Research on the behavioral relationship between workers and management in coal mining enterprises in Mainland China

In order to understand the situation of science literacy among coal mining employees in relation to their knowledge of production safety in the coal mines in which they were employed, we launched an investigative survey, from December 2007 to June 2008. in the main coal producing areas and provinces of Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Sichuan, and Heilongjiang in Mainland China. In addition there was a research survey done in order to explore coal mine related factors that affect scientific literacy practitioners. This investigation was accomplished by a questionnaire and interview survey, attained by the multi-stage stratified probability sample This paper analyzes the behavioral relationship between the coal mine workers and managers with regards to the safety procedures employed in the coal mines. The awareness of production safety by the coal miners is a very important factor to affect the safety of the workers, as safety awareness is an integral part of scientific literacy not only among the staff, but also for managers as this is an important means of influence and control of employee´s unsafe behavior. Managers work motivation skills and capacity to determine management performance have an important impact on the safety of workers in coal mine production. This articles´ purpose was to utilize the survey data taken from workers and managers of state-owned coal mines in order to analyze the relationship between behavior and awareness. Firstly, using the factor analysis method to study the factor of 4 classes of 18 indicators which affect their sense of safety, along with four categories of indicators as regards mine worker safety awareness of the impact of different levels; different safety awareness level factors and the choice of the significant differences. Second, the 4 categories of indicators which were reflecting management control behavior were analyzed, Along with analyzing the different work abilities of managers in a variety of options on the control behav- - ior of the different analysis with the results showing that the different work ability of managers in the development of working methods, staff task allocation and coordination, can affect the relationship between managers and employees and that there are significant differences as a result. Third, the analysis and comparison of different awareness levels regarding the issue of unsafe behavior control, and the showing that both have significant difference results in the working environment, working methods, communication, incentive motivation and supervision. According to this study the relevant conclusions were obtained and recommendations were thusly made.