When and for whom organizational identification is more effective in eliciting safety voice: an empirical study from the construction industry perspective

Abstract

Safety voice (SV) is a form of voice in which employees express opinions or concerns about organizational safety. It plays an important role in preventing accidents and promoting safety performance. The purpose of this study is to reveal the emotional factors and boundary conditions behind employee engagement in SV, especially in the construction context. This study, therefore, investigated how organizational identification (OID) drove construction project participants’ SV using a three-way interaction model of perceived insider status (PIS) as an individual difference and safety climate (SC) as an organizational contextual difference. The proposed model was tested using a sample of 357 participants in different construction projects. The results showed that OID was positively correlated with SV. The interaction effect of OID and PIS on SV depended on SC, with PIS enhancing the identification–voice relationship at a low level of SC and weakening it at a high level of SC.

Keywords:

• safety voice
• organizational identification
• perceived insider status
• safety climate
• construction industry

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This study is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China [Project No. 72071201]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China [Project No. 2020ZDPYMS30]; Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province [KYCX21_2079].