The Mediating Role of Job Competence between Safety Participation and Behavioral Compliance

Jia-Ming Wang, Pin-Chao Liao and Guan-Biao Yu
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Jia-Ming Wang: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Pin-Chao Liao: Department of Construction Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Guan-Biao Yu: Department of Construction Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 11, 1-19

Abstract: The effective improvement of employee behavioral compliance and safety performance is an important subject related to the sustainable development of the construction industry. Based on data from a Chinese company ( n = 290), this study used a partial least squares-structural equation model to clarify the relationship among safety participation, job competence, and behavioral compliance. Empirical analysis found that: (1) safety participation had a significant positive impact on employees’ behavioral compliance; and (2) job competence played a partial mediating role between safety participation and behavioral compliance. By selecting two new perspectives of safety participation and job competence, this study derived new factors affecting behavioral compliance, constructed a new theory about safety management, and conducted an in-depth discussion on improving behavioral compliance theoretically. Practically, the research put forward a new decision-making model, deconstructed the mechanism between safety participation and behavioral compliance, and provided new guiding strategies for improving employee behavioral compliance.

Keywords: behavioral compliance; job competence; mediate; safety participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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