Leadership empowerment behaviour on safety officer and safety teamwork in manufacturing industry

Tong, David Yoon Kin; Rasiah, Devinaga; Tong, Xue Fa; Lai, Kim Piew

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2014.09.009

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“…There is no mediating effect when the relationship between independent and dependent variables remains statistically significant and with similar coefficient when the mediating variable enters the model. In examining the mediation effect, resampling statistical procedure of bootstrapping was conducted by allowing data to perform 2,000 bootstrap samples and ran the bias-corrected confidence intervals at 95% [ 39 , 40 ]. Sobel test was conducted to verify the mediation effect of social connectedness [ 41 ] and was calculated through a web-calculator developed by Preacher and Leonardelli [ 42 ].…”

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Modeling Age-Friendly Environment, Active Aging, and Social Connectedness in an Emerging Asian Economy

Lai

Lein

Lau

et al. 2016

Journal of Aging Research

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This paper empirically tested eight key features of WHO guidelines to age-friendly community by surveying 211 informal caregivers and 402 self-care adults (aged 45 to 85 and above) in Malaysia. We examined the associations of these eight features with active aging and social connectedness through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. A structural model with satisfactory goodness-of-fit indices (CMIN/df = 1.11, RMSEA = 0.02, NFI = 0.97, TLI = 1.00, CFI = 1.00, and GFI = 0.96) indicates that transportation and housing, community support and health services, and outdoor spaces and buildings are statistically significant in creating an age-friendly environment. We found a statistically significant positive relationship between an age-friendly environment and active aging. This relationship is mediated by social connectedness. The results indicate that built environments such as accessible public transportations and housing, affordable and accessible healthcare services, and elderly friendly outdoor spaces and buildings have to be put into place before social environment in building an age-friendly environment. Otherwise, the structural barriers would hinder social interactions for the aged. The removal of the environmental barriers and improved public transportation services provide short-term solutions to meet the varied and growing needs of the older population.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling Age-Friendly Environment, Active Aging, and Social Connectedness in an Emerging Asian Economy

Lai

Lein

Lau

et al. 2016

Journal of Aging Research

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“…An official letter was written from the research and technology transfer director office of Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Ethiopia, to the respective industries and employees to get the consent of the respondents. Primary data was collected using a close-ended questionnaire that contains the most workplace AoI's in the metal manufacturing sectors collected from the different kinds of literature (Australia, 2015;Liu et al, 2015;Tong, Rasiah, Tong, & Lai, 2015).…”

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Prevalence of occupational accident; and injuries and their associated factors in iron, steel and metal manufacturing industries in Addis Ababa

Berhan

2020

Cogent Engineering

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The purpose of the research is to investigate the prevalence of workplace accident/injuries (policymakers) and the associated factor in Iron, Steel and Metal Manufacturing Industries (ISMMI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. To achieve this objective, primary data using a questionnaire was collected from 446 production workers in 89 ISMMI. The major findings of the study showed that both availability and cultures of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) usage are found to be lower. The prevalence of workplace AoI in the metal manufacturing industries in Addis Ababa is found to be relatively very high as compared to previous studies. Employees have mostly faced AoI such as fracture, dislocation, abrasion, suffocation, burn and piercing in their workplace. Female workers are more likely to face cut AoI than their male counterparts. Moreover, employees who are working in medium and large size industries have more likely faced exhaustion, dislocation, sprain, fracture, and burn AoI than employees who are working in small size industries. The study concluded that workplace accident in ISMMI in Addis Ababa is very high and mostly caused by the absence of and poor culture on PPE usage that requires awareness creation and interventions from policymakers to improve the working environment.

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“…Integration of quality circles and improvement groups [53,66,75,[96][97][98][99] Empowerment [53,[97][98][99] Performance recognition [96,100,101] Level of employee participation in TQM events [51,66,102] Operational benefits…”

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Human Resource Abilities and Skills in TQM for Sustainable Enterprises

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Total quality management (TQM) is a lean manufacturing tool that focuses on ensuring the production of goods that meet design specifications and give customer satisfaction, both attractive benefits highly appreciated by managers. However, there are several factors involved in the success of TQM programs, many of which are cultural aspects associated with human resources (HR). This article presents a structural equation model that integrates three latent variables related to internal HR: “managerial commitment,” “employee integration,” and “training and education,” which are linked to the operational benefits of a manufacturing system. The variables are connected through six hypotheses that have been validated with information obtained from 398 responses of a questionnaire applied to manufacturing industry professionals. In addition, a sensitivity analysis was carried out to describe the probabilities of occurrence for the variables at low and high levels. The hypotheses were statistically validated with the partial least squared technique, where the results showed that human factors play an essential role in the success of TQM, since the direct, indirect, and total effects of managerial commitment, employee integration and training, and education processes on the benefits obtained from the implementation of TQM were statistically significant at 95% confidence.

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Leadership empowerment behaviour on safety officer and safety teamwork in manufacturing industry

Cited by 32 publications

References 58 publications

Modeling Age-Friendly Environment, Active Aging, and Social Connectedness in an Emerging Asian Economy

Modeling Age-Friendly Environment, Active Aging, and Social Connectedness in an Emerging Asian Economy

Prevalence of occupational accident; and injuries and their associated factors in iron, steel and metal manufacturing industries in Addis Ababa

Human Resource Abilities and Skills in TQM for Sustainable Enterprises

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