Psychosocial Safety Climate in Organization: An Overview of Theoretical and Empirical Development

Nor Hidayah Binti

doi:10.22610/jsds.v4i9.779

Abstract

Psychosocial safety climate (PSC) is a new aspect to be considered in organization in order to overcome work stress issues among employees. The critical study of PSC which build from the foundation of work of psychological safety and safety climate pioneered in 2010 by Maureen F. Dollard and Arnold B Bakker in Australia. The features of climate specifically expected to affect psychological health. New construct of PSC was defined as shared perception of organizational policies, practices and procedures to protect employeesâ€™ psychological safety and health. Previous studies stated that there are four main elements in PSC which are management commitment, management priority, management and employee participation involvement in stress prevention and organizational communication. It is believed that PSC could be a potential contributor in achieving organizationâ€™s aim for more positive psychological health environment among employees. Therefore, this paper aims to explicate the theoretical development of PSC and identify the impact on work stress among employees.

Highlights

Many attempted have been made in order to discuss the interaction between work characteristic with stress issue among employees
An extended research of Job-Demand Resource (JD-R) was construct a new model of Psychosocial safety climate (PSC) as an antecedent in the occurrence of work stress in organizational (Dollard & Bakker, 2010)
PSC was viewed as persecutor for work context including job demand and job resource (Idris, Dollard & Winefield, 2011) and in turn to predict the consequences of psychological health and engagement (Dollard & Bekker, 2010).As preventing work stress among employees become important issue, the status of psychology health to be favour by management should be examine in order to verify the balance apprehension between psychological health and productivity among employees (Dollard & McTernan, 2011)

Summary

Introduction

Many attempted have been made in order to discuss the interaction between work characteristic with stress issue among employees. The operation of PSC is believed to be influenced by senior management because they were authorized to control the policies in organization. In this model, PSC was viewed as persecutor for work context including job demand and job resource (Idris, Dollard & Winefield, 2011) and in turn to predict the consequences of psychological health and engagement (Dollard & Bekker, 2010).As preventing work stress among employees become important issue, the status of psychology health to be favour by management should be examine in order to verify the balance apprehension between psychological health and productivity among employees (Dollard & McTernan, 2011). Management commitment is believed to be the vital underlying mechanism in expecting employees’ psychology health and safety outcome

Literature Review

Empirical Studies on PSC

Conclusion