Dissertation
The impact of community climate on safety performance outcomes of electric cooperatives
Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.), Drexel University
Jun 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00001564
Abstract
This research examined the direct relationship between community climate and safety incidents within electric cooperatives in the United States. Safety incidents were measured by day away restricted transferred rate or recordable incident rate data from 2007-2020, and data were provided by the Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange (Federated). The five-factor theory personality traits, gathered over a 6-year period by the World Well Being Project (WWBP) at the community-level, were used as measures of community climate to analyze their mediating effects on community size and safety incidents. Community openness to experience, community extraversion, and community size were found to have a significant relationship to safety incidents. Community agreeableness and community conscientiousness were not found to have a significant relationship to safety incidents. Additionally, community openness to experience, community extraversion, and community neuroticism mediated the relationship between community size to safety incidents. The theoretical contributions and managerial implications are addressed within the study.
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- Title
- The impact of community climate on safety performance outcomes of electric cooperatives
- Creators
- Lindsay Forepaugh
- Contributors
- Lauren D'Innocenzo (Advisor)Mark Stehr (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- ix, 110 pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Bennett S. LeBow College of Business; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 991020234114904721