A Study of the Influences of Safety Leadership and Safety Management on Hi-Tech Industry Employee’s Safety Cognition.-Safety Culture as the Mediating Variable.

碩士 === 國立高雄應用科技大學 === 人力資源發展系碩士班 === 96 === Labor consciousness is gaining ground and labor safety is taken seriously in recent years. High- tech industries, for the purpose of productivity improvement, are unable to attend to every aspect of labor safety. Once the injury occurred, it will be a thre...

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Main Authors: Hou,Yen-Lung, 侯艷隆
Other Authors: 王湧泉
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92960000192190504120
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Summary:碩士 === 國立高雄應用科技大學 === 人力資源發展系碩士班 === 96 === Labor consciousness is gaining ground and labor safety is taken seriously in recent years. High- tech industries, for the purpose of productivity improvement, are unable to attend to every aspect of labor safety. Once the injury occurred, it will be a threat to the labor's life safety and their families. In the past, labor safety was mostly been discussed in technical levels, such as improving unsafe environment, preventing unsafe behavior etc. But the effects resulted from leadership, management, or cultural factors on safety cognition were rarely mentioned. This study investigates the influences of high- tech industries employee’s safety cognition from the aspects of safety leadership and safety management. Besides, safety culture is adopted as a mediating variable in order to clarify the relationships. The subjects of this study were sampled from the semiconductor manufacturing companies in Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone by convenience sampling. A total of 460 questionnaires were sent out and returned effective ones were 370. The results demonstrated that safety leadership, safety management, and safety culture have a significant effect on safety cognition. Safety leadership and safe management have a significant effect on safety culture. Safety culture had a complete mediating effect on both the relationship of safety leadership and safety cognition and the relationship of safety management and safety cognition. Furthermore, the special discoveries of this study are: 1. Although it presents affirmative opinion approximately that the promotion of safety performance may reach by way of reward,it actually is the lowest affirmation in the safety management dimension. 2. The leader's action-participation is unable to accounts the cognition for employees that directors put emphasis on safety. 3. The younger and less number of employee's company, the higher sense of safety leadership, safety management, safety culture and safety cognition of its employees also.