Assessment of the effects of supervisor behaviour, safety motivation and perceived job insecurity on underground miner’s safety citizenship behaviour

Abstract

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effect of mining supervisor behaviour, safety motivation and perceived job insecurity on Ghanaian underground miner’s safety citizenship behaviour. Design/methodology/approach The authors proposed a conceptual framework that tested supervisor behaviour as an independent variable, safety motivation as a mediator variable, perceived job insecurity as a moderator variable and safety citizenship behaviour as a dependent variable. The authors tested the hypothesized relationships using 351 valid responses collected through a structured questionnaire using hierarchical regression analysis. Findings Results revealed that both components of supervisor behaviour significantly influenced safety motivation and safety citizenship behaviour. Furthermore, safety motivation could mediate the relationships between both components of supervisor behaviour and safety citizenship behaviour. Also, perceived job insecurity failed to moderate the relationship between safety motivation and safety citizenship behaviour. Originality/value This current study is vital for managerial practices. The complex conceptual framework also contributes to offering different ways of understanding how supervisors’ behaviours can catalyze improvement or worsen safety outcomes.

Supportive supervisor behavior and helping behaviors in the hotel sector: assessing the mediating effect of employee engagement and moderating influence of perceived organizational obstruction

“…Hence, frontline employees appreciate carrying out unassigned tasks (Contreras et al, 2020 ). Consistent with SET (Cropanzano & Mitchell, 2005 ), employees benefiting from supervisory support display excellent citizenship behavior (Quansah et al, 2022 ). Also, when employees receive managers’ support and care, they respond by exhibiting high engagement (Saks, 2021 ).…”

“…Common method variance (CMV) affects self-reported data collection (Podsakoff et al, 2003 ; Quansah et al, 2022 ). Hence, we safeguarded respondents’ identities and alleviated concerns about the evaluation process to mitigate CMV.…”

“…A sample item includes “when I am experiencing difficulties, my manager sympathizes with me.” Cronbach Alpha (α) value was 0.945. Previous studies such as Teoh et al ( 2016 ) and Quansah et al ( 2022 ) used and validated the scale’s reliability by recording α values of 0.94 and 0.975, respectively. Response options ranged from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).…”

“…Dutton et al, 1997 ) opine that the survival of a business entity is heavily reliant on supervisors’ creativity, innovativeness, and intelligence. Therefore, a supervisor should support subordinates by providing emotional, instrumental, informational, and esteem support (Quansah et al, 2022 ). This act places supervisors in a position to engage in social exchanges with their workers.…”

The effect of job insecurity on employee silence: test an interactive model

“…Meanwhile, job insecurity has a differential impact on job performance through different dimensions of emotional labor (Ren et al, 2021). It is worth noting that other studies have analyzed the moderating effect of job insecurity, such as perceived job insecurity failed to moderate the relationship between safety motivation and safety citizenship behavior (Quansah et al, 2021). Therefore, the effect of job insecurity on different variables, especially the mechanism of action, needs to be further analyzed (Zhang et al, 2017).…”