The relations between both employees' and managers' perceptions of safety climate, as well as work related employee attitudes

The purpose of this research is to examine organizational and managerial nature of industrial accidents by explaining the relations between employees? and managers? perceptions of safety climate (SC), as well as work related employee attitudes such as organizational commitment (OC) and job satisfaction (JS) in shipbuilding sector.The research sample consists of 249 employees and managers from five shipyards, one in Kocaeli and four in Tuzla (İstanbul) and employed by shipyard owner or subcontractor.The research findings indicate no difference in the perception of SC, OC, and JS as a whole between employees and managers. However, when the dimensions of SC, OC, and JS are considered separately, the findings show some differences: employees feel more independent than managers to refuse to work if they feel the task is unsafe and perceive the likelihood of injuries less than that of managers (SC); employees care about the fate of the organization less than that of managers (OC); and employees do not think that their managers really care their ideas about the job as much as their managers do (JS). Further, SC, OC, and JS are positively correlated with each other and some elements of SC explain majority of the variance in the dependent variables of OC and JS.