Highlights Safety Leadership influences both safety motivation and safety motivation. Safety knowledge and motivation mediates safety leadership and safety behavior. Effective safety leadership in hospitals indirectly leads to better safety behavior. Safety leadership consist of caring, controlling, and coaching dimensions. Self-efficacy theory sheds light on safety leadership and safety behavior.

    Abstract Introduction: This paper investigates the relationships among safety leadership, safety motivation, safety knowledge, and safety behavior in the setting of a tertiary hospital in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Method: Underpinned by the self-efficacy theory, we argue that high-quality safety leadership enhances nurses’ safety knowledge and motivation and subsequently, improves their safety behavior (safety compliance and safety participation). A total of 332 questionnaire responses were gathered and analyzed using SmartPLS Version 3.2.9, revealing the direct effect of safety leadership on both safety knowledge and safety motivation. Results: Safety knowledge and safety motivation were found to directly and significantly predict nurses’ safety behavior. Notably, safety knowledge and safety motivation were established as important mediators in the relationship between safety leadership and nurses’ safety compliance and participation. Practical Applications: The findings of this study offer key guidance for safety researchers and hospital practitioners in identifying mechanisms to enhance safety behavior among nurses.


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    Title :

    The influence of safety leadership on nurses’ safety behavior: The mediating role of safety knowledge and motivation



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    Publication date :

    2022-10-19


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English