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Safety Culture and Collective Commitment in Organizational Context

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In nuclear power plants and process industry safety is the number one priority over profitability and productivity. In such high-risk environments where individuals work independently their decisions can lead to dangerous situations to coworkers, organizations or even to society. In many cases, a loose commitment to occupational role causes individual to perceive safety culture as something too much detailed which makes them to lose focus on what is important regarding the safety culture. In our view, this is a problem for collective safety culture to raise to a higher level. To understand organizations collective safety culture and safety consciousness it is important to analyze employees individually to see what are their internal feelings, understanding and aims. This paper presents a joint analysis of organization’s safety culture and commitment towards their organization by utilizing also Company Democracy Model (CDM).

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  1. University of Vaasa, Wolffintie 34, 65200, Vaasa, Finland

    Jarno Einolander, Jussi Kantola, Hannu Vanharanta & Evangelos Markopoulos

  2. Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Jussi Kantola & Hannu Vanharanta

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  2. University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Einolander, J., Kantola, J., Vanharanta, H., Markopoulos, E. (2018). Safety Culture and Collective Commitment in Organizational Context. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 594. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_15

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