Management must be actively involved to prevent passive, resistant, counterproductive employee behavior. Employees must be persuaded, rewarded, punished, controlled so prevent them from being indolent, slothful, and just plain lazy. Because employees lack ambition, dislike responsibility, and prefer to be led, management's task is to prod employees along. Workers are not passive and lazy by nature, but have become so due to experience and socialization in organizations. When motivated they are capable of self-directed work behavior and decision making.
Employees seek safety, job security, responsibility, and recognition.
They want to develop a high degree of pride in the work they accomplish. Management's challenge is to provide employees with the means to recognize their potential, and work at the highest possible level. Discuss the reasons supervisors are considered by many to be most important in making sure the safety management system works. Because safety is critical to both the welfare of the employee and the company, only a tough caring leadership style, effectively adopted by management, will benefit the company safety and health culture in the long term. Well, it's about time we get to the module quiz.