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Transformational leadership, intrinsic motivation and trust: A moderated-mediated model of workplace safety

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>04/2013
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Issue number2
Volume18
Number of pages13
Pages (from-to)198-210
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Two studies examine the role of motivation and trust in the relationship between safety-specific transformational leadership and employees' safety behavior. Study 1 tested the prediction that intrinsic and identified regulation motivations mediate the relationship between safety-specific transformational leadership and employees' safety behaviors. Study 2 further explored this relationship by testing the prediction that the mediating role of intrinsic motivation is dependent on employees' level of trust in their leader. Survey data from the U.K. construction industry supported both predictions. However, the mediating role of intrinsic motivation was found only for challenge safety citizenship behaviors (i.e., voice) and not for affiliative safety citizenship behaviors (i.e., helping). These findings suggest that employees' intrinsic motivation is important to the effectiveness of leaders' efforts to promote some but not all forms of safety behavior.