Psychosocial Safety Climate

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Psychosocial Safety Climate: Evolution in Theory and Method

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Psychosocial Safety Climate: A New Work Stress Theory and Implications for Method

      • Maureen F. Dollard, Christian Dormann, Mohd Awang Idris

      Pages 3-30

   3. Psychosocial Safety Climate: A Review of the Evidence

      • Amy Zadow, Maureen F. Dollard, Linda Parker, Kylie Storey

      Pages 31-75

   4. A Corruption of Public Values at Work; Psychosocial Safety Climate, Work Conditions, and Worker Health Across 31 European Countries

      • Maureen F. Dollard, Aditya Jain

      Pages 77-106

3. Impacts of PSC on Workers (Cognitive Decline, Mental Health Problems, Boredom, Personal Initiative and Engagement)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. PSC, Effort-Reward Imbalance and Cognitive Decline; A Road Safety Experiment

      • Ashlee Wilton, Sarven McLinton, Maureen F. Dollard

      Pages 109-128

   3. Psychosocial Safety Climate and Job Demands–Resources: A Multilevel Study Predicting Boredom

      • Valdrin Krasniqi, Yulita, Mohd Awang Idris, Maureen F. Dollard

      Pages 129-148

   4. Psychosocial Safety Climate Within the Model of Proactive Motivation

      • Michelle Chin Chin Lee, Mohd Awang Idris

      Pages 149-168

   5. Psychosocial Safety Climate, Psychological Health, Cynicism, and Professional Efficacy in Policing

      • Maureen F. Dollard, Peter Winwood, Michelle R. Tuckey

      Pages 169-198

   6. Psychosocial Safety Climate as a Factor in Organisational Resilience: Implications for Worker Psychological Health, Resilience, and Engagement

      • Carly Taylor, Maureen F. Dollard, Anna Clark, Christian Dormann, Arnold B. Bakker

      Pages 199-228

   7. Physical and Psychosocial Safety Climate Among Malaysian Healthcare Workers: A Qualitative Study

      • May Young Loh, Mohd Awang Idris, Maureen F. Dollard

      Pages 229-250

   8. A Qualitative Investigation into High Psychosocial Safety Climate University Work Groups

      • Rachael E. Potter, Tessa S. Bailey, Maureen F. Dollard

      Pages 251-270

4. Innovations in Method

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

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   2. Psychosocial Safety Climate and PSC Ideal; Direct and Interaction Effects on JD-R for Mental Health, Job Satisfaction and Work Engagement (Iran)

      • Ali Afsharian, Maureen F. Dollard, Tahereh Ziaian, Christian Dormann, Atefeh Karimzadeh

      Pages 273-303

   3. The Impact of Psychosocial Safety Climate on Health Impairment and Motivation Pathways: A Diary Study on Illegitimate Tasks, Appreciation, Worries, and Engagement Among German Nurses

      • Julia Schulte-Braucks, Christian Dormann

      Pages 305-324

   4. An Approach to the Further Development and Application of the PSC Tool by Applying Cognitive Interviewing in Germany

      • Michael Ertel, Maren Formazin

      Pages 325-340

   5. The Climate According to Whom? Does It Matter Who Reports PSC?

      • Levi James McCusker, Maureen F. Dollard

      Pages 341-362

5. Interventions, Measurement, Research, Practical and Policy Implications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 363-363

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   2. Factors Influencing Managers’ Ownership of Organisational Health Interventions

      • Caroline Biron, Geneviève Baril-Gingras, Rebecca Lefebvre, Shirley Chabot, Stéphanie Boulay-Leclerc

      Pages 365-384

This book is a valuable, comprehensive and unique reference text on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), a new work stress theory. It proposes a new PSC theory concerning the corporate climate for workers’ psychological health, its origins and implications for work stress, and provides a critique of current research and theories. It provides a comprehensive review of all PSC studies to date. The chapters discuss state-of-the-art empirical evidence testing PSC theory in relation to management roles, organisational resilience, corruption, organisational status, cultural perspectives, illegitimate tasks, high PSC work groups, PSC variability in work groups, etc. They investigate outcomes such as psychological distress, emotional exhaustion, depression, worry, engagement, health, cognitive decline, personal initiative, boredom, cynicism, sickness absence, and productivity loss, in various workplace settings across many countries. This unique book allows practitioners to rapidly update practical measures, benchmarks and processes, and provides students and trainees with an introduction to PSC and important concepts and methods, quantitative and qualitative, in occupational health with leads to further sources. Students as well as experts on occupational health and safety, human resource management, occupational health psychology, organisational psychology and practitioners, unions and policy makers will find this book highly informative. It covers relevant materials for undergraduate and postgraduate education, drawing upon the concepts, topics and methods (diary, multilevel, longitudinal, qualitative, data linkage) within the multidisciplinary occupational health area.

• Psychosocial Safety Climate
• Psychosocial Risk
• Work Stress
• Occupational Health Management
• Engagement
• Measurement

• Centre for Workplace Excellence, and the Asia Pacific Centre for Work Health and Safety, A WHO Collaborating Centre in Occupational Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

  Maureen F. Dollard

• Faculty of Law, Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

  Christian Dormann

• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  Mohd Awang Idris

Maureen Dollard is Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology, Co-Director Centre for Workplace Excellence, Director and Head of the Asia Pacific Centre for Work Health and Safety, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health at the University of South Australia. She is a Board Member, International Commission of Occupational Health (ICOH), Foundation President of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work, and former Co-chair of the ICOH-Work Organisation and Psychosocial Factors (WOPS), Scientific Committee. She was chair of the ICOH-WOPS conference in Adelaide September 2014. She established a national surveillance system of psychosocial (stress) factors at work, The Australian Workplace Barometer, and the StressCafé.

Christian Dormann is Professor of  Business Education & Management at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Since 2011, Christian Dormann has also been adjunct research professor at the School ofPsychology, Social Work and Social Policy at the University of South Australia (UNISA). He also served as an editor of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and as associate and consulting editor of several other journals, including the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. His research focus is on stress in organisations. In particular, he has been interested in psychosocial aspects of work.

Mohd Awang Idris is an Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Psychology, Department Anthropology and Sociology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He is the Elected President of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work. His research interests include job stress, psychosocial safety climate, leadership, and employee' performance.  He is also a reviewer for some well-known journals such as Safety Science, International Journal of Stress Management, Journal Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Advanced Nursing.

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