Psychosocial safety climate as a lead indicator of workplace bullying and harassment, job resources, psychological health and employee engagement

Psychosocial safety climate: a multilevel theory of work stress in the health and community service sector

“…Finally, in relation to its latency for hazardous behaviours, Law et al (2011) found evidence that PSC acts as a latent pathogen for hazardous behaviours such as bullying and harassment. Organisations with high PSC are expected to have policies, practices and procedures regarding appropriate workplace behaviour that are strongly and consistently enacted.…”

“…trained peer support) or by providing a context where workers feel comfortable utilising available resources to cope. Several studies have shown that the detrimental effect of demands on psychological health is moderated in the context of high PSC (Dollard & Bakker, 2010;Law et al, 2011); and PSC at high levels moderated the effect of bullying on posttraumatic stress disorder (Bond et al, 2010).…”

Developing Sustainable Workplaces with Leadership: Feedback about Organizational Working Conditions to Support Leaders in Health-Promoting Behavior

“…It should be noted, that leadership behavior is not the only aspect to support a health-promoting workplace, although it is a very important one. Leaders can be promoters of a healthy workplace and forward their health-promoting influence in a top-down process to lower levels of management and their subordinates [19]. However, the organizational culture influences the leadership behavior by its guidelines, practices and values [59].…”

“…The promotion of healthy working conditions (system-focused action) with the support of leadership has been little studied over the years, but is increasingly becoming a central focus of more recent research. Leaders can build policies, practices and procedures to create a safe psychosocial working climate to protect employee psychological health and safety [19]. These procedures can include managing and changing working conditions to obtain a health-promoting workplace, which is also a much more sustainable approach to change employee health in the current view of WHP [14,20] and in the view of psychosocial risk assessment [21].…”

Relationship between psychosocial factors and musculoskeletal disorders in footwear industry workers

“…Among men, only the 'bullying' and 'stress' factors were significantly associated with symptoms in the hip/thigh and knee regions, respectively. No studies were found evaluating the relationship between the 'bullying' factor and the risk of pain in the hip area, although Law et al (2011) found that this factor was detrimental to the psychosocial environment in the workplace, an effect that could consequently trigger the onset of health problems. With regard to the 'stress' factor, Mehrdad et al (2010) did not find sufficient evidence of a relationship between this factor and WRMD symptoms in the knee, although his findings have noted that 'stress' contributes to symptoms in the feet/ankles.…”