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Exploring the Antecedents of Safety Performance for Malaysian Construction Industry: A Conceptual Framework

American Journal of Trade and Policy

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Title Exploring the Antecedents of Safety Performance for Malaysian Construction Industry: A Conceptual Framework
 
Creator Chowdhury, Mohammad Fazley Hossain; Department of Human Resource Development, Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, MALAYSIA
Ahmad, Rusli bin; Professor, Department of Human Resource Development, Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, MALAYSIA
 
Subject Malaysian construction industry, safety leadership behaviors, safety climate, safety performance
 
Description This conceptual paper intends to present as a proposition of a framework to understand the antecedents of safety performance behaviors.  The elements of performance which refer to the tangible behaviors exhibited by individuals at work, safety participation and safety compliance, are crucial in maintaining safe workplace for construction industry. This article illustrates potential antecedents in determining safety performance behaviors as effect of safety leadership attributes and safety climate components based on the Wu et al. (2008) model and current literature in this field. The article contributes to a better understanding of safety situation in the construction industry through the relationships among safety leadership behaviors, safety climate components and safety performance behaviors. This paper ends with a suggestion of the conceptual framework to study the antecedents of safety performance in the context of Malaysian construction industries. 
 
Publisher Asian Business Consortium
 
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Date 2018-04-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.abc.us.org/index.php/ajtp/article/view/1074
10.18034/ajtp.v5i2.1074
 
Source American Journal of Trade and Policy; Vol 5, No 2 (2018): 14th Issue; 103-110
2313-4755
2313-4747
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.abc.us.org/index.php/ajtp/article/view/1074/942
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Mohammad Fazley Hossain Chowdhury, Rusli bin Ahmad
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