Does the Safety Leadership Style Encourage Safety Climate and Risk Perception in Perspective of Indonesian Safety Critical Organizations?
Nidya Ayu Arina, Ratri Amelia Aisyah, Muhammad Wildan Nurrahman Anjanarko, Luky Bagas Prakoso
Universitas Airlangga
Abstract
Managing risk perceptions of employees working at Safety Critical Organization (SCO) is important. One of the things that can be managed by the company is to assign a leader or agent who has the appropriate leadership style to reduce the level of stress to the risk of his subordinates so that a safe climate at work emerges. This study wants to see whether there is a relationship between transactional, transformational, and authentic leadership styles to risk perception through climate safety as an intervening variable in the sample of workers in the construction sector. Managerial implications on the results of this study are to manage risk perceptions and give rise to a safety culture in working with organizations of this type are expected to adopt a leadership style that is proven to be able to have the strongest influence on the safety climate and risk perception. the study was conducted on 238 construction workers in Surabaya Indonesia.
Keywords: Leadership Style, Risk Perception, Safety Climate, Safety Culture, Safety Critical Organization (SCO)
Topic: Human Resource Management