title: Responsibility assignment at the workplace: a Finnish and Ghanaian perspective.
abstract: The study sought to explore management's responsibility in accident causation as perceived by Ghanaian and Finnish industrial workers. It was anticipated that the Ghanaian industrial workers would externalize accident causality more than their Finnish counterparts, and would assign only marginal responsibility to the management for industrial accidents. The predicted difference was based on the premise that the difference in these two cultures on the power-distance cultural dimensions would have an impact on their responsibility assignments. The results confirmed our expectation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Seth Ayim
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Gyekye
authors.forename: Simo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salminen
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D005869:Ghana; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D008297:Male; D012941:Social Responsibility; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*