Exam 10: Motivation and Safety Management Systems

Setting and communicating high expectations for safe performance of work tasks is associated with what dimension of transformational leadership?

What equation defines safety performance?

According to the reinforcement theory of safety, what do organizations need to do to improve poor safety behaviour?

Provide examples of extrinsically and intrinsically motivated safety behaviours.

Which of the following is a dimension for characterizing behavioural consequences?

Which of the following describes the consequences of safe behaviour as encouraged by behaviour-based safety programs?

Define and give an example of engineering interventions, administrative interventions, and behavioural interventions. Which intervention is most effective?

Controlled motivation is where an employee is acting on their free will.

Dave works on an oil rig. He tries to follow the safety protocols on the rig as much as possible because he knows he would feel terrible if a coworker were injured due to something stupid that Dave did or forgot to do. What type of extrinsic motivation is represented in this example?

Safety compliance refers to employee behaviours that go beyond safety participation.

What goal-setting technique explained why a larger proportion of one group of university staff members attended a health and safety training session, compared to the lower attendance seen in a second group of staff members?

When planning behaviour based safety programs that include incentives, what do planners need to ensure?

Which type of extrinsic motivation from her supervisor prompts Soni to always wear her safety glasses at work?

What can organizations do to create a work environment that motivates employees to work safely?

Explain the concept that the multiplicative model of safety performance is noncompensatory and explain why this is important to understand within the context of training evaluations.

Behavioural interventions modify workplace procedures, policies, and exposure to hazards in the workplace.

A group of friends are studying for a safety certification. They have each made a goal to help keep them on track. All else equal, who is most likely to achieve his goal?

Describe the four stages of the Plan-Do-Check-Act continuous improvement model and how each contributes to the organization's occupational health and safety management system. Discuss how training can help to reduce the risk of workplace violence for isolated workers and use instructional systems design to develop a program for one of the above groups.

Eli is an entrepreneur who turned a small contracting company into a substantial property development operation. As his company has grown, he has realized safety needs to be integrated into all areas of company operations using interactive set of organizational approaches and programs. He is working with his management team and employees to develop and implement such a program. Which of the following are they implementing?

Brenda recently started a new job wherein she is responsible for supporting the implementation of a leadership development program. Brenda is eager to help her company and is excited at the opportunity to improve her company's performance. Brenda requests a meeting with her boss to go over the goals and objectives that she is to achieve over the next year. Brenda's boss replies to her questions with "your goal is to make it happen." Brenda leaves the meeting feeling uncertain and overwhelmed about what exactly she is to accomplish. According to the goal-setting theory, what should Brenda's boss have done to ensure she stays motivated?