Safety voice behavior can play a crucial role in the actual operation of organization safety management. How to motivate employees in high-risk industries to actively provide safety voice and improve the company’s safety performance is an important but under-addressed question.
This research builds a hypothesis model based on social information processing theory, introducing safety motivation and psychological contract as mediating variables, in order to investigate the mechanism of the role of safety-transformational leadership on construction workers’ safety voice behavior. 902 construction workers completed a questionnaire in order to test the research hypotheses through the use of structural equation modeling, correlation analysis, and the Bootstrap test.
According to the research, (1) safety-transformational leadership affects both prohibitive and promotive voice in an advantageous manner; (2) The psychological contract plays a mediating role between safety-transformational leadership and safety voice (promotive voice and prohibitive voice); (3) Through safety motivation, safety-transformational leadership indirectly supports the prohibitive and promotive voice of construction workers.
This research expands the theoretical research of safety voice, helps construction enterprises to provide ideas and methodological support for accident prevention from the perspective of safety voice.
