27 frontline supervisors and a follow-up survey completed by 207 frontline workers in the Australian Asphalt and Pavement Industry. The focus group interviews supported the articulation of the concepts of tacit safety, explicit safety, situational awareness, foresight ability, practical intelligence and crew synergy. Our findings indicate that having regular shift changes and other job site workers being fatigued are influential on perceptions of tacit safety. An individual's foresight ability was found to be the most potent predictor of worker perceptions of work engagement. The paper explains that relatively small improvements in worker perceptions of safety can bring about significant improvements in employee engagement and productivity.
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- Title
- Employee engagement, boredom and frontline construction workers feeling safe in their workplace
- Authors
- John Whiteoak (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and BusinessSherif Mohamed (Author) - Griffith University
- Publication details
- Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.93, pp.291-298
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd.
- Date published
- 2016
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.aap.2015.11.001
- ISSN
- 0001-4575
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449815702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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