• A few very brief notes on an article from De Cieri (2019) titled, “๐™’๐™ค๐™ง๐™ ๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™–๐™˜๐™š ๐™—๐™ช๐™ก๐™ก๐™ฎ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ: ๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™š๐™ญ๐™–๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™š๐™ง ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ง๐™จ” This study involved an online survey of members of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Victoria). Of the 69,927 members, 4,891 completed the survey. 42% of respondents reported experiencing bullying at work during the […]

  • Abstract The bureaucratic and impersonal nature of public management can fertilize workplace bullying and risks for psychological health and safety. Psychological safety climate (PSC) is an important indicator to reduce psychological hazards. Yet, there have been few studies conducted to examine the existence of PSC in the public sector in non-Western economies. This study examined […]

  • Abstract Psychosocial safety climate (PSC) is defined as shared perceptions of organizational policies, practices and procedures for the protection of worker psychological health and safety, that stem largely from management practices. PSC theory extends the Job Demandsโ€“Resources (JD-R) framework and proposes that organizational level PSC determines work conditions and subsequently, psychological health problems and work […]

  • In my previous couple of posts, I’ve written about some papers that explore the relationship between organisational / safety climate and the risks of workplace violence.ย  This post covered a paper on Determinants of workplace violence against clinical physicians in hospitals.ย  This one explored the relationship between safety climate and verbal abuse among public hospital-based […]

  • Just a very quick summary in just two bullet points. This paper from Gimeno et al. (2012) is on the relationship between safety climate and verbal abuse. Some research papers cover a lot of data about a very narrowly scoped research question that can be summed up very succinctly. This is one such paper. The […]

  • Abstract This study was undertaken to investigate whether work variables identified in theory and research as being related to employee experiences/behaviours add to the understanding and explain employeesโ€™ experiences of workplace harassment. The extent to which social cognitive theory (SCT), specifically moral disengagement, explains the processes by which work characteristics are related to harassment was […]