Date of Award
Summer 8-1-2020
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
College of Technology
Abstract
Worker Safety is an area of high focus. Costs and impacts associated with incidents of workplace injury or fatality can have powerful effects on the organization. Workplace leadership style studies have shown statistically significant relationships between leadership style and rates of OSHA incidence and severity. One such example is transformational leadership. Studies have been completed in various industries, including high hazard industries that confirm this positive relationship. Organized labor offers many benefits of value to the employment sector. Such benefits as higher wages and better workplace safety practices contribute to society in economic and health related ways, among others. Transformational leadership and subordinates safety have been studied in non-union settings. Prior to this study, no study had been conducted to explore if a relationship existed between the leaders’ management style of transformational leadership and incidents of safety in a workplace setting that utilized a unionized workforce. This study addressed that literature gap. Specifically, this study examined if a relationship existed between transformational leadership style and OSHA incidence and severity in a unionized high hazard public private partnership utility. The study consisted of an analysis of transformational leadership ratings of front line, non-union supervisors as rated by their union-member subordinates and OSHA incident and lost time or severity rates. The results of the study indicated that, contrary to the results of the previous non-union based studies, this study found no statistically significant relationship between transformational leadership management style and OSHA incidence and severity rates.
Recommended Citation
Schoff, Ronald D., "A Quantitative Study of Transformational Leadership and Safety Incidence in a Unionized Public Utility" (2020). All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 31.
https://scholars.indianastate.edu/etds/31
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