Workplace Safety Contributes To Work Motivation

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Occupational Safety Contributes to Work Motivation Mohamad Abu Huzaifah bin Magbool Universiti Sains Malaysia Abstract Safety has gained its popularity in recent years in this country due to the awareness of its importance. However the cost of implementing safety has always been a major hindrance for its implementation. The objectives of this write–up is to explore the connection between occupational safety & work motivation. Some of the famous motivation theories such as need theory; safety theory such as Heinrich’s Dominos Theory and Behavioural Based Safety approach will be discussed and argued. Established relationship between safety and motivation and implementation of safety using behavioural based safety will be analysed further. This is hoped to open up the eyes of the employers to take up safety as their investments and not charging them as cost. Higher work motivation will definitely boost the production output which is the main concern of the management. Occupational Safety Contributes to Work Motivation Work motivation in a person determines the direction of his behaviour mainly to behave in functional ways which will enable the organisation to achieve its goals. Work motivation can be defined as the psychological forces within a person that determine the direction of that person’s behaviour in an organization, effort level, and persistence in the face of obstacles. (R. Kanfer, 1990) In this discussion, only the extrinsic motivation will be discussed and the occupational safety being the variable to influence the motivation is considered an external factor. Why do we need motivated employees? The answer is survival (Smith, 1994). Motivated employees are essential in this changing work environment. Motivated employees help organizations survive. If an employee is motivated, he or she will behave in certain ways which will benefit the

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