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Occupational Health and Safety and Organizational Commitment: Evidence from the Ghanaian Mining Industry

  • Amponsah-Tawiah, Kwesi;Mensah, Justice
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.225-230
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    • 2016
  • Background: This study seeks to examine the relationship and impact of occupational health and safety on employees' organizational commitment in Ghana's mining industry. The study explores occupational health and safety and the different dimensions of organizational commitment. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was used for this study. The respondents were selected based on simple random sampling. Out of 400 questionnaires administered, 370 were returned (77.3% male and 22.7% female) and used for the study. Correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to determine the relationship and impact between the variables. Results: The findings of this study revealed positive and significant relationship between occupational health and safety management, and affective, normative, and continuance commitment. Additionally, the results revealed the significant impact of occupational health and safety on affective, normative, and continuance commitment. Conclusion: Management within the mining sector of Ghana must recognize the fact that workers who feel healthy and safe in the performance of their duties, develop emotional attachment and have a sense of obligation to their organization and are most likely committed to the organization. Employees do not just become committed to the organization; rather, they expect management to first think about their health and safety needs by instituting good and sound policy measures. Thus, management should invest in the protection of employees' health and safety in organizations.

A Grounded Theoretical Study on the Experience of Preventing Safety Accidents of Workers at Construction Sites (건설현장 근로자의 안전사고 예방 경험에 대한 근거이론적 연구)

  • Park, Young-Jun;Lim, Un-Na
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2020.11a
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    • pp.63-64
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to find out how construction sites workers experience adaptation processes in relation to the prevention of safety accidents in the workplace through the method of grounded theory. In order to understand the experience of preventing safety accidents of workers at construction sites, a grounded theory analysis method was chosen. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, the first questionnaire was sent to 17 people working in the construction site by e-mail, and the participants of the study were met one by one for in-depth interviews. As a result of this study, the paradigm model of the experience of preventing safety accidents of workers at construction sites was classified into causal conditions, contextual conditions, central phenomena, intervening conditions, action/interactions, and outcomes. The conclusions of this study are as follows. First, forming a safety culture that can improve the safety awareness of construction sites is a priority. Second, it is necessary to improve self-management capabilities so that construction workers can accurately diagnose their current state such as their own body, emotion, and cognition and provide appropriate safety education. Third, providing safety education for construction workers with negative thoughts or distorted beliefs about safety accidents needs to include psychological treatment and counseling, such as methods of emotional purification, methods of relieving and managing stress, and methods of removing trauma.

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Impact of Nurses' Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment on Patient Safety Management Activities in Tertiary Hospitals (상급 종합병원 간호사의 직무만족도와 조직몰입이 환자안전관리 활동에 미치는 영향)

  • Gong, Hyun Hee;Son, Youn-Jung
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.453-462
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on patient safety management activities of nurses. Methods: A cross-sectional design was adopted. The sample included 307 nurses working in three tertiary university hospitals. Data were collected during November and December, 2012, with a response rate of 93%. A 40-item patient safety management activities scale was used to measure patient safety activities. Job satisfaction and organizational commitment were also measured with established instruments and included general characteristics. Data were analyzed with PASW 18.0 program. Results: The mean score for patient safety management activities was 3.98 out of 5. Stepwise multiple linear regression indicated that organizational commitment (${\beta}$=.20, p<.001) and job satisfaction (${\beta}$=.18, p=.013) respectively predicted patient safety management activities. Especially, the addition of organizational commitment as the strongest predictor of patient safety management activities increased the associated explained variance ($R^2$ change=.11, p<.001). Conclusion: It is important for managers to create an organizational climate that promotes the organizational commitment and job satisfaction of nurses. Future studies are encouraged to replicate the findings and also to better understand patient safety management activities and personal emotional stability.

Analysis of the influence of food-related social issues on corporate management performance using a portal search index

  • Yoon, Chaebeen;Hong, Seungjee;Kim, Sounghun
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.955-969
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    • 2019
  • Analyzing on-line consumer responses is directly related to the management performance of food companies. Therefore, this study collected and analyzed data from an on-line portal site created by consumers about food companies with issues and examined the relationships between the data and the management performance. Through this process, we identified consumers' awareness of these companies obtained from big data analysis and analyzed the relationship between the results and the sales and stock prices of the companies through a time-series graph and correlation analysis. The results of this study were as follows. First, the result of the text mining analysis suggests that consumers respond more sensitively to negative issues than to positive issues. Second, the emotional analysis showed that companies' ethics issues (Enterprise 3 and 4) have a higher level of emotional continuity than that of food safety issues. It can be interpreted that the problem of ethical management has great influence on consumers' purchasing behavior. Finally, In the case of all negative food issues, the number of word frequency and emotional scores showed opposite trends. As a result of the correlation analysis, there was a correlation between word frequency and stock price in the case of all negative food issues and also between emotional scores and stock price. Recently, studies using big data analytics have been conducted in various fields. Therefore, based on this research, it is expected that studies using big data analytics will be done in the agricultural field.

Statistical analysis of the emotional labor of firefighters using smart devices (스마트기기 사용에 따른 소방관의 감정노동 통계분석)

  • Shin, Ji-Hun;Park, Bu-Yeon;Lee, Jae-Hong;Song, Sul-Kung
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.10 no.11
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    • pp.1297-1306
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    • 2015
  • The introduction of multimedia 119-notification service utilizing smart devices causes firefighters to be more exposed to emotional labor. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of increased emotional labor of firemen on job satisfaction. As a result, the higher the emotional labor of firefighters is, the higher job stress (${\beta}=0.166$, p=0.000) and social support(${\beta}=0.540$, p=0.000) are. But job satisfaction tends to be lower(${\beta}=-0.136$, p=0.000). As they play an important role to protect the safety and property of citizens. their job satisfaction becomes the driving force of their duty. Therefore, we think that some systematic and substantial prevention curriculum to manage their emotional labor is required.

Factors Affecting Employee Performance: A Case Study of Railway Maintenance and Engineering Organizations in Thailand

  • POLANANT, Kanut;ROJNIRUTTIKUL, Nuttawut
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.9
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    • pp.271-281
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    • 2022
  • The objectives of the research are to study the effects of emotional intelligence (EI), reward management (RM), and occupational health and safety (OHS), on employee performance (EP) within a Thai motor service and repair firm. Starting in January 2022 through the end of March 2022, the researchers used simple random sampling techniques to select 88 employees for the case study. The research instrument was a questionnaire with an IOC value between 0.67-1.00 and a reliability value α of 0.78. Survey participants were asked to contribute their opinions to a five-level opinion survey which was hosted on Google Forms. Descriptive statistics analysis (mean and standard deviation) and multiple linear regression analysis were done using SPSS for Windows version 21. The results showed that employee opinions concerning EI, RM, OHS, and EP were at a high level, with the three hypotheses testing showing statistical significance (p ≤ 0.01). The decision coefficients (R2) all revealed relationship strength with RM = 0.861, OHS = 0.853, and EI = 0.731.

The Effects of Leadership on the Cockpit Culture in Commercial Airlines (리더십이 민간항공 조종실 문화에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Young-Kil;Byeon, Soon-cheol
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.344-356
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    • 2021
  • In the field of civil aviation in Korea, inappropriate crew resources management(CRM) constantly occurs between captains and first officers during flight. Therefore, the active role of first officers is emphasized in pilot training for CRM, threat & error management(TEM), safety management system(SMS), fatigue risk management system(FRMS), and training in simulators. Thus, it is urgent for captains to change their transformational leadership to emotional leadership, advantages of which include horizontal interpersonal relationship, open-mindedness, leading by example, considerateness, mutual respect, and using informal language. For the direction to improve 'the cockpit culture' in civil aviation, the key idea of the current thesis paper is the influence of captains' transformational and emotional leadership on the emotions of first officers.

A Study on the Effect of Servant Leadership on Positive Psychological Capital of Marine Police Officers (해양경찰공무원의 서번트리더십이 긍정심리자본에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Jong-gil Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.52-59
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to study the effect of maritime police officials' servant leadership on positive psychological capital. The subjects of the study were 167 maritime police of icials, and the results of the analysis are as follows. First, it was found that servant leadership affects positive psychological capital. Specifically, in the case of sub-variables, growth support and ethical behavior had a positive (+) effect on self-efficacy. However, community value creation and emotional healing did not affect self-ef icacy. Second, growth support and ethical behavior were found to have a positive (+) effect on optimism. However, community values and emotional healing did not affect optimism. Third, growth support, ethical behavior, and community value creation were found to have a positive (+) effect on resilience. However, emotional healing did not affect resilience. These results will serve as basic data for the human management of the maritime police.

Job Stress and Neuropeptide Response Contributing to Food Intake Regulation

  • Kim, Ki-Woong;Won, Yong Lim;Ko, Kyung Sun;Kang, Seong-Kyu
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.415-420
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of the present study is to investigate the correlations between food intake behavior and job stress level and neuropeptide hormone concentrations. Job strain and food intake behavior were first identified using a self-reported questionnaire, concentrations of neuropeptide hormones (adiponectin, brain derived neurotrophic factor [BDNF], leptin, and ghrelin) were determined, and the correlations were analyzed. In the results, job strain showed significant correlations with adiponectin (odds ratio [OR], 1.220; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.001~1.498; p < 0.05) and BDNF (OR, 0.793; 95% CI, 0.646~0.974; p < 0.05), and ghrelin exhibited a significant correlation with food intake score (OR, 0.911; 95% CI, 0.842~0.985, p < 0.05). These results suggest that job stress affects food intake regulation by altering the physiological concentrations of neuropeptide hormones as well as emotional status.

A Study on the Evaluation of Job Stresses for Managers in the Construction Industry (건설업 관리직의 직무스트레스 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Do-Young;Kim, Wan-Jin;Yi, Young-Seop
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.22 no.3 s.81
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2007
  • Job stresses are realized as harmful factors affected workers' mental health. Job stresses can be defined as the physical and emotional responses that are occurred when the job requirements should be beyond the workers' abilities, followed with health problems and even work-related injuries. Job stresses could be resulted from the work environment and conditions related with workers' personality. This study is conducted to evaluate the job stresses for managers in the construction industry, by the questionaires which collected 302(75.5%) among 400 ones. The evaluation items are the levels of job stresses and stressors as well as the relationship between the variables. The controls should be recommended for physical and mental health.