Psychosocial Safety Climate
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2015
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Zadow, A.
Dollard, M.F.
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Clarke, S.
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Source details - Title: The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Occupational Safety and Workplace Health, 2015 / Clarke, S. (ed./s), pp.414-436
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This chapter outlines psychosocial safety climate as an extension of current work stress frameworks, and expounds its predictive and ameliorating or moderating roles, its multilevel characteristics, and role in interventions to improve workplace psychological health. The evidence-base for psychosocial safety climate theory is examined. An important aspect of the psychosocial safety climate construct is that it fits to and extends current models of workplace stress. Most existing models of workplace stress begin with job design and explain how psychosocial work conditions affect psychological health. Psychosocial safety climate theory suggests that interventions to improve workplace conditions and psychological health should be tailored to the level of the organization with a socially coordinated approach including management commitment and priority, organizational communication, participation and involvement. Additional multilevel, longitudinal research using triangulated evidence, and interventions to evaluate the efficacy of psychosocial safety specific leadership training will assist in promoting the development of healthy workplaces
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Copyright 2016 John Wiley and Sons