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IX. International Scientific Conference on Business Administration, Çanakkale, Turkey, 16 - 17 May 2024, pp.118, (Summary Text)
Cognitive failures generally defined as exhibition of failures and mistakes made in thoughts and actions by individuals under normal circumstances (Hsu et al., 2021: 155). Cognitive failures are conceptualized as momentary lapses in memory, perception, and/or action that result in mistakes or errors in daily life of individuals. These experiences as examples of someone to walk into a room and forget why he or she went there or for someone to meet another person and immediately forget their name. (Sutin et al., 2020: 1). Cognitive failures which considered as mistakes and errors may have led to adverse consequences in everyday life that also be transformed into accidents and even the cause of mutilating injuries or deaths (Mirza et al., 2021: 61). In literature, it is suggested that cognitive failures negatively affect the working environment such as work performance and result in adverse outcomes such as workplace accidents (Kumareswaran et al., 2023: 16). However, it is possible to express that there is evidence that cognitive failures are linked to several risky behaviors, such as driving without wearing a safety belt, gambling addiction, and substance abuse and unsafe behaviors (Kondracki et al., 2023: 267). Therefore, it can be inferred that cognitive failures related to the safety behaviors which has a crucial importance on employees’ well-being. In addition, there is considerable evidence that positive and negative affect may have impact cognitive failures. For example, while negative affect has an adverse effect on cognitive performance, positive affect reduces the cognitive failures (Pupillo et al., 2021: 186).
Safety behaviors refer to the core activities that individuals need to perform to maintain workplace safety, and safety participation in organizational processes (Martínez-Córcoles et al., 2011: 1119). Today, it is important to determine the preventive components or identification of factors that contribute to the promotion of health and safety behaviors (Fugas et al., 2012: 469). Among the predictors of safety behaviors, individual dimension is considered as one of the key factors that lead employees to behave in a safe or unsafe manner (Prati and Pietrantoni, 2012: 406). In other words, it is expected that individual personality, attitudes, affect and beliefs can influence an employee to behave safely or unsafely (Henning et al., 2009: 338). For example, it is indicated that employees who have positive affect they tend to have fewer injuries and accidents, whereas employees with negative affect they are more susceptible to accidents and injuries (Buck, 2011: 44). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate some of the antecedents of the safety behaviors of blue-collar workers which are labeled as cognitive failures, positive and negative affect and propensity to take risks. For the purpose of research, survey method has been used for data collection from 145 employees who work in manufacturing enterprises in Çanakkale. In this respect, data obtained from employees have been evaluated by the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling.