Human Resource Management For Safety Climate

Define the Term ‘Safety Climate’

Discuss about the Human Resource Management for Safety Climate.

The overarching term “safety climate” is the concept that implies company should maintain a health and safety issue while involving a large number of employees at the workplace (Bradley et al. 2012). The success of a business organization is highly dependent on the performance of employees. Therefore, the business experts should provide a safe and secured environment at the workplace based on which employees can provide effective service process towards the business organization. In this particular case study, it has been observed that Vincenzo Soprano being the CEO of Sopranos Small goods are very much concerned about the safety issue of the employees. This particular organization has expanded their widespread wings in the realm of Australian market by providing effective small goods to the customers of various geographical boundaries. After staring their journey in the year 1920, the CEO of Vincenzo Soprano had a dream due to enhance the business process in Australian market by providing quality food products to the customers such as meat, cured using traditional Italian recipes. In order to enhance the entire process of business in the Australian market, Vincenzo Soprano has evaluated that the organization should maintain some safety climate at the workplace based on which the employees tend to feel secured and safe at the workplace.

As per the point of view of Dr. Philip Bigelow, “Safety climate holds great potential in improving a company’s health and safety performance and reducing workplace injury rates”. The organization should maintain health and safety act at the workplace strictly, so that both the employees and the employers can take an immediate legal step due to the negligence of health and security issue at the workplace. The major ways in which a business organization can maintain safety climate at the workplace imply:

• Providing safety training to the employees
• Establishment of safety committee at the workplace
• Presence of safety officer
• Maintaining employee relation at the workplace
• Delivering effective management attitudes on behalf of the organizational managers

The business organization like Sopranos would have to focus on those particular factors in order to maintain safety climate at the workplace. Providing an effective training to the employees is highly important for avoiding any kind of organizational issues. The business head like Vincenzo Soprano should invest a large amount of money in order to provide professional training to the employees. In addition, the organization should form a safety committee at the workplace who has to take the responsibility of handling any kind of safety related issues faced by the employees at the workplace. In addition, employees get the opportunity to share their problems regarding health issues at the workplace to the safety committee. The responsibility of that particular department is to look a special consideration about the health and safety issues of the employees. As a result, this particular committee intends to deal with the problems of every individual employee.

Explain how a Safety Climate can Improve Safety Behaviours of Employees

Brondino, Silva and Pasini (2012) stated that maintaining employee relation at the workplace is highly important for keeping up safety climate at the workplace. Employee at every step should be highly motivated so that the customers can receive a good service from the organization. People from various cultures and backgrounds are strongly associated within the business organization. Therefore, the employers have to show their equal respect and dignity to the employees of different cultural backgrounds. Unity among the team members and unanimous decision at the workplace regarding the business goal is highly important for maintaining safety climate within the business organization. Therefore, Vincenzo Soprano intends to maintain an effective interpersonal communication with the employees in order to know their challenges at the workplace.

The success of a business organization is highly dependent on the performance of employees. The employees can provide effective services to the customers only when the employees would get complete co-operation from the business managers. Providing safety climate to the business organization is highly important for employee motivation. Employees tend to maintain organizational behavior and culture only when they receive co-operation from the organizational managers and employers.

Professional training to the employees is highly important for maintaining organizational safety climate.  By receiving an effective professional training from an efficient trainer, the employees learn on how to maintain organizational cultures and discipline at the workplace. The relation between employers and employees become more effective after receiving that particular training (Kapp, 2012). Therefore, professional training makes an employee more skillful and competent towards reaching the business goal. As a result, internal environment of the organization remains suitable for maintaining effective work culture at the workplace.

In order to improve the organizational behavior the business organization has to maintain effective employee relation at the workplace. Participative leadership style can be implemented within the business organization with the help of which employees can share their opinion regarding the organizational goal. At the same time, business managers do not intend to impose their decision on the employees. Therefore, the employees tend to express their point of view with the managers. The business workers of Soprano has implemented democratic leadership style at the workplace with the help of which both the business managers and the employees can maintain an effective communication with the customers.

The implementation of safety climate within the business organization is highly dependent on the attitudes of the business managers. As per the organizational ethics and culture, a particular workplace has to maintain some of the relevant plans and policies for running their business successfully. Maintaining a safety climate at the workplace has been considered as one of the most important ethical considerations. Soprano being a small good company has to recruit a large number of employees at the workplace for providing effective service process. Around 250 workers are strongly associated with the business process of Soprano. Therefore, the management has to show a polite approach and outlook towards the employees regarding the health issues at the workplace.

Identify Five Recommendations that Sopranos should Implement to Improve the Safety Climate within the Organization

As per the case study, it has been observed that Vincenzo Soprano looks into the matter of serious consideration when any individual employee has to face any kind of accidents and death issues at the factory. The business managers intend to show a serious consideration on the family members of that particular employee who has to face a disastrous consequence. However, the CEO has decided to take an effective initiative of implementing some of the relevant acts and regulations at the workplace for maintaining safety climate at the workplace.  Health and safety act has been strictly followed at the workplace of Soprano. With the help of this particular regulation, employees can take any kind of legal initiative if they wish to lodge any complaint against the employers. The maintenance of safety climate at the workplace is highly important for any business organization for receiving effective behavior from the employees (Zohar & Polachek, 2014). It helps to motivate the employees towards organizational goal as well. Without the flawless effort of organization employees, a business organization can never be run well. In this particular case study, it has been observed that the CEO of Soprano, Vincenzo is very much concerned on maintaining the safety climate at the workplace.

As a business consultant, some of the major recommendation can be provided to the CEO of Sopranos in order to implement at the workplace. The recommendations are as follows:

Employees while working at the workplace have to face immense difficulties relating to their job. Therefore, the business managers have to maintain an effective employee relation at the workplace. If Vincenzo Soprano can maintain strong communication with the employees, the existing workers on the other hand, would like to share their problems to the CEO. As a result, the internal communication would be effective. Consequently, the employees would never feel de-motivated for reaching the organizational goal. However, this particular organization would successfully be able to flourish their wings in various geographical boundaries.

Vincenzo Soprano can maintain an effective interpersonal communication with every individual employee for collecting necessary feedback. Vincenzo would get the opportunity to share own opinion as well. While maintaining a face-to-face communication the CEO would be able to evaluate the employees’ response, be it positive or negative. On one hand, employees would be able to provide an effective feedback directly to the CEO regarding organizational issues. On the other hand, the employers would be able to take collective decision regarding the organizational success. As a result, the internal relation among the employees and the employers become stronger due to this initiative.

While working within the organization the employees have to go through a large number of risk factors inside the factories. While manufacturing products, employees have to face unexpected accidents. However, in order to reduce these kinds of risk factors, the business organization can focus on modern equipments rather than depending on the workforce. In addition, Vincenzo should focus on increasing the revenue growth as well so that this particular individual can invest sufficient capital for implementing modern equipments at the workplace. At the same time, Soprano should provide necessary benefits and facilities to the employees if they have to face any kind of health issue at the workplace.

As a business consultant it can be suggested that Soprano should use the advanced technology at the time of manufacturing the products. As a result, the entire manufacturing process would be conducted systematically. The employees would not have to go through the several risk factors. At the same time, the managers would get available products in limited time. Therefore, advancement of technology is highly needed for expanding the entire process of business in multinational countries. In order to operate the advanced technology properly, the organization can provide an effective professional training to the employees so that Soprano can maintain the safety climate at the workplace.

Employee satisfaction is highly important for maintaining organizational image and reputation. Therefore, in order to satisfy the employees and maintain a safety climate within the organization Soprano should collect repeated feedback from the customers with the help of which the business managers would be able to reform business strategy and policy in order to reach the business goal. However, it can be recommended that Soprano should collect employee feedback in order to fulfill the needs and demands of the employees.

Reference List:

Bradley, B. H., Postlethwaite, B. E., Klotz, A. C., Hamdani, M. R., & Brown, K. G. (2012). Reaping the benefits of task conflict in teams: the critical role of team psychological safety climate. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97(1), 151.

Brondino, M., Silva, S. A., & Pasini, M. (2012). Multilevel approach to organizational and group safety climate and safety performance: Co-workers as the missing link. Safety science, 50(9), 1847-1856.

Kapp, E. A. (2012). The influence of supervisor leadership practices and perceived group safety climate on employee safety performance. Safety science, 50(4), 1119-1124.

Zohar, D., & Polachek, T. (2014). Discourse-based intervention for modifying supervisory communication as leverage for safety climate and performance improvement: A randomized field study. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99(1), 113.