A few very brief notes on an article from De Cieri (2019) titled, “๐๐ค๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ก๐ก๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐: ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ญ๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐ค๐ ๐ฅ๐ค๐ฌ๐๐ง ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ค๐ง๐จ” 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 DemandsโResources (JD-R) framework and proposes that organizational level PSC determines work conditions and subsequently, psychological health problems and work […]
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 […]
Despite the critical role they play in shaping society and organisational culture and practice, the role of government regulators and external influences is the least researched level of the vertical system structure (see Rasmussenโs Hierarchical Sociotechnical System Structure).ย Much more work needs to be done in this space. During COVID lockdowns, based on anecdotal evidence […]
As the title indicates, this paper explored the relationships between social (dis)organisation and social ties and workplace sexual harassment. The authorsโ aim was to identify predictors of sexual harassment victimisation in the workplace. Sexual harassment has been defined by the (USA) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as, โunwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, and other […]
