Source avec lien : International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics: JOSE, (Prépublication). 10.1080/10803548.2023.2265133
La présente étude visait à étendre la littérature sur le leadership en matière de sécurité dans le contexte d’organisations opérant dans des situations de crise en étudiant l’impact du leadership transformationnel spécifique à la sécurité sur les comportements extra-rôle des suiveurs par la médiation de l’accomplissement du contrat psychologique.
Objectives. The emergence of COVID-19 has drastically changed the safety outlook of how the work world is viewed by leaders and followers. In this backdrop, the current study aimed at extending the safety leadership literature in the context of organizations operating in crisis situations by investigating the impact of safety-specific transformational leadership on the followers’ extra-role behaviors through the mediation of psychological contract fulfillment. Methods. Using a time-lagged and multisource design, data were collected from 384 frontline rescue and healthcare workers dealing with COVID-19-related situations. Results. Results revealed that safety-specific transformational leadership behavior positively affects extra-role behaviors of frontline employees by enhancing their innovative work behavior, knowledge sharing behavior and organizational citizenship behavior. Also, psychological contract fulfillment plays a bridging role in translating the impact of safety-specific transformational leadership behavior on extra-role behaviors. Conclusion. The followers working in an unsafe context view the safety concern of their leader as a fulfillment of their unwritten expectations from their employers. Implications of these findings along with limitations and future research directions are also delineated.