Räisänen, C; Rapp-Ricciardi, M; Grill, M and Larsman, P (2023) Is it possible to foster long-term construction-site safety leadership through behavioural training? In: Tutesigensi, A and Neilson, C J (eds.) Proceedings of 39th Annual ARCOM Conference, 4-6 September 2023, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Abstract
Despite the increasing popularity of organisational leadership training, context-specific longer-term training transfer remains under-researched. We examine how two safety-leadership behaviours - giving performance feedback and listening actively -were retained, applied, and transferred from the learning context to the construction-site workplace. Four to five months after the completion of a nine-week individualised behaviour-based safety-leadership training (IBST), carried out in Sweden, open-ended life-story, 90-minute interviews were carried out with seven site-manager participants and their respective seven foreman/woman. The findings suggest that long-term safety-leadership behaviours may be transferred to the workplace; however, contextual contingencies and exigencies, for example, participant characteristics and situated work-environment, proved of crucial importance for training transfer. To achieve effective safety-leadership training transfer that reinforces safe behaviour on construction sites, it would be wise to problematise the dynamics of participant motivations and situated construction-project factors.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | learning; safety behaviours; safety-leadership training; situated practice; training transfer |
| Index terms: | Sweden, manager, safety leadership, safety behaviour, motivation, dynamics, construction site, interview |
| Subjects: | work location, systems engineering, practitioner, data collection methods, Geography, health safety and environment, psychology, occupational health and safety management |
| Topics: | Site Management, Health and Safety, Geographical Context, Research Practice, Human Resources, Roles and Professions, Engineering Principles |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCE |
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