The mediating effect of job satisfaction on health and safety policy management and employee productivity in manufacturing firms
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DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.19(2).2021.09
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Article InfoVolume 19 2021, Issue #2, pp. 104-117
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The study investigated the mediating effect of job satisfaction on health and safety policy management and employee productivity in manufacturing firms in Nigeria. For the study, a quantitative analytical method was adopted, including a descriptive survey. To obtain data for the study, a questionnaire instrument was constructed and distributed among 950 sampled respondents in selected manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The descriptive statistics was deployed in the data analysis, while the multiple regression analysis was used to test the study hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. The mediating effect of job satisfaction on health and safety policy management and employee productivity relationship was confirmed using the Sobel test with the aid of MedGraph. The results showed that hazard prevention and control policy have a significant positive effect on employee productivity. Risk assessment policy have a significant positive effect on employee productivity. Also, job satisfaction has a significant positive mediating effect on the health and safety policy management and employee productivity relationship. Therefore, manufacturing firms should take appropriate measures to prevent and control hazards and provide effective risk assessments to improve health and safety policy management.
Acknowledgments
The authors express gratitude to anonymous reviewers, the journal editor and all the authors whose work were used in this study. The authors are grateful to the management of manufacturing firms included in the study for having given approval for the administration of the questionnaire instrument, and the survey respondents for providing their views on the issues raised in the questionnaire instrument on health and safety policy management (hazard prevention and control policy and risk assessment policy), employee productivity and job satisfaction.
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JEL Classification (Paper profile tab)I12, J24, J28
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References46
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Tables7
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Figures1
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- Figure 1. Standardize coefficients of the mediating effect
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- Table 1. Descriptive statistics of variables
- Table 2. Summary of normality test results
- Table 3. Homoscedasticity and multicollinearity test
- Table 4. Summary of exploratory factor analysis and reliability test results
- Table 5. The result of multiple regression analysis for hypothesis testing
- Table 6. Summary of regression results for the variables
- Table 7. Results of the Sobel test for the mediating effect
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