The effect of supervisory leadership style on group level safety climate in the Australian construction industry

Queensland University of Technology Research Week International Conference, QUT Research Week 2005 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Lingard, Helen ^a   Blismas, Nick ^b   Wakefield, Ron ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health and safety; Leadership; Organisational climate; Policy; Training

Indexed keywords

GROUP LEVEL; HEALTH AND SAFETY; INTER-GROUP; LEADERSHIP; LEADERSHIP STYLE; LINE SUPERVISORS; MANAGEMENT POLICY; MULTI-LEVEL; MULTILEVEL MODEL; ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE; ORGANIZATIONAL SAFETY; POLICY STATEMENTS; SAFETY CLIMATE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SAFETY PRACTICES; SENIOR MANAGEMENT; SUB-UNITS; TOP MANAGEMENT; WORKGROUPS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

EID: 84859098560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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