2299: What Enables Supervisors to Serve and Enhance Subordinates’ Workplace Safety Behaviors? (10550)

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Swissotel: Montreux 1

Session Number: 2299
Paper Session
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/MK7KEv

Author(s)

YC

Yu-Ping Chen

John Molson School of Business, Concordia U., Canada
YH

Yu-Shan Hsu

John Molson School of Business, Concordia U., Canada
AP

Alexandra Joelle Panaccio

John Molson School of Business, Concordia U., Canada
HW

Hongli Wang

South China U. of Technology, China

Drawing on Ability-Motivation-Opportunity (AMO) framework and social learning theory, we hypothesized that supervisors are perceived to demonstrate the highest level of servant leadership by subordinates when their perspective taking, prosocial motivation, and perceived collaborative-based HR configuration are all high. Moreover, servant leadership plays an important channeling role that links the three-way interaction and subordinates’ safety behaviors. We tested the hypotheses in two studies. In Study 1, our sample of 167 supervisor-subordinate dyads across industries in Canada. In Study 2, we collected time-lagged data from 142 subordinates nested within 29 supervisors in a Chinese financial service company located in Southern China. Our results corroborated our hypotheses.

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