Psychosocial safety climate as a predictor of work engagement, creativity, innovation, and work performance: A case study of software engineers

Creativity is vital for competitive advantage within technological environments facing the fourth industrial revolution. However, existing research on creativity has rarely addressed how a climate beneficial for worker psychological health, a psychosocial safety climate (PSC), could additionally sti...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in psychology Jg. 14; S. 1082283
Hauptverfasser: Zadow, Amy, Loh, May Young, Dollard, Maureen Frances, Mathisen, Gro Ellen, Yantcheva, Bella
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 06.04.2023
Schlagworte:
creativity
engagement
innovation
Psychology
psychosocial safety climate
software engineers
work performance
innovation
psychosocial safety climate
software engineers
work performance
engagement
creativity
ISSN:1664-1078, 1664-1078
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Zusammenfassung:Creativity is vital for competitive advantage within technological environments facing the fourth industrial revolution. However, existing research on creativity has rarely addressed how a climate beneficial for worker psychological health, a psychosocial safety climate (PSC), could additionally stimulate the growth of workplace creativity, innovation, and performance in digital environments. To examine how individually perceived PSC influences subsequent work engagement promoting higher levels of computer-based radical and incremental creativity, innovation, and work performance, employees in a software engineering firm ( = 29, 86 observations) completed a weekly questionnaire for 4 consecutive weeks. At the between-person level PSC was positively related to average future weekly individual fluctuations of creativity (radical and incremental), work engagement, and job performance. Additionally weekly work engagement was related to future creativity (radical and incremental). Work engagement also mediated the between-person relationship between PSC and future creativity (both radical and incremental). PSC did not predict innovation. This study contributes to the theory on PSC, creativity, and work performance by elucidating the individual perceived PSC-creativity relationship and suggesting PSC systems as meaningful antecedents to digital work performance.
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Reviewed by: Zilong Cui, Jilin University of Finance and Economics, China; Joseph Psotka, United States Army Research Institute, United States
This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: Nicola Mucci, University of Florence, Italy
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1082283