Adapting to Danger

Fitzpatrick, John S.

doi:10.1177/073088848000700201

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“…As a result, they may react quickly and adeptly to an unsafe situation and may generate solutions for improving the work situation. Fitzpatrick (1980) and Haas (1997) found evidence of this self-instituted coping system as they observed employees engaged in social interaction constructing processes to deal with problems and maintain a sense of control in their organizations.…”

Section: Employee Empowermentmentioning

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Information by Design: How Employee Perceptions of Organizational Design Relate to Injury Reporting

Lauver

Trank

2011

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

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Using survey methodology, this study examines employee perceptions of two key organizational design factors (employee empowerment and alignment of safety practices) and their relationship with nonreporting of employee injuries and near misses. Results show employee perceptions of alignment of safety practices are related to decreased levels of unreported near misses and unreported first aid injuries. However, perceptions of employee empowerment generated counterintuitive results, indicating empowerment is associated with increased levels of unreported near misses. Given the importance of reporting safety incidents, including near misses, to improving safety outcomes, the results reveal that organizational designs that empower employees with regard to safety may yield unintended-and undesirable-consequences.

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Section: Employee Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information by Design: How Employee Perceptions of Organizational Design Relate to Injury Reporting

Lauver

Trank

2011

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

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Reactions to physically dangerous work: A conceptual and empirical analysis

1989

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This study addressed some conceptual issues central to understanding human reactions to dangerous settings and empirically explored the meaning of physically dangerous work in three different occupational groups (street patrol officers, n=96; investigators, n=21; and clerical and support service workers, n=60) practicing in the same organizational setting (city police department). Objective hazards, estimated with occupational risk statistics, explained 56 per cent of the variation in experienced physical danger which, in turn, significantly heightened emotional exhaustion, dissatisfaction with pay, and disaffection from the employing organization, in the street patrol officer group only, perceived physical danger significantly correlated with task variety, task significance and feedback. The data are interpreted to mean that for street patrol officers, experienced physical danger adds a modicum of enrichment and significance to the work itself. One theme of the analysis is that potentially stigmatic features of the work can be transformed into socially meaningful illusions that enhance the personal dignity of the performer (cf. Hughes, 1958). However, the dominant theme is that physically dangerous work produces fear and related affective distress. Further research on this topic is recommended because of the affective and behavioral consequences of perceived physical danger and also because definitions and meanings of dangerous work are socially, politically and morally important.

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A Sociological Theory of Industrial Accidents

Dwyer

1991

Life and Death at Work

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Adapting to Danger

Cited by 58 publications

References 8 publications

Information by Design: How Employee Perceptions of Organizational Design Relate to Injury Reporting

Information by Design: How Employee Perceptions of Organizational Design Relate to Injury Reporting

Reactions to physically dangerous work: A conceptual and empirical analysis

A Sociological Theory of Industrial Accidents

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