Casey Tristan W, Riseborough Karli M, Krauss Autumn D
Sentis, PO Box 303, Morningside, 4170 Queensland, Australia.
Sentis, PO Box 303, Morningside, 4170 Queensland, Australia.
Accid Anal Prev. 2015 May;78:173-184. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.03.010. Epub 2015 Mar 16.
Growing international trade and globalization are increasing the cultural diversity of the modern workforce, which often results in migrants working under the management of foreign leadership. This change in work arrangements has important implications for occupational health and safety, as migrant workers have been found to be at an increased risk of injuries compared to their domestic counterparts. While some explanations for this discrepancy have been proposed (e.g., job differences, safety knowledge, and communication difficulties), differences in injury involvement have been found to persist even when these contextual factors are controlled for. We argue that employees' national culture may explain further variance in their safety-related perceptions and safety compliance, and investigate this through comparing the survey responses of 562 Anglo and Southern Asian workers at a multinational oil and gas company. Using structural equation modeling, we firstly established partial measurement invariance of our measures across cultural groups. Estimation of the combined sample structural model revealed that supervisor production pressure was negatively related to willingness to report errors and supervisor support, but did not predict safety compliance behavior. Supervisor safety support was positively related to both willingness to report errors and safety compliance. Next, we uncovered evidence of cultural differences in the relationships between supervisor production pressure, supervisor safety support, and willingness to report errors; of note, among Southern Asian employees the negative relationship between supervisor production pressure and willingness to report errors was stronger, and for supervisor safety support, weaker as compared to the model estimated with Anglo employees. Implications of these findings for safety management in multicultural teams within the oil and gas industry are discussed.
日益增长的国际贸易和全球化正在增加现代劳动力的文化多样性，这常常导致移民在外国领导的管理下工作。这种工作安排的变化对职业健康与安全具有重要影响，因为与本国同行相比，移民工人受伤的风险更高。虽然已经提出了一些对这种差异的解释（例如，工作差异、安全知识和沟通困难），但即使在控制了这些背景因素之后，受伤情况的差异仍然存在。我们认为，员工的国家文化可能会进一步解释他们在安全相关认知和安全合规方面的差异，并通过比较一家跨国石油和天然气公司中562名盎格鲁和南亚员工的调查回复来对此进行调查。使用结构方程模型，我们首先建立了我们的测量在不同文化群体间的部分测量不变性。对合并样本结构模型的估计表明，主管的生产压力与报告错误的意愿和主管支持呈负相关，但不能预测安全合规行为。主管的安全支持与报告错误的意愿和安全合规均呈正相关。接下来，我们发现了主管生产压力、主管安全支持与报告错误意愿之间关系存在文化差异的证据；值得注意的是，在南亚员工中，主管生产压力与报告错误意愿之间的负相关更强，而对于主管安全支持，与用盎格鲁员工估计的模型相比则较弱。讨论了这些发现对石油和天然气行业多元文化团队安全管理的影响。
