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"Servant Leadership Makes Safety" : The Effect of Job Insecurity on Safety Behavior

"서번트 리더십이 안전을 만든다." : 고용 불안정성이 안전 행동에 미치는 영향

  • Kim, Byung-Jik (Department of Business Administration, University of Ulsan)
  • Received : 2022.02.15
  • Accepted : 2022.03.28
  • Published : 2022.03.31
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Abstract

Since the competitive environment, it has become common for firms to reduce its workforce to diminish operating cost. Accordingly, job insecurity among employees has been increasing. Previous works on job insecurity have not paid adequate attention to the influence of job insecurity on safety behavior. The current paper investigates the impact of job insecurity on safety behavior and its intermediating mechanisms. In specific, this paper delves into the mediating effect of job stress, as well as the moderating effect of servant leadership in the association between job insecurity and job stress. The results demonstrated that that job insecurity has a positive (+) influence on job stress, which has a negative (-) influence on safety behavior. Moreover, job stress mediated the association between job insecurity and safety behavior. Furthermore, servant leadership moderated the job insecurity-safety behavior link.

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