ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the research from many disciplines that lies behind the Eight Beliefs of Relationship Centered Leadership and validate the importance of human relationships to the success of the business. It discusses the groundwork for adopting a relationship-centered approach to leadership with a focus on safety performance. Relationship is a biological and psychological phenomenon that binds people together for survival. It is also about power. The importance of relationship to human and organizational development continues to emerge in the writings of significant thought leaders. Abraham Maslow is considered the founder of Humanistic psychology. This discipline plays the largest role in the evolution of these eight beliefs. Cognitive psychology has led us to think of ourselves as individuals acting from individual mental models. It studies what is happening within the mind while behaviorism is interested in external behaviors. Social psychology is about understanding why individuals behave the way they do in groups.
