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Zadow A, Loh MY, Dollard MF, Mathisen GE, Yantcheva B. Psychosocial safety climate as a predictor of work engagement, creativity, innovation, and work performance: A case study of software engineers. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1082283. [PMID: 37089726 PMCID: PMC10117909 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1082283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 04/09/2023] Open
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IntroductionCreativity is vital for competitive advantage within technological environments facing the fourth industrial revolution. However, existing research on creativity has rarely addressed how a climate beneficial for worker psychological health, a psychosocial safety climate (PSC), could additionally stimulate the growth of workplace creativity, innovation, and performance in digital environments.MethodTo examine how individually perceived PSC influences subsequent work engagement promoting higher levels of computer-based radical and incremental creativity, innovation, and work performance, employees in a software engineering firm (N = 29, 86 observations) completed a weekly questionnaire for 4 consecutive weeks.ResultsAt the between-person level PSC was positively related to average future weekly individual fluctuations of creativity (radical and incremental), work engagement, and job performance. Additionally weekly work engagement was related to future creativity (radical and incremental). Work engagement also mediated the between-person relationship between PSC and future creativity (both radical and incremental). PSC did not predict innovation.DiscussionThis study contributes to the theory on PSC, creativity, and work performance by elucidating the individual perceived PSC-creativity relationship and suggesting PSC systems as meaningful antecedents to digital work performance.
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Affiliation(s)
- Amy Zadow
- Psychosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory, Centre for Workplace Excellence, Justice and Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- *Correspondence: Amy Zadow
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- Psychosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory, Centre for Workplace Excellence, Justice and Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Psychosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory, Centre for Workplace Excellence, Justice and Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Psychosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory, Centre for Workplace Excellence, Justice and Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Kim KY, Messersmith JG, Eisenberger R. Social Distancing Initiatives and Perceived Organizational Support: It’s the Intended Beneficiary That Counts. GROUP & ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/10596011221129007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Leveraging data on organizational social distancing initiatives (SDIs) this paper examines the link between SDI implementation and perceived organizational support (POS). The paper discusses and tests the intended beneficiary heuristic to help explain why and when employment practices may induce POS. We suggest that SDIs, involving various ways to separate employees to keep them safe, have the important secondary benefit of increasing employees’ perception that the organization cares about their well-being and values their contributions. Using the intended beneficiary heuristic we argue that such favorable treatment as SDIs relates positively to POS most when employees attribute their implementation to the organization’s concern for the welfare of employees. Results of two studies, a cross-sectional study with 121 employees in the United States and a longitudinal study with 103 employees in South Korea, indicate that SDIs were positively associated with employees’ POS, which in turn improved their job satisfaction (Studies 1 and 2), affective organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior (Study 2). The results also show that these relationships were stronger when employees perceived SDIs to be implemented to protect their welfare rather than as a means of protecting the organization.
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Kim KY, Clark KD, Messersmith JG. High performance work systems and perceived organizational support: The contribution of human resource department's organizational embodiment. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/hrm.22142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Kyoung Yong Kim
- Department of Management and Operations, Villanova School of Business Villanova University Villanova Pennsylvania USA
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- Department of Management and Operations, Villanova School of Business Villanova University Villanova Pennsylvania USA
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- Department of Management, College of Business University of Nebraska‐Lincoln Lincoln Nebraska USA
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