Outputs (44)

Leading to achieve social change: An interview with Ruth Hunt, former Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall (2020)
Journal Article

In this interview Ruth Hunt, former CEO of the lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality charity Stonewall and now crossbench peer at the House of Lords, discusses her approach to leadership for social change. She considers the changing context of LGBT rig... Read More about Leading to achieve social change: An interview with Ruth Hunt, former Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall.

Safety climate factors in construction - A literature review (2020)
Journal Article

It is an established fact that a mature safety climate and a rich safety culture contribute to achieving a safe workplace. This paper aims to explore and to make explicit the existing safety climate assessment tools and dimensions and suggests the le... Read More about Safety climate factors in construction - A literature review.

Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation (2020)
Journal Article

Service-dominant logic maintains that value is created collaboratively through a process of resource integration. Knowledge-intensive business services, the context for this study, are heavily dependent on customer resources for the fulfilment of the... Read More about Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation.

Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective (2020)
Journal Article

This article contributes to the growing body of literature developed within the leadership-as-practice perspective, focusing on issues of learning and power. It draws on a co-constructed (auto)ethnographic account of an individual’s longitudinal expe... Read More about Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective.

High fatalities risk found in gulf construction (2019)
Journal Article

It is predicted that the construction industry will be growing in the future, and that could lead to an increase in risks in work safety and accidents. This paper presents the current status of occupational safety and health in the Gulf region by pro... Read More about High fatalities risk found in gulf construction.

Briefing: Status of occupational safety and health in GCC construction (2019)
Journal Article

The construction projects in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-member countries are peaking as the region is in the stage of improving its infrastructures. This briefing presents the current status of occupational safety and health in the region by prov... Read More about Briefing: Status of occupational safety and health in GCC construction.

Exploring log-normal distributions in nascent entrepreneurship outcomes: International comparisons and agent-based modelling (2019)
Thesis

Recently, Joo, Aguinis and Bradley (2017), using a novel distribution pitting technique, have found that the exponential tail distributions-- exponential and power law with an exponential cut-off -- and their generative mechanism – namely, incrementa... Read More about Exploring log-normal distributions in nascent entrepreneurship outcomes: International comparisons and agent-based modelling.

The Rise of Online Shopping: Could Servicescape Revive the High Street? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Against a background of rising online sales and the decline of traditional high street shopping, this study examines factors related to in-store 'atmosphere' and 'servicescape' that may encourage consumers to purchase in-store rather than online in t... Read More about The Rise of Online Shopping: Could Servicescape Revive the High Street?.

Perceptions on safety climate: A case study in the Omani construction industry (2018)
Journal Article

Generally, a mature safety climate and a rich safety culture contribute to achieving a safe workplace. The purpose of this paper is to examine the understanding of using safety climate and to make explicit some of the main elements that have a greate... Read More about Perceptions on safety climate: A case study in the Omani construction industry.

Briefing: Occupational safety and health regulations in Oman (2018)
Journal Article

Poor occupational safety and health (OS&H) results in an economic burden of 4% of the total world gross domestic product (GDP). Effective OS&H regulations and their implementation are one of the main factors in achieving an improved safety performanc... Read More about Briefing: Occupational safety and health regulations in Oman.

Factors that influence safety climate in construction in Oman (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The safety climate on a specific construction project refers to managers? and workers? shared perceptions of the adequacy of the safety and health programmes and the consistency between the organization?s espoused safety policies/procedures and the a... Read More about Factors that influence safety climate in construction in Oman.

Causes of construction accidents in Oman (2017)
Journal Article

Considering the costs associated with accidents in construction, a model identifying root causes of accidents is proposed for construction organisations in Oman. The model classifies the accidents in construction mainly arising from main four causes:... Read More about Causes of construction accidents in Oman.

Causes of accidents in highway construction projects in Oman (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Construction workers are three to four times more likely than workers in other sectors to die from accidents at work. Construction is one of the main industries in Oman providing jobs to 18% of the total population and contributing around 10% of the... Read More about Causes of accidents in highway construction projects in Oman.

University-industry relationships in developing countries: Opportunities and challenges in Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and India (2017)
Journal Article

This article is aimed at investigating the various opportunities as well as the challenges faced by National Systems of Higher Education in aligning themselves with the requirement of National and Regional Innovation Systems in developing countries.... Read More about University-industry relationships in developing countries: Opportunities and challenges in Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and India.

Briefing: Using ‘safety climate factors’ to improve construction safety (2017)
Journal Article

This briefing discusses the health and safety problems in the construction industry. The focus is on safety performance improvement by using ‘safety climate factors’. Construction organisations can assess their safety climate factors by using a safet... Read More about Briefing: Using ‘safety climate factors’ to improve construction safety.

Cost of accidents in construction in Oman (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this article, the ongoing and planned projects for financial year 2015-2016 in different sectors in Oman are presented. While specific focus is on the construction industry, the costs of accidents associated with projects in different sectors are... Read More about Cost of accidents in construction in Oman.

Briefing: Defining safety leadership in construction (2017)
Journal Article

This briefing explores the tenets of safety leadership within the construction environment. The scope of this briefing aims to define a universal definition of safety leadership with key components from literature review. Without a clear definition t... Read More about Briefing: Defining safety leadership in construction.

A review of construction safety, challenges and opportunities: Oman perspective (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Data from a number of industrialized countries show that construction workers are 3 to 4 times more likely than other workers to die from accidents at work. In the developing world, the risks associated with construction work may be 3 to 6 times grea... Read More about A review of construction safety, challenges and opportunities: Oman perspective.

Using safety climate as a tool for improvement of safety performance in construction organisations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Data from a number of industrialized countries show that construction workers are 3 to 4 times more likely than other workers to die from accidents at work. In the developing world, the risks associated with construction work may be 3 to 6 times grea... Read More about Using safety climate as a tool for improvement of safety performance in construction organisations.

Improving safety performance in construction using safety climate factors (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Data from a number of industrialized countries show that construction workers are 3 to 4 times more likely than other workers to die from accidents at work. In the developing world, the risks associated with construction work may be 3 to 6 times grea... Read More about Improving safety performance in construction using safety climate factors.