Perceived Organizational Support as the Moderator Between Psychosocial Safety Climate and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour Among Nurses

Abstract

Background. Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC) refers to an organizational atmosphere that ischaracterized by mental wellbeing and security of workers. Literature suggests PSC fostersOrganizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) particularly when employees perceive high degree oforganizational support. Therefore, the present study aimed at empirically testing this propositionby investigating the moderating role of Perceived Organizational Support (POS) among nurses.Method. The sample included 86 male and 214 female nurses recruited from differentgovernment and private hospitals of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Psychosocial Safety ClimateScale (Hall et al., 2010), Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale (Lee & Allen, 2002), andSurvey of Perceived Organizational Support (Eisenberger et al., 1997) were used to measureconstructs of the present study.Results. PSC significantly and positively correlated with OCB and POS. PSC also had asignificant main effect (positive) on OCB, and the interaction of PSC and POS on OCB was alsosignificant, suggesting that this positive relationship between and OCB was moderated by POS.Conclusion. Our findings indicated that POS is an important organizational resource forenhancing the OCB in employees. High degree of organizational support to nurses can influencepositive effect of on their OCB.