How Does Social Exchange Theory, Perceived Organizational Support and Leader-Member Exchange Affect construction practitioners’ perception on construction safety? an asymmetric information approach

Abstract

In this chapter, we conducted a survey on various stakeholders' perceptions of Social Exchange Theory, Perceived Organizational Support and Exchange's impact on construction safety. Many safety & environmental officers consider favourable job conditions the most crucial factor and then social rewards and morality. As per engineers, surveyors, and managers, group safety climate is the most critical sub-criteria in construction safety enhancement. Favourable job conditions ranked second. However, frontline workers considered leader-member exchange a critical factor different from safety officers & environmental officers. Engineers, surveyors and managers considered the essential criteria was perceived organisational support. The most crucial sub-criteria of “Front-line Workers” is group safety climate, followed by “Loyalty and Compliance of specific social goals”.