Safety Behavior in the Logistics Sector: The Moderating Role of the Mindful Organization
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Empowering Leadership, Safety Behavior, Mindful OrganizingAbstract
In this study, the relationships among empowering leadership, safety behavior and mindful organization were examined. The research was conducted with personnel working in firms actively engaged in the logistics sector. The aim of the study was to determine the impact of leadership characteristics on safety behaviors and to assess the moderating role of mindful organization in this relationship. A survey method was used as the data collection tool, and the obtained data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The research findings did not support the moderating role of mindful organization. On the other hand, a positive and significant relationship was found between empowering leadership’s performance-based trust dimension and safety behavior. These results underscore the importance of performance-based trust in promoting safety behavior within organizations and indicate that the effects of the other investigated variables are limited.
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