NDLI: Safety Culture, Moral Disengagement, and Accident Underreporting

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Author	Petitta, Laura Probst, Tahira M. Barbaranelli, Claudio
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	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. The current study seeks to address this gap in the literature by examining individual- (MD) and organizational-level (culture) factors that explain why employees fail to report workplace accidents. We tested a latent variable structural model positing organizational culture typologies (autocratic, bureaucratic, clan-patronage, technocratic, and cooperative) as predictors of JS-MD, which in turn is expected to mediate the relationship with accident underreporting. Using data from 1033 employees in 28 Italian organizations, findings suggest that bureaucratic safety culture was related to lower levels of JS-MD, whereas technocratic safety culture was related to greater JS-MD. In turn, JS-MD positively predicted employee accident underreporting and fully mediated the relationship between culture and underreporting. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed in light of the increasing focus on underreporting as well as the adverse individual and organizational consequences of failing to report workplace accidents.
Starting Page	489
Ending Page	504
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01674544
Journal	Journal of Business Ethics
Volume Number	141
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15730697
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-05-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Accident underreporting Moral disengagement Organizational safety culture Ethics Business and Management Management Business Ethics Quality of Life Research
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Business and International Management Law Economics and Econometrics

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