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Räisänen, C, Rapp-Ricciardi, M, Grill, M and Larsman, P (2023) Is it Possible to Foster Long-Term Construction-Site Safety Leadership through Behavioural Training? . In: Tutesigensi, A and Neilson, C J (Eds.), Proceedings 39th Annual ARCOM Conference, 4-6 September 2023, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 314-323.
- Type: Conference Proceedings
- Keywords: learning, safety behaviours, safety-leadership training, situated practice, training transfer
- ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9955463-7-0
- URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/af06a23dbf05ee12aa5288425b5f2ffe.pdf
- Abstract:
Despite the increasing popularity of organisational leadership training, context-specific longer-term training transfer remains under-researched. We examine how two safety-leadership behaviours - giving performance feedback and listening actively -were retained, applied, and transferred from the learning context to the construction-site workplace. Four to five months after the completion of a nine-week individualised behaviour-based safety-leadership training (IBST), carried out in Sweden, open-ended life-story, 90-minute interviews were carried out with seven site-manager participants and their respective seven foreman/woman. The findings suggest that long-term safety-leadership behaviours may be transferred to the workplace; however, contextual contingencies and exigencies, for example, participant characteristics and situated work-environment, proved of crucial importance for training transfer. To achieve effective safety-leadership training transfer that reinforces safe behaviour on construction sites, it would be wise to problematise the dynamics of participant motivations and situated construction-project factors.