Modeling attitudes and perceptions as predictors for changing safety margins during organizational change

Safety Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 531-541

  Lofquist, Eric Arne ^a   Greve, Arent ^b   Olsson, Ulf H ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

High Reliability Organizations; Latent variables; Leadership commitment; Safety climate; Strategic change

Indexed keywords

HIGH RELIABILITY ORGANIZATIONS; LATENT VARIABLE; LEADERSHIP COMMITMENT; SAFETY CLIMATE; STRATEGIC CHANGES;

AIR NAVIGATION; CLIMATE MODELS; MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO CHANGE; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE; EUROPE; LEADERSHIP; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 79151481126     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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