Ricerc@Sapienza

The recent global financial crisis has resulted in heightened levels of employee job insecurity, as well as an increased reliance on a contingent workforce. The purpose of the current study was to examine the conjoint effects of these factors on employee safety-related outcomes. Using survey data from a sample of 1228 employees from a variety of different private and public organizations in Italy, we tested theoretically-derived competing vulnerability and immunity hypotheses regarding the interaction between contingent work and job insecurity.

Over 3 million work-related injuries and illnesses occur annually. This symposium presents five empirically, contextually, and methodologically diverse studies that provide insight on how to enact effective safety interventions given different national, industry, and organizational features. The session opens with empirical findings from a large scale study undertaken in hospitals in China and India, providing important evidence on the role of national and organizational labor practices in safety management.

Moral disengagement (MD) is the process by which individuals mitigate the consequences of their own violations of moral standards. Although MD is understood to be co-determined by culture norms, no study has yet explored the extent to which MD applied to safety at work (JS-MD) fosters safety violations (e.g. accident underreporting), nor the role of organizational culture as a predictor of JS-MD.