TITLE:
Multicultural Working Teams and Safety Awareness: How Effective Leadership Can Motivate Safety Behaviour
AUTHORS:
Marianne Starren
KEYWORDS:
Multiculturalism, Safety at the Workfloor, Leadership Style and Motivation
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.7,
July
7,
2016
ABSTRACT: This
empirical study focuses on the diversity of cultural values and leadership preferences
in multicultural working teams and how this interaction makes it difficult to
guarantee and motivate safety at the workfloor. It is often hypothesized that
when employees from different national identities have to work together in one
team, their different cultural backgrounds make a common mental state of safety
awareness very complex. In managing this diversity of cultural values, the role
of leadership style could be crucial. The results show that a cultural value as
uncertainty avoidance clearly has its influence on safety awareness and that
this outcome is mediated by the motivating leadership style.