- Title
- Validation of the psychological contract of safety scale on construction sites
- Creator
- Newaz, Mohammad Tanvi; Davis, Peter; Jefferies, Marcus; Pillay, Manikam
- Relation
- 42nd AUBEA Conference 2018. 42nd AUBEA Conference: Educating Building Professionals for the Future in the Globalised World: Sustainability, Vol. 3 (Singapore 26-28 September, 2018) p. 28-37
- Publisher
- Curtin University
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Psychological Contract of Safety (PCS) is conceptualized as the belief of an individual with regards to mutual safety obligations inferred from implicit or explicit promises of the supervisor and worker. Although literature on psychological contracts is growing, the existence of psychological contract in relation to safety has not been established in construction. Viewing safety through the lens of the psychological contract and considering the influence of the supervisor on construction sites, this research seeks to identify psychological contract in the conversations of employees about safety by demonstrating reciprocity in relation to employer and employee safety obligations. The safety obligations identified from the Australian health sector were used to develop and validate a measure of psychological contract of safety (PCS) in construction. In order to validate PCS scale at construction sites, data were collected from a mega-construction project in Sydney, Australia. In addition to the existence of psychological contract, factor analyses identified two underlying aspects: employer and employee obligations. However, due to the discriminant validity issue, relational and transactional dimensions of two aspects of obligations could not be validated or confirmed. Internal consistency ratings using Cronbach's alpha found the components of the psychological contract of safety measure to be reliable. The paper presents a refined and validated psychological contract of safety measure that allows investigation of the positive and negative outcomes associated with fulfilment and breach of the psychological contract of safety in future research.
- Subject
- construction safety; psychological contact; scale valdation; supervisor; worker
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1402678
- Identifier
- uon:35052
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780987183132
- Language
- eng
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