Thesis:

Investigating the Relationship Between Dimensions of Manager's Emotional Presence and Safety Behaviors with the Mediating Role of Employee Work Engagement

Safety is a vital issue that directly affects people's lives and the economies of countries, and it is essential to prevent work-related accidents and occupational diseases. In the field of safety, there are some terms such as behavior, safety, safety climate, and safety performance, which are closely related concepts. Safety behavior is a specific type of job behavior that occurs from an individual and improves the level of safety and health of employees, customers, the general public, and the environment. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of the manager's emotional presence on safety behaviors with the role of mediating work participation (the case study of employees of the Jovin Agricultural and Industrial Company). The data collection tool is a questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire has been confirmed in terms of content and reliability for the entire questionnaire is0.79. Since it is greater than 0.7, the reliability of the questionnaires was confirmed. The above research method is applied and descriptive and survey in terms of collecting data. The statistical population of the study includes all employees of the Jovin Agricultural and Industrial Company. The total number of employees in 1403 is 220 people. The sample size was estimated based on convenience sampling, which was considered a statistical sample of 153 people based on the collection of 153 questionnaires. The convenience sampling method was used for sampling. According to the findings from structural equation modeling and model fit indices, the results of the study indicate that emotional presence Leader negativity has a negative and significant effect on employee safety behaviors and safety engagement through employee work engagement.

Keywords: Safety engagement, employees, safety