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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shen, Yuzhong
• Tuuli, Martin M.
• Xia, Bo
• Koh, Tas Yong
• Rowlinson, Steve

Titel

Toward a model for forming psychological safety climate in construction project management

Ist Teil von

• International journal of project management, 2015-01, Vol.33 (1), p.223-235

Ort / Verlag

Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The nature of construction projects and their delivery exposes participants to accidents and dangers. Safety climate serves as a frame of reference for employees to make sense of safety measures in the workplace and adapt their behaviors. Though safety climate research abounds, fewer efforts are made to investigate the formation of a safety climate. An effort to explore forming psychological safety climate, an operationalization of safety climate at the individual level, is an appropriate starting point. Taking the view that projects are social processes, this paper develops a conceptual framework of forming the psychological safety climate, and provides a preliminary validation. The model suggests that management can create the desired psychological safety climate by efforts from structural, perceptual, interactive, and cultural perspectives. Future empirical research can be built on the model to provide a more comprehensive and coherent picture of the determinants of safety climate. •We review safety climate research in construction.•We examine the contributors to the psychological safety climate in construction.•We propose a conceptual model of forming the psychological safety climate.•We provide a preliminary validation of the conceptual model.