Research On The Impact Of Employees' Trust In Organizational Safety On Their Safety Participation

Grassroots employees are the direct participants of production activities and the important force for their organization to improve the status and level of safety work.Researches have studied the influencing factors of employees' safety participation behavior from many aspects,but most of them focus on the individual level of employees,or the influence of managers and organizational behaviors on employees' safety behaviors.Few studies have explored the mechanism of organizational behavior affecting employees' safety participation behavior from a psychological perspective.Meanwhile,most of the existing research on employees' trust in organization is conducted from the perspective of non-safety work.Therefore,it is very necessary to analyze the mechanism of employees' trust in organizational safety and its impact on employee safety participation behavior and then help organizations to improve employees' trust in organizational safety to promote employees' safety participation behavior from the psychological perspective of grassroots employees.First of all,this study defines the concept of employees' trust in organizational safety and determines its factor structure.Namely,employees' trust in organizational safety includes three dimensions: employees' trust in organizational safety institution(ETSI),employees' trust in organizational safety equipment(ETSE)and employees' trust in organizational safety management practice(ETSM).Secondly,on the basis of reviewing the existing literature,this study proposed the relationship hypothesis and conceptual model of the impact of employees' trust in organizational safety by combining Trust Theory,Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory,etc.,and analysed the influence mechanism of employees' trust in organizational safety on their safety participation behavior.Thirdly,this study designed employees' trust in organizational safety scale,employees' safety participation behavior scale,employees' psychological safety scale and employees' sense of belonging scale,and then revised items and formed a formal survey questionnaire based on the results of pre-test and prestudy.Fourthly,after the formal survey,questionnaires were collected and screened,SPSS19.0,Lisrel8.7 and Mplus7.0 software were used to analyze the data of 716 valid questionnaires to carry out the empirical test of the model.Finally,this study proposed management enlightenment from the perspective of employees' trust in organizational safety to enhance employees' safety participation behavior based on the results.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:(I)ETSI has a direct negative impact on employees' proactive safety behavior,ETSM has a direct positive impact on employees' safety participation behavior,while the positive impact of ETSI on employees' proactive safety behavior is not significant.(II)Psychological safety can mediate the influence of ETSE and ETSM on employees' proactive safety behavior.However,psychological safety has no significant mediating effect not only on the influence of ETSI on employees' proactive safety behavior,but also on the influence of employees' trust in organizational safety on employees' safety prosocial behavior.(III)Sense of belonging can mediate the impact of ETSM on employee's safety participation behavior.(IV)The chain double mediating variables composed of psychological safety and sense of belonging can mediate the influence of ETSE and ETSM on employees' safety participation behavior safety participation behavior safety participation behavior,but the mediating effect of ETSI on employees' safety participation behavior is not significant.