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 […]
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. This post covered a paper on Determinants of workplace violence against clinical physicians in hospitals. This one explored the relationship between safety climate and verbal abuse among public hospital-based […]
Another quick summary from Wu et al. (2015) on the determinants of workplace violence against clinical physicians in (Taiwanese) hospitals. This paper adds further weight to the business case for an improved safety climate in workplaces, in this case; hospitals, as a protective factor against workplace violence. Abstract Objectives: Workplace violence in the health sector […]
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 […]
As the title indicates, this paper explored the relationships between social (dis)organisation and social ties and workplace sexual harassment. The authors’ 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, “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, and other […]