An investigation of the relationship between organizational climate and professional drivers' driver behaviours

Safety Science

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1484-1489

  Öz, Bahar ^a   Özkan, Türker ^b   Lajunen, Timo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Driver behaviours; Organizational climate; Organizational culture; Professional drivers; Safety climate

Indexed keywords

DRIVER BEHAVIOUR; ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES; PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS; SAFETY CLIMATE;

ERRORS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER; DRIVER BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE; DRIVING ABILITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HOFSTEDE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE SCALE; HUMAN; JOB CHARACTERISTICS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; TRAFFIC SAFETY; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77956231119     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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