How perceptions of experience-based analysis influence explanations of work accidents

Mbaye, Safiétou; Kouabenan, Dongo Rémi

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2013.09.004

Cited by 6 publications

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“…This echoes research on performance appraisals and grievances, and illustrates the actor-observer effect articulated by Heider (1958). Work in this area has since been developed by Mbaye and Kouabenan (2013), whose field study of two industrial companies found that both managers and employees made more internal than external attributions when they had positive perceptions of post-accident analyses.…”

Section: Health and Safetysupporting

confidence: 54%

Attribution theories in Human Resource Management research: a review and research agenda

Hewett

Shantz

Mundy

et al. 2017

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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There is no doubt that attribution theories have made their mark in social psychology and other related disciplines, but their application and extension to the field of HRs is in its infancy. Indeed, HR scholars have recently realized that understanding the process by which individuals explain the causes of behaviors and events provides insight into a host of HR-related issues. In our review of 65 papers, we identified three research streams with different foci-those that focused on HR system strength, on attributions that influence judgements and behaviors within functional HRM domains, and on the attributions employees make of the intent of HR practices. Notably, despite shared foundations, these three streams of literature rarely overlap. We summarize and provide theoretical and empirical directions for future research within each research area to help steer courses in these areas. Importantly, we also draw connections among the three streams to inspire future research to stretch the bounds of current theorizing on attributions in the field of HR.

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Section: Health and Safetysupporting

confidence: 54%

Attribution theories in Human Resource Management research: a review and research agenda

Hewett

Shantz

Mundy

et al. 2017

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

186

267

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“…This suggests the need to introduce safety systems into workplaces where managers and workers not only work together in designing safety practices, but also meet to reflect on the causes that have led to the work incident. Possibly this should happen on an external site with the mediation of an external safety specialist …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Workers’ Risk Tolerance and Occupational Injuries

Galizzi

Tempesti

2015

Risk Analysis

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This study explores the relationship between individuals' risk tolerance and occupational injuries. We analyze data from a national representative survey of U.S. workers that includes information about injuries, risk tolerance, cognitive and noncognitive attributes, and risky behaviors. We measure risk tolerance through questions regarding individuals' willingness to gamble on their lifetime income. We estimate zero-inflated count models to assess the role played by such measures on workers' recurrent injuries. We discuss some implications of our results for future research and occupational safety policies. Our results highlight the concurrent and changing role played by individual, work, and environmental factors in explaining recurrent incidents. They show that risk tolerance affects recurrent injuries, although not in the direction that proponents of the concept of proneness would expect. Our measure of risk aversion shows that individuals who are somewhat more risk tolerant have fewer recurrent injuries than those who are risk averse. But the estimated relationship is U-shaped, not monotonic and, therefore, not easy to predict. At the same time, we find that individuals' "revealed risk preferences"-specific risky behaviors-are related to higher injury probabilities. Demanding working conditions, measures of socioeconomic status, health, and safety problems experienced by workers during their youth remain among the most important factors explaining the phenomena of recurrent injuries. So our results contribute also to the important debate about the relationship between health and socioeconomic status.

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Burning and Electrocution Risk’s Evaluation and Prevention Procedures: A Case Study in a Production Work Shop

Mebarki

Bengharbi

Mokdad

et al. 2017

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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How perceptions of experience-based analysis influence explanations of work accidents

Cited by 6 publications

References 49 publications

Attribution theories in Human Resource Management research: a review and research agenda

Attribution theories in Human Resource Management research: a review and research agenda

Workers’ Risk Tolerance and Occupational Injuries

Burning and Electrocution Risk’s Evaluation and Prevention Procedures: A Case Study in a Production Work Shop

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