Helland, E., Christensen, M., Innstrand, S.T. et al. (2 more authors) (2021) Safety representatives’ job crafting in organizational interventions: driver, counselor, watchdog, or abstainer. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 6 (1). 6. ISSN 2002-2867
Abstract
The Nordic model and organizational research highlight the benefits of employee participation and collaboration between management and employees. Using job crafting theory, this paper studied the roles safety representatives craft for themselves in organizational interventions, the mental models that impact the roles they craft, and the possible consequences these roles have for intervention implementation. The research used a case study design to interview 15 safety representatives of 15 different departments at a university in Norway regarding their role in an organizational intervention. The thematic analysis identified five roles the safety representatives crafted for themselves: 1) Watchdogs safeguarding the work environment, 2) Watchdogs safeguarding the line managers’ implementation, 3) Counsellors to the line manager on how to implement the intervention activities, 4) Drivers who themselves implement the intervention activities, and 5) Abstainers who let the intervention occur without their involvement. The safety representatives’ mental models of their line manager, the work environment, their colleagues, and the intervention itself appeared to affect the roles they crafted. Finally, the different roles safety representatives crafted for themselves seemed to influence the intervention implementation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Keywords: | Context; job crafting; mental models; organizational intervention; safety representative; qualitative analysis |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2021 15:27 |
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2021 09:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Stockholm University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.16993/sjwop.137 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177534 |