Contributions to the development of an evaluation model of the organizational culture of food safety
Contributions to the development of an evaluation model of the organizational culture of food safety
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Objective: This article has as the main purpose to make known the results collected during a research study focused on the development of a model aiming at the evaluation of organizational culture of food safety, taking into account the relative importance of potential indicators/metrics that may be suitable to assess it.
Project/methodology/approach: Metrics and indicators potentially suitable to assess the culture towards food safety were identified through bibliographic review. In addition, audit reports were consulted and contacts within the area of the food sector were gathered. The identified metrics/indicators were clustered considering the model proposed by the paper published by GFSI “Food Safety Culture”. The indicators/metrics identified were evaluated through two online surveys, where the respondents were first asked to assess their importance (classification according to an importance 5-point Likert scale (1- not important,…, 5-extremely important)), and later the respondents were asked to identify in which sub-dimensions the metrics indicated should be included, taking into account each proposed dimension (survey still in progress). Later, statistical tests were performed to assess the normality of the variables (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test) and their statistical relevance according to several grouping variables (Kruskal-Wallis test). These statistical tests were developed in the IBM SPSS v.26 software program. Afterwards, a preliminary structural equations model was developed using the AMOS Software program.
Conclusions: The results show different perceptions of experts in the food field, it was possible to conclude several aspects regarding the importance of each dimension and its impact on the evaluation
of the food safety culture in an organization. Comparing the results obtained from the respondents and the SEM model the main conclusions were that the dimension with the highest importance score was the DIM2 “People”, for respondents and DIM1 “Mission and Vison” by the analysis with Structural equation model. It was also possible to determine the most important or relevant metrics for each dimension. In this way for some dimensions the metrics coincided between respondents and the model, but for others the results where different. It was also possible to conclude the different impacts of the dimensions in the level of food safety culture, through direct and indirect paths (mediating analysis).
Research limitations/implications: The data used in this research was gathered in 2019 so, a more recent data collection should be carried out in order to ascertain at which extent these conclusions are valid. Also, it will be necessary explain the remain 69% of variables not considered in this study that affects the level of food safety culture.
Practical implications: These results will be adopted to develop an improved, more reliable and rigorous model in the future. This work will have an impact on academia (the proposal to evaluate the culture of food safety) and on companies (the evaluation of the commitment to the culture of food safety).
Originality/value: Currently, there are scarce instruments/tools that allow the evaluation of the Food Safety culture, both in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. The reported results will support the development of a new proposal to evaluate the commitment of the Food Safety Culture that, in the final analysis, will indicate to companies an optimized path to reach a higher level of maturity (within this area).
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Food Safety Culture; Food Safety; Metrics; Evaluation Model; SEM model.
