On the Road Again – Using Rule-Oriented and Participative Leadership to Reduce Threats and Violence in the Construction Industry

Martin Grill

doi:10.16993/sjwop.179

On the Road Again – Using Rule-Oriented and Participative Leadership to Reduce Threats and Violence in the Construction Industry

Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Volume 7 (2022): Issue 1

By: Martin Grill

Open Access

|Dec 2022

Figures & Tables

Table 1

One-year prevalence of physical violence, threats of violence, feelings of being threatened, and conflicts pre- and post-intervention, and the results of χ²-tests comparing post- to pre- intervention prevalence.

	PRE-INTERVENTION				POST-INTERVENTION				χ2-TEST
	YES		NO		YES		NO		χ2	p
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	χ2	p
Physical violence	7	6.8	96	93.2	3	4.8	60	95.2	0.413	.520
Threats of violence	36	35.0	67	65.0	12	19.0	51	81.0	7.047	.008
Feelings of being threatened	44	42.7	59	57.3	15	23.8	48	76.2	9.188	.002
Conflicts	49	48.5	52	51.5	19	30.6	43	69.4	7.913	.005

Table 2

Mean values pre- and post-intervention, and the results of the independent sample t-test of the mean pre- and post-intervention.

	PRE-INTERVENTION (N = 90)		POST-INTERVENTION (N = 59)		INDEPENDENT SAMPLE T-TEST
	M	SD	M	SD	MEAN DIFF.	t	p
Coping	2.23	1.14	2.06	1.24	-0.17	0.87	.386

Table 3

The proportion of employees who reported threats and received support when reporting threats pre- and post-intervention, and the results of the χ2-test comparing post- to pre- intervention prevalence.