Promoting safety voice with safety-specific transformational leadership: The mediating role of two dimensions of trust.
Abstract
Although safety-specific transformational leadership is known to encourage employee safety voice behaviors, less is known about what makes this style of leadership effective. We tested a model that links safety-specific transformational leadership to safety voice through various dimensions of trust. Data from 150 supervisor-employee dyads from the United Kingdom oil industry supported our predictions that the effects of safety-specific transformational leadership are sequentially mediated by affect-based trust beliefs and disclosure trust intentions. Moreover, we found that reliance trust intentions moderated the effect of disclosure: employees' disclosure intentions mediated the effects of affect-based trust on safety voice behaviors only when employees' intention to rely on their leader was moderate to high. These findings suggest that leaders seeking to encourage safety voice behaviors should go beyond "good reason" arguments and develop affective bonds with their employees.
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Transformational leadership is the most studied leadership style in relation to the different bases of trust, with similar effects for both trust bases being found.
“The most studied leadership style in relation to the different bases of trust is transformational leadership, with similar effects for both trust bases being found (Chiang & Lin, 2016; Conchie et al., 2012; Zhu & Akhtar, 2014a; Zhu & Akhtar, 2014b).”
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- Authors
- Conchie, S. M., Taylor, P. J., & Donald, I. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- Venue
- Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
- Published
- 2012
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 105-115
- ISSN
- 1076-8998 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1307
- OpenAlex
- W2050771653
- Cited by
- 155
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 9.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2011-12-26)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University of Twente Research Information (publishedVersion)
- Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
- University of Twente Research Information (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Radiological and Ultrasound Technology › Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Keywords
- safety voice, affect-based trust, trust in leadership, safety climate, oil workers, supervisor-employee relationship, moderation
- MeSH terms
- Adult, United Kingdom, Humans, Leadership, Male, Middle Aged, Mining, Surveys and Questionnaires, Workplace, Safety Management, Trust, Young Adult
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