Research on the Impact of Corporate Whistleblowing Climate on Top Management Safety Violations

Lan Chen ()
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Lan Chen: Anhui University of Technology, School of Management Science and Engineering

A chapter in Proceedings of the 2026 6th International Conference on Enterprise Management and Economic Development (ICEMED 2026), 2026, pp 124-135 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This study elevates whistleblowing research from the individual behavioral level to the organizational climate level. Based on deterrence theory, it constructs a research model examining how whistleblowing climate influences executive safety violations, exploring the mediating role of perceived formal and informal sanctions and the moderating effect of executives’ bottom-line mentality. A questionnaire survey of 260 production department supervisors and executives in high-risk industries reveals: a significant negative correlation exists between whistleblowing climate and executive safety violations; perceived formal and informal sanctions mediate this relationship; executive bottom-line mentality positively moderates the link between whistleblowing climate and safety violations. This study is the first to validate the organizational effectiveness of whistleblowing climate in the field of workplace safety. It reveals a dual-path mediation mechanism and its boundary conditions for suppressing executive safety violations, providing theoretical foundations and practical insights for curbing accidents at their source and enhancing safety governance.

Keywords: workplace safety; top managers; safety violations; bottom-line mentality; formal punishment; informal punishment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6239-719-4_15

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