Abstract
Occupational pride, feelings of self-respect for one’s occupation, facilitates the intention to
implement safety actions while performing a job (Oya & Haga, 2016). We questioned whether
organizational justice guides safety actions with increasing occupational pride, and how strong affective
commitment to the organization enhances safety intention in comparison with occupational pride. We
administered a survey to 1800 workers from 4 organizations under the hypothetical Model and analyzed
by Structural Equation Modeling. Results were as follows: 1) Organizational justice had a stimulatory
effect on both occupational pride and organizational commitment. 2) The total effect of occupational
pride on safety attitudes, which was an antecedent for safety behavioral intentions, was large. In contrast,
the effect of organizational commitment was relatively small. The gap came from the difference in the
effects on the schedule-adherence factor in work motivation, i.e., occupational pride had an inhibitory
effect and affective commitment was relatively stimulatory. 3) Organizational justice and occupational
pride facilitated the subjective norm in workplace safety. These implied that measures of high levels of
organizational justice would affect workers’ attitudes and performance in occupational safety.
