Attribution theory also offers an explanation of the different results found for the managers and shop floor employees: if management have taken greater ownership of the safety training programme, then they are more likely to make positive attributions to themselves about any changes that result from it - an example of a self-serving attribution. On the other hand, if the shop floor have little identification with the initiative, then they are unlikely to attribute any success to management and this will be reflected in their attitudes to management style, which would remain unmoved or reduce; this would be a fundamental attribution error (Kelley, 1973; Sherry, 1991; Kurtz et aL, 1997). This problem would be exacerbated in the context of the shop floor perceiving the training programme to be just one more management "scheme" and being unable to differentiate its importance from other initiatives or if they perceive that managers are not interested in encouraging the implementation of learning (Lorriman and Kenjo, 1994; Cole and Brown, 1996).