The Impact of Empowering Leadership on Safety Behavior Considering the Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing and the Safety Climate in the Employees of Rural Water and Sewerage Company of Guilan Province

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morad rezaie dizgah ¹ , Mohammad Taghipour ² , alireza dadashi jokandan ³ , mohsen Malaeinejhad ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
2 - Department of Industrial Engineering; Ooj Institute of Higher Education; Qazvin, Iran.
3 - Young Researchers and Elites Club, Talesh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Talesh, Iran.
4 - M.Sc. in Management, Department of Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.

Received: 2021-10-01 Accepted : 2021-11-10 Published : 2021-11-10

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing, Empowering Leadership, Safety behavior, Safety climate,

Abstract :

The main purpose of the present research is to explain the impact of empowering leadership on safety behavior considering the mediating role of knowledge sharing and safety climate in  the employees of Rural Water and Sewerage Company of Guilan province. Therefore, the main question of this research is: Does empowering leadership affect safety behavior considering the mediating role of knowledge sharing and safety climate of employees in Guilan Rural Water and SewerageCompany? The present research is descriptive-corelation study, in terms of data collection is a field study, and the data collection tool is questionnaire. The population of the study is 420 employees in Guilan Rural Water and Sewerage Company. The sample size (219 people) was determined using the Cochran formula. Six hypotheses were put forward in this study. In this research, simple random sampling method was used. The data were analyzed using SPSS22 and SMART PLS3 software. The results of the study showed that empowering leadership has an impact on the safety climate and knowledge sharing in Guilan Rural Water and Sewerage Company's employees. However, the empowering leadership did not affect the safety behavior of Guilan rural water and sewerage company's employees. Findings also showed that safety climate affects the safety behavior of Guilan rural water and sewerage company's employees. In addition, the findings indicate that empowering leadership through the safety climate and knowledge sharing has an impact on the safety behavior of Guilan Rural Water and Sewerage company's Employees.