An Investigation into the Influence Mechanism of Employee Initiative on Safety Production Behavior in Industrial Enterprises_Vol. 3 No. 3 (JBM 2026)_Journal of Business and Marketing (ISSN: 3005-5717)

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An Investigation into the Influence Mechanism of Employee Initiative on Safety Production Behavior in Industrial Enterprises

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jbm.202609312

Author(s)

Jingyuan Li*, Nan Yang

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School of Economics and Business Administration, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, Heilongjaing, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Taking the employees of industrial enterprises as the object of investigation, questionnaire survey method was adopted to collect the relevant information of ordinary employees and managers. After screening, based on 399 valid questionnaires, SPSS and Amos were used to analyze the relationship between employee initiative and production safety behavior. At the same time, the factors affecting production safety behavior are explored, and the mediating effect of employee safety awareness on employee initiative and employee safety production behavior is found, and the pressure perception factors in the environment are added to analyze. The results show that: employee initiative has a significant positive impact on work safety behavior; The mediating effect of employee's safety awareness on employee's initiative on safe production behavior is also significant; The perception of pressure can reduce the production of employees' safety behavior by influencing employees' initiative. The research results are conducive to exploring the influence mechanism of employee initiative on safety behavior from the cognitive level, constructing the theoretical framework of the influence mechanism of employee initiative on safety behavior, enriching the management theory of safety behavior, and providing a new perspective for future safety management practice.

Keywords

Initiative; Safe Production Behavior; Safety Awareness; Pressure Awareness

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