Understanding Why and When Supervisor Bottom‐Line Mentality Inhibits Workplace Safety
基于社会信息加工理论，研究主管底线心态如何通过降低员工对主管安全支持的感知，进而抑制员工的安全行为，并发现员工的工作不安全感会加剧这一负面过程。
ABSTRACT Ensuring workplace safety behaviors along with remaining profitable are two essential considerations for leaders in today's competitive world. However, the literature is yet to understand whether leaders focusing solely on achieving financial bottom‐line (i.e., those who adopt a bottom‐line mentality (BLM); supervisor BLM) are effective in enhancing employee workplace safety behaviors. Accordingly, in the present research, we draw from social information processing theory to examine the link between supervisor BLM and workplace safety behaviors. We theorize that supervisor BLM is negatively related to employees' perceptions of supervisor support for safety and furthermore negatively related to employee workplace safety behaviors. We also explore how employee job insecurity exacerbates this mediating process. Results from two studies (Study 1, a multi‐wave study ( N = 222) and an experimental study ( N = 300)) provide empirical support for our hypothesized model. Implications of our findings and future research directions are discussed.