A CROSS-CULTURAL VIEW OF THE SAFETY CULTURE:CHALLENGS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL OIL AND GAS COMPANY
Continued globalization is raising the level of diversity within the global oil and gas industry organizations as well as the likelihood that leaders will manage those from varying national cultures. The paper attempts to compare cross-cultural differences of organizational factors on safety culture and identifies the relationship between leaders and employees (i.e., from the same or different national cultures) that impacts a variety of variables including perceived influence employees attitudes and behavior in relation to an organizations ongoing health and safety performance. The paper reviews published literature on cross-cultural differences in attitudes, perceptions and beliefs regarding safety and presents details of some studies examining the safety climate, and risk-taking behavior, relationship between workforce members of a multi-national company organization. This paper puts forward some suggestions for multi-national organizations to work out the safety culture: the first of these is to respect cultural differences and carrying out localization management,meanwhile accelerating countries culture hybrid and taking flexible management methods to construct harmonious oil-land relationship .then to raise the level of cross-cultural management well and build up cross-cultural training systems for the workers.
Safety culture Multi-nationd orgonions cross-cuhurd differences
Wei Shen Haikuan Zhang Xuehui Wu Shanyun Li
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and the College of Chemical Engineering,China Universit China National Oil and Gas Exploration &Development Corporation,Beijing,100034,China Department of English Language North China Electric Power University Beijing,102206,China China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Corporation Beijing,China
国际会议
The 3rd World Conference on Safety of Oil and Gas Industry(第三届世界石油天然气工业安全会议 WCOGI 2010)
北京
英文
60-66
2010-09-27（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）