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ORGANIZATIONAL SAFETY CULTURE: A KEY FACTOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
Organizational safety culture has been admittedly becoming a critical element of the issue affecting not only the well-being of employees but also their productivity. This paper will discuss the issue of organizational safety culture on productivity through analysis of some of its most important dimensions including management commitment to safety, safety communication and training, employee safety behaviour, and the psychosocial safety environment. The primary data was gathered through a structured questionnaire, using a quantitative research design, that comprised of studying the answers of employees working in selected organizations, and thematic questions on the indicators of productivity, and secondary data was utilized in this study. Statistic tools were used to test the formulated hypothesis that included descriptive analysis, correlation, and regression. The results confirm that there is a positive and substantial relationship between organizational safety culture and productivity with employee safety behaviour and management commitment as the best predictors. The paper concludes that it is possible to build a strong safety culture that helps to minimize disruptions at the workplace, increases employee involvement, and improves efficiency. The findings indicate strategic significance of safety culture as an engine of attainable organizational productivity
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