Relationship between Workers’ Attitude to Safety Management Activities and Voluntary Motivation : Based on the Theory on Intrinsic Motivation

Abstract

Today, various safety management activities are being implemented in high-risk organizations. However drop in member’s motivation because of activity mannerism is also a concern. In psychology, there is a theory that intrinsic motivation is increased through internal specifics and suitable gap in each aspect of emotion, cognition, and ability for the object. In this paper, to construct a method to maintain motivation for safety management activities, we report 1) distance quantification with each worker’s internal, specific, and safety management activities and 2) the identification of suitable gap between each worker’s internal specific and safety management activities. First, we investigated 70 workers from the fields of rail and plant, and plotted each worker’s attitude from the three viewpoints stated above for each safety management activity in a space comprised of three axes, applying the Scheffe method to data provided. Furthermore, we equally quantified the degree of the motivation for each safety management activity. Secondly, we positioned a plot in the three-dimensional space of each safety management activities constructed for every worker in a scale of 0-1 on every axis of emotion, cognition, and ability. The results shows that in the above-mentioned three-dimensional space of each safety management activities, the plots with highest motivation was concentrated in a scale of 0.2-0.4 on the axes of cognition and ability. On the other hand, the higher the motivation was, the nearer the plots were on the axis of emotion.