Which management/HR concepts have the strongest impacts on organisational behaviour indices? This 2016 study, impressively, compiled and calculated the pooled results from >250 meta-analyses from the past 30 years to answer this question. This may be a useful reference for your own work. Key tabulated results in the attached image (I’ve somewhat-arbitrarily highlighted the effect… Continue reading Meta-analysis of 30 years of management and HR constructs: leadership, culture, climate & structure the strongest predictors

This explored how leader motivating language and follower self-leadership influence a follower’s feelings of psychological safety (PS). Data was via online survey and 427 respondents from India and 452 from USA. Providing background: Results Key findings were: o Self-leadership and ML significantly influenced PS in India and USAo This influence occurred via mediating influence of… Continue reading Sound and Safe: The Role of Leader Motivating Language and Follower Self-Leadership in Feelings of Psychological Safety

Do different near miss types result in different organisational learning responses? A 2021 paper I summarised, with Amy Edmondson as co-author, explored this question. Post in the next couple of weeks. The six event types were: They found that “could have” events were viewed as “less successful” than “almost happened” events, and more likely to… Continue reading Near misses and good catches and their relationships to learning, or not

What is the relationship between the role of leader’s use of motivating language and of follower self-leadership skills in facilitating feelings of psychological safety (PS)? New study I’ve summarised explored this question – post in the next week or two. Key findings were that: o  Self-leadership and motivating language (ML) significantly influenced PS in India and… Continue reading The links between leader motivating language and follower self-leadership on psychological safety

By way of video and interviews, this study explored the ways insulation installers working in the Australian construction industry reflect on their work practices and explained the gaps between procedures and practice. The authors argue a more nuanced lens around procedure departures is important because traditional approaches to OHS can assume that rule departures are… Continue reading Using participatory video to understand subcontracted construction workers’ safety rule violations

On the back of the Safety of Work podcast around safety walkarounds – here’s a systematic review of studies that may interest you. It’s from 2014—so missing a lot of newer studies, and it’s health-care focused. But, it still evaluated 43 studies. Overall they found that safety walkarounds: However, they also identified: Finally, while many… Continue reading Systematic review of safety walkaround evidence

This paper explored the relationship between CEO leadership language and safety at BP prior to the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion. Their main lenses are those of ideology and metaphor (via ‘CEO-speak’). This paper is really detailed and dense, so I can’t do it justice. Key data was the then CEO Tony Hayward’s Annual General… Continue reading CEO speeches and safety culture: British Petroleum before the Deepwater Horizon disaster

Not much to add here – just an interesting paper that explored safety reporting in voluntary annual disclosures. “Of the data presented, the authors also say that “of OHS accounting appear to construct a reality in which occupational illness and injury severity are largely ignored and all non-fatal lost time injuries are equal” (p125), which… Continue reading Annual OHS corporate disclosures and ‘safewashing’ of data

“Safety is our number one priority”, so says leadership. Interestingly, this was also mentioned by the CEO at BP prior to the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo disaster. I just summarised a 2016 paper which analysed the “CEO-speak” of BP leaders prior to the disaster. Summary posted in a week or two. They found that: ·        Overall, by analysing… Continue reading CEO-speak and the Deepwater Horizon explosion

What biases are present in construction safety investigations? A new study from Thallapureddy, Sherratt, Bhandari, Hallowell & Hansen explored this question via role-play simulation interviews. They found the following to be common biases:1) Confirmation bias2) Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE)3) Past experience bias4) Anchoring bias5) Hindsight bias6) Conservatism in belief revision. Post in the next week or two –… Continue reading Biases in construction safety investigations – roleplay scenario study