Psychosocial Safety Climate in the Malaysian Context: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

As a climate that represents organizational engagement, management commitment, organizational communication, and priority regarding employee psychological safety health, the psychosocial safety climate (PSC) is envisioned as existing in every firm. As a chose environment build for mental wellbeing inside the work environment, studies uncover that PSC is elucidated to numerous parts of mental wellbeing like burnout, depression, and anger. In Western literature, the topic of PSC has received more and more attention as a significant construct. However, in the Asian context, PSC has not been thoroughly examined before. This review's objective is to investigate PSC in the Malaysian context across various occupations. The reviewed articles were obtained from one main database, specifically Google Scholar. The search process made use of the keywords in the titles and abstracts, such as "psychosocial safety climate" and "psychosocial safety climate in Malaysia”. It resulted in 10 articles that satisfied the requirements. This review identified the main factors as work engagement, emotional demands, emotional exhaustion, job performance, job resources, counterproductive work behavior and job content. Numerous studies on PSC are needed in the future to expand its influence on work and health outcomes. The evidence currently available is limited.