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Nielsen, Karina, Daniels, Kevin 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8620-886X, Nayani, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8753-3322, Donaldson-Feilder, Emma and Lewis, Rachel
(2019)
Out of mind, out of sight? Leading distributed workers to ensure health and safety.
Work & Stress, 33 (2).
pp. 173-191.
ISSN 0267-8373
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Abstract
Current frameworks of leadership are based on face-to-face interaction. A growing number of workers work away from their main location of work; this makes it challenging for leaders to ensure the health and safety of distributed workers. In the present study, we explore the relationship between line managers’ health and safety leadership and distributed workers’ health and safety behaviours. We also explore the organisational procedures and practices that may enhance the impact of health and safety leadership. We included a broad range of distributed workers (in analyses, minimum N = 626) from 11 organisations. We found that health-and-safety-specific leadership was positively related to distributed workers’ self-rated health, safety compliance and safety proactivity. These relationships were augmented by distributed workers’ sense of being included in the workplace. Knowledge sharing among colleagues was associated with safety compliance when health-and-safety-specific leadership was low. Our results indicate that one way of addressing the challenges of distributed working may be through line managers putting health and safety on the agenda.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Work support by Institution for Occupational Health and Safety grant RC/6981 Special issue: Leading well: Leadership and employee safety and wellbeing Guest editors: Karina M. Nielsen and Toon W. Taris |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | health leadership,safety leadership,safety,distributed workers,leadership,health,wellbeing,well-being |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Employment Systems and Institutions |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2018 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2022 02:58 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68108 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02678373.2018.1509402 |
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