Dissertations / Theses: 'Psychological work climate'

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Conning, Kerri Cope John. "Psychological Climate and Work Addiction Risk: Do the Perceptions of Our Organizations Matter?" [Greenville, N.C.] : East Carolina University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2223.

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Redding, Blake. "Psychological climate, personality and organisational proactivity : an exploration of the relationship /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18540.pdf.

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Arnaud, Anke. "A NEW THEORY AND MEASURE OF ETHICAL WORK CLIMATE: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS MODEL (PPM) AND THE ETHICAL CLIMATE INDEX (ECI)." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2384.

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ABSTRACT With this dissertation I developed a new theory and measure of ethical work climate (EWC). Currently, there exists one dominant theory and measure of EWC developed by Victor and Cullen (1988, 1987). Even though researchers have identified problems with this theory, such as inconsistencies with regard to its limited theoretical scope and troubling psychometric properties, it is the most widely utilized framework for conceptualizing and testing EWC. Therefore, I propose to develop an improved theory and measure of EWC, one capable of addressing some of the principle shortcomings of earlier efforts. Building on Rest's (1986, 1979) "Four-Component" model of individual-level ethical decision-making and behavior, I specify four dimensions of EWC necessary for the emergence of ethical behavior: collective moral sensitivity, collective moral judgment, collective moral motivation, and collective moral character. I developed a multidimensional instrument capable of capturing each of these dimensions at the climate level. I anticipate that this theory and instrument will allow researchers to understand EWCs and their impact on attitudes and behaviors more effectively than previous approaches. Chapter 1 reviews the organizational climate and culture literatures, so as to gain a comprehensive understanding of the organizational climate construct in general and how it differs from organizational culture in particular. Chapter 2 includes a review and evaluation the EWC literature. This helped to identify opportunities and suggestions for a new theory and measure of EWC. Chapter 3 describes the development of the new theory of EWCs, the Psychological Process Model, with propositions for future research. Chapter 4 informs about the development of the Ethical Climate Index, the measure used to assess the new theory of EWCs. It describes 3 studies that were used to construct the Ethical Climate Index to measure the ethical work climate dimensions of collective moral sensitivity (12-items), collective moral judgment (10-items), collective moral motivation (8-items), and collective moral character (6-items). Study 1 and 2 resulted in parsimonious and reliable scales for each one of the four dimensions. Results of the 3rd study support convergent and discriminant validity for each one of the scales and suggest that the ECI is a valid and reliable predictor of ethical and unethical behavior. Implications and suggestions for the use of this measure in future research is discussed.
Ph.D.
Department of Management
Business Administration
Business Administration: Ph.D.

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Rodriguez, Jose Luis. "INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY CLIMATE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/682.

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Leadership is a well-known complex phenomenon that focuses on important organizational, social and personal processes, where leadership is dependent on a process of social influence, which occurs between the leader and follower (Bolden, 2004). Therefore, leaders need to operate with a certain understanding of leadership and the environment in order to address the increasing pressures and demands that come with being a leader. However, leadership concepts too often focus on leader behaviors apart from their effects on followers; in contrast, Inclusive Leadership (IL) highlights the importance of leadership as a social construction process between the leader and follower. The present study first examines the association of IL and employee engagement (EE), and second, the moderating effect of Psychological Diversity Climate (PDC) on the association between IL and EE. Specifically, context that related to leader characteristics and employee behavior was furthered explored to help shape an understanding on how contextual factors affect the relationship. First, a bivariate correlation revealed that IL was shown to be significantly and positively related to EE. Second, a regression analysis using Andrew Hayes’ PROCESS tool on SPSS was used to examine the moderation, which found that PDC did not significantly moderate the relationship between IL and EE. Additional analyses were further explored to address the insignificant findings for the purpose of explaining if one of IL’s sub-dimensions significantly affected the moderation analysis. Similar, to hypothesis testing, no significant results were found. The results suggest that immediate supervisors play a critical role in enhancing EE; however, no additive effect occurs when a PDC is incorporated. Implications and recommendations for future research are discussed. Data consisted of 221 adult men and women working a minimum of 12 months and 20 or more hours a week to support our model.

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Riggle, Robert J. "The impact of organizational climate variables of perceived organizational support, workplace isolation, and ethical climate on salesperson psychological and behavioral work outcomes." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002037.

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Balogun, Tolulope Victoria. "An intergrated model of the role of authentic leadership, psychological capital, psychological climate and intention to quit on employee work engagement: A comparative analysis." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6327.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Industrial Psychology)
Organizations exist for the primary aim of meeting particular objectives: innovation and advancement, customer satisfaction, profit making and delivery of quality goods and services. These goals are mostly channelled with the intent of demonstrating high performance crucial for the continued existence of the organization especially in these rapidly changing global economies. This target, however, cannot be achieved without the aid of employees in the organization. A plethora of previous studies have proven that efficiency, productivity, high performance and stability on the job can be better achieved when the employees are dedicated, committed to their work roles and experience work engagement. The experience of work engagement on the part of the employees is not a random event; it depends on a myriad of factors that include authentic leadership. Leaders have a cumulative change effect on their followers; hence, leaders in an organization can be termed as core drivers of employee engagement. Hence, it becomes imperative to seek to understand what authentic leadership as a construct has to offer to the workplace.

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Shafadi, Julia. "Ledares förväntningar på medarbetares bidrag till arbetsklimatet." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-39308.

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Forskning visar att ledares förväntningar på medarbetarna är betydelsefullt för att skapa ett gott arbetsklimat, trots detta är forskningsområdet relativt outforskat. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka ledares förväntningar på medarbetare, utifrån hur medarbetarna kan bidra till ett gott arbetsklimat. Studien utfördes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med 8 ledare, med ett åldersspann på 34-55 år, det var fem män och tre kvinnor. Det insamlade materialet meningskoncentrerades och analyserades med en narrativ metod. Resultatet visade att ledare kan tydliggöra sina förväntningar på sina medarbetare genom tydlig kommunikation, delaktighet och uppföljning. Resultatet visade även att de faktorer som ledarna beskrev som viktiga för arbetsklimatets framtid var; att ge feedback, att ha målfokus, att ta ansvar för arbetsklimatet och att tydliggöra förväntningar.Slutsatsen blev att det finns ett behov av att tydliggöra de förväntningar som ledarna har på sina medarbetare. Det visade också att involvera medarbetarna i arbetsklimatarbeten och att skapa en medvetenhet om ett gemensamt ansvar för arbetsklimatet kan vara ett betydelsefullt sätt att göra detta.

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Munyaka, Sharon Audley. "The relationship between authentic leadership, psychological capital, psychological climate, team commitment and the intention to quit in a South African manufacturing organisation." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021088.

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Grounded in the positive psychology paradigm the recently recognised core construct of psychological capital was focussed in a South African study. A non-experimental, correlational study (n=204) examined the relationship between authentic leadership, psychological capital, psychological climate, team commitment and intention to quit. The present study was exploratory in nature and the pattern of relationships being investigated had not been previously tested in a South African context. A self-administered composite questionnaire consisting of five psychological scales were distributed to employees in the junior to senior management level at a global tyre manufacturing organisation based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The five scales were the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire by Walumbwa, Psychological Capital Questionnaire by Luthans, Psychological Climate by Koys and DeCotiis, Team Commitment by Bennett and the Intention to Quit Scale by Cohen. All the measures applied on the South African sample were developed outside South Africa and model equivalence had to be established. The content and structure of the measures were investigated through confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis. With the exception of the Cohen scale of intention to quit, all other measures changed their factorial structures to suit the present data. The propositions in the study were tested through descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVA, post hoc tests, Cohen’s d, Pearson product-moment correlation and multiple regressions. Structural equation models were built to test the relationships between the scales and sub scales of authentic leadership, psychological capital, psychological climate, team commitment and intention to quit. Results of the analyses carried out, show significantly strong relationships between the variables. Of note is the marked relationship between authentic leadership and psychological climate. Most of the propositions were accepted in light of the relationships that emerged. The proposition indicating structural equation models was rejected because none of the models built in the study successfully produced an adequate fit on the data. Contributions of the study were in terms of the portability of the measurement instruments applied in the study as well as the relationships that emerged. Re-validation of the measures is required to enable clarity on how the variables in the study are interpreted across cultural contexts. Directions for future research include extending the study to other samples and other cultures. Measuring social desirability of the instruments could possibly provide clarity on how the different samples respond to the measures. Studies that compare the reading ability as well as the ability to comprehend the items in the measures would provide valuable information.

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Didla, Shama. "Influence of leadership and safety climate on employee safety compliance and citizenship behaviours." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=25498.

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Buck, Michael Anthony. "Proactive Personality and Big Five Traits in Supervisors and Workgroup Members: Effects on Safety Climate and Safety Motivation." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/268.

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In 2009 there were 3.28 million non-fatal occupational injuries and illnesses (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010). Of these injuries and illnesses, 965,000 resulted in lost days from work. In addition there were 4,340 workplace fatalities. Given the number of occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, and the associated direct and indirect costs, organizations have sought to improve safety at work. Safety climate and safety motivation are two variables hypothesized to affect safety behaviors and safety outcomes. Safety climate refers to the shared perceptions of workgroup members, of the organizations' commitment to safety as evidenced by heir immediate supervisors' pattern of implementing safety policies and procedures (Zohar, 2003). Therefore, the workgroup supervisor plays an major role in the development of safety climate. Social exchange theory and previous studies of leadership styles and safety suggest that supervisors who convey concern for subordinates' well-being increase workers' motivation to reciprocate by increasing their safe behaviors at work. However, no research to date has examined the relationship between supervisors' personality and workers perceptions of safety climate, or the effect of Big Five trait-level variables on workers safety motivation. In this study I hypothesize that supervisors' proactive personality and three Big Five traits will be positively related to workers' safety climate perceptions. In addition, I hypothesize that four Big Five traits in workers will be positively related to workers safety motivation. Finally, I hypothesize that group-level safety climate will be significantly related to individual-level safety motivation after controlling for workers' personality. Participants in this study were maintenance and construction workers from a municipal city bureau, in 28 workgroups, totaling 146 workers and 28 supervisors. Workgroup sizes vary but averaged 6.21 members, including the supervisor. The data were collected in small groups (paper-and-pencil) and electronically (on-line); workers and supervisors answered questionnaire items on personality variables, safety climate, safety motivation, safety behaviors, and safety outcomes. In addition, archival data on safety outcomes were collected. The data were analyzed using a combination of multiple regression, multi-level modeling, and path analysis to test hypotheses and answer research questions. Both proactive personality and Big Five traits in supervisors accounted for incremental variance in aggregated workgroup safety climate over controls. In addition, workgroup safety climate and individual workers' cautiousness were significant predictors of workgroup safety motivation in a hierarchical linear model. At the individual level of the model, only the traits of cautiousness and morality were significant predictors of individual safety motivation. Tests of the Neal and Griffin (2004) model showed that safety motivation partially mediated the relationship between individual safety climate and safety participation behaviors. In addition, safety motivation fully mediated the relationships between morality and both safety compliance and safety participation behaviors. Finally, safety motivation partially mediated the relationship between cautiousness and both safety compliance and safety participation behaviors. The results suggest that supervisor personality can have an effect on the on workgroup safety climate perceptions. In addition, this study provided evidence that Big Five traits are useful predictors of the antecedents of accidents and injuries. Suggestions for training managers and future research are also discussed.

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Leung, Sau-kuen, and 梁秀娟. "Organizational climate in Hong Kong secondary schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31958801.

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Zeanah, Kathryn L. "Experiences of Heterosexist Harassment Among Graduate Students Training to Work as School-Based Professionals: Impact on Psychological Functioning, Academic Wellbeing, and Attitudes Toward Sexual Minority Individuals." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1457540372.

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Låstad, Lena. "Job insecurity climate : The nature of the construct, its associations with outcomes, and its relation to individual job insecurity." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118979.

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Work is an essential part of most people’s lives. With increasing flexibility in work life, many employees experience job insecurity – they perceive that the future of their jobs is uncertain. However, job insecurity is not just an individual experience; employees can perceive that there is a climate of job insecurity at their workplace as well, as people collectively worry about their jobs. The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the job insecurity climate construct and how it relates to work- and health-related outcomes and to individual job insecurity. Three empirical studies were conducted to investigate this aim. Study I investigated the dimensionality of the job insecurity construct by developing and testing a measure of job insecurity climate − conceptualized as the individual’s perception of the job insecurity climate at work − in a sample of employees working in Sweden. The results indicated that individual job insecurity and job insecurity climate are separate but related constructs and that job insecurity climate was related to work- and health-related outcomes. Study II examined the effects of individual job insecurity and job insecurity climate on work- and health-related outcomes in a sample of employees working in a private sector company in Sweden. The results showed that perceiving higher levels of job insecurity climate than others in the workgroup was associated with poorer self-rated health and higher levels of burnout. Study III tested the relationship between individual job insecurity and job insecurity climate in a sample of Flemish employees. The results indicated that individual job insecurity is contagious, as individual job insecurity predicted perceptions of job insecurity climate six months later. In conclusion, by focusing on perceptions of the job insecurity climate, the present thesis introduces a new approach to job insecurity climate research, showing that employees can perceive a climate of job insecurity in addition to their own individual job insecurity and, also, that this perception of the job insecurity climate at work has negative consequences for individuals and organizations.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript.

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Meador, Abby. "Minor Incidents with Major Impacts: The Effects of Bottom-up Incivility on Supervisor Targets." TopSCHOLAR®, 2011. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1047.

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Incivility within organizations is a rampant problem with dire consequences,including adverse effects on both job satisfaction and psychological states. This study was conducted to address the gap in the current literature that looks at incivility within organizations. To date, no studies have assessed the impact of bottom-up incivility (i.e., incivility that is directed from subordinates to supervisors) on supervisor targets. Thus, this study investigated the impact of bottom-up forms of incivility of supervisors’ mental and physical states, as well as their levels of job satisfaction. However, due to small sample sizes, the current research was expanded to address the effects of both bottom-up incivility and other forms of incivility (i.e., peer-to-peer and superior-to-subordinate). As a result, the study consisted of two samples: bottom-up targets (N = 19) and targets of all forms of incivility (N = 89). In the bottom-up sample, results showed that instances of bottom-up incivility are a significant predictor of lower levels of job satisfaction. In the sample of targets of all forms of incivility, the results indicated that incivility was a significant predictor of lower levels of mental health. In the sample of targets of all forms of incivility, hierarchical regression analyses also showed that the effects of incivility on physical health were mediated by mental health.

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Eismann, Christian. "Soziale Vergleichsprozesse in Organisationen zwischen Arbeitsklima und -zufriedenheit." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-211340.

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Die vorliegende Arbeit vertritt die These, dass kein direkter Zusammenhang zwischen dem Arbeitsklima und der allgemeinen Arbeitszufriedenheit besteht, sondern dass er durch soziale Vergleichsprozesse vermittelt ist. Das Arbeitsklima ist Gegenstand und Moderator sozialer Vergleiche, aus denen Arbeitszufriedenheit resultiert. Das Arbeitsklima beeinflusst damit zwar den Entstehungsprozess von Arbeitszufriedenheit, aber nicht dessen Ausmaß. Von affektiven und regulativen Klimadimensionen gehen unterschiedliche Wirkungsmechanismen aus. Überschreiten soziale Vergleiche die Organisationsgrenze, ändert sich die Logik der Entstehung von Arbeitszufriedenheit.

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Huyghebaert, Tiphaine. "Déterminants organisationnels de la santé psychologique, d'attitudes et de comportements critiques des professionnels du secteur sanitaire, social, et médico-social : les besoins psychologiques comme mécanismes explicatifs." Thesis, Tours, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOUR2008/document.

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L’objectif général de ce travail doctoral était d’identifier des leviers d’action permettant de préserver la santé psychologique des travailleurs, de réduire certaines de leurs attitudes et comportements néfastes pour les organisations de santé, et de comprendre les mécanismes explicatifs de ces relations. La première étude a démontré que le climat de sécurité psychosociale (i.e., PSC) était négativement associé au conflit travail-famille (i.e., WFC) et aux intentions de turnover des soignants via la frustration des besoins psychologiques. La seconde étude a mis en évidence que le PSC, via son influence sur la frustration des besoins, était associé à une réduction du burnout des soignants trois mois plus tard qui expliquait à son tour une augmentation du WFC et des intentions de turnover. La troisième étude a démontré que la dissonance émotionnelle et les ressources organisationnelles influençaient le manque de détachement psychologique et l’engagement au travail des professionnels d’encadrement au terme d’une période de trois mois, via leurs effets sur la frustration et la satisfaction des besoins. Ces trois études enrichissent la littérature scientifique sur la théorie de l’autodétermination en contexte de travail et alimentent la réflexion sur les pratiques organisationnelles susceptibles de modifier durablement l’expérience professionnelle des salariés du secteur
The general purpose of this doctoral dissertation was to contribute to identify triggers to preserve workers’ psychological health and reduce some of their negative attitudes and behaviors which appear to be harmful to healthcare organizations. Moreover, we aimed to understand the mechanisms underlying such effects. Study 1 used a cross-sectional design to demonstrate that psychosocial safety climate (i.e., PSC) was negatively related to nursing staff’s work-family conflict (i.e., WFC) and turnover intentions, through the mediation of psychological need thwarting. Study 2 developed these results by showing how PSC, through its influence on psychological need thwarting, related to a decrease in burnout three months later. Burnout itself explained an increase in WFC and turnover intentions. Study 3 focused on managers’ psychological health and found that emotional dissonance and organizational resources influenced managers lack of psychological detachment and work engagement three months later, through psychological need thwarting and satisfaction. Altogether, these studies contribute to self-determination theory in the work setting and offer some perspectives on organizational practices that could lastingly alter healthcare employees’ professional experience

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Johansson, Evelina, and Emma Johansson. ""Den som får, den ger" : En kvalitativ fallstudie om faktorer som påverkar organisationers retention." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-37559.

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Det har skett en förändring både på arbetsmarknaden och arbetsplatsen. Det som förändrats är förväntningarna på arbetet och på dess innehåll. Syftet med studien är att undersöka varför så många medarbetare väljer att lämna en avdelning i en organisation vars personalomsättning annars är låg. Resultatet ska kunna användas som ett underlag för att organisationer ska kunna höja sin retention och behålla befintliga samt framtida medarbetare på avdelningen. Denna studie är begränsad till en särskild avdelning och är utformad som en kvalitativ fallstudie med en abduktiv ansats. Åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts till största delen ur ett arbetstagarperspektiv men även med två arbetsgivarrepresentanter. Intervjuerna visade att avsikten att lämna avdelningen oftast beror på flera faktorer i kombination med varandra. Om de lämnar vid ett tidigare skede kan bero på att förväntningar inte uppfylls. Bristen på möjlighet till karriärutveckling gör att medarbetare lämnar avdelningen om de vill utvecklas. Det har funnits en känsla av att bli orättvist behandlad samt en brist på egenkontroll när de anställda möter en högre arbetsbelastning. Faktorerna ovan i kombination med brist på stöd ökar den anställdas avsikt att lämna.

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Cadiz, David Michael. "The Effects of Ageism Climates and Core Self-Evaluations on Nurses' Turnover Intentions, Organizational Commitment, and Work Engagement." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/50.

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It is estimated that by 2018, workers age 55 or older will compose nearly a quarter of the labor force (Tossi, 2009). The aging workforce is dramatically affecting the nursing workforce. Indeed, the nursing workforce is expected to face staffing shortages of epidemic proportions because of the impending retirement of nurses who are Baby Boomers (Buerhaus, et al., 2006). Moreover, the nursing shortage is exacerbated by younger nurses' greater willingness to turn over (Aiken et al., 2001). Consequently, investigating how the workplace context affects retention of nurses is important. The present study sought to address the nursing shortage concern through examining how the workplace climate associated with age-related worker treatment and individual characteristics affect nurse retention. In this study, I developed and validated new ageism climate measures, which include younger worker, older worker, and general ageism climates. I examined how ageism climates affect people's job withdrawal intentions, organizational commitment, and work engagement. Additionally, I investigated whether Core Self-Evaluation (CSE; Judge, Locke, Durham, 1998) moderates the ageism climates relationships with the outcome variables. During the scale development and validation process, I found that assessments of younger and older worker ageism climates depend on the age of the respondent, whereas general ageism climate did not have this dependency. Because younger and older ageism climates displayed measurement non-equivalence across age groups, I tested each of my hypotheses using three sample variations (under 40, 40 and older, and combined sample). In the under 40 sample, CSE buffered the negative effects of negative older and younger worker ageism climates, and CSE enhanced the positive effects of a positive general age climate on turnover intentions and organizational commitment. In the 40 and older sample, I found that less ageist younger and older worker climates were associated with decreased turnover intentions and increased affective commitment. Finally, in the combined sample, I observed that a less ageist general ageism climate was associated with lower turnover intentions and greater affective commitment. The results contribute to our understanding of how perceptions of age-related treatment affect important workplace outcomes. The findings also support ageism climates as separate measures. However, additional measure development and validation is needed because this was the initial study to investigate ageism climate. This study has implications for the relational demography paradigm (Tsui & O'Reilly, 1989) in that people's age group identification may affect their ageism climate perceptions. This potentially explains the differential relationships among the ageism climates on the outcomes between the under 40 and 40 and older age groups. From a practical perspective, improving ageism climates in the workplace could positively affect nurse retention, which could alleviate some of the nursing shortage concerns.

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Naran, Vandana. "Psychological capital and work-related attitudes : the moderating role of a supportive organisational climate." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/13164.

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This study aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological capital and the work-related attitudes of job satisfaction and organisational commitment recognising the hierarchical nature of the data. This relationship was examined in light of a supportive organisational climate as defined by supervisor support which played the role of a moderator in this relationship. Data was gathered using a number of structured questionnaires which were distributed to employees via an online link. The Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Luthans, Youssef & Avolio, 2007), Organisational Commitment Questionnaire (Mowday, Steers & Porter, 1982), Warr, Cook and Wall’s (1979) measure of job satisfaction and Eisenberger’s (1986) adapted measure of supervisor support were administered. A total of 14 departments participated in the study and 50 employees completed the questionnaires. A Hierarchical Linear Model analysis (HLM) was used to analyse the data along with Pearson product moment correlations and a two-way ANOVA. Results indicated that psychological capital was related moderately and positively to job satisfaction but was not related to organisational commitment. Supervisor support was related to both job satisfaction and organisational commitment. Finally supervisor support moderated the relationship between psychological capital and job satisfaction but no interaction was found for the relationship between psychological capital and organisational commitment as moderated by supervisor support. This paper concludes with a discussion of the results, implications of the findings, limitations and directions for future research.

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Chang, Wei-Chieh, and 張緯杰. "Effects of supportive organizational culture, psychological climate, and employee involvement on psychological empowerment and work attitudes: A study of the high-tech industry." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13107923656217942078.

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博士
國立中央大學
企業管理研究所
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This study investigates the effects and underlying process of psychological empowerment, supportive organizational culture, and psychological climate on the relationships between employee involvement and work attitudes. It is found that employee involvement positively relates to psychological empowerment. Psychological empowerment positively relates to employees’ job satisfaction as well as organizational identification, and negatively relates to withdrawal behavior. As to the mediation, psychological empowerment does not mediate the relationships between employee involvement and outcome variables such as job satisfaction, organizational identification, and psychological withdrawal behavior. In addition, organizational-level supportive organizational culture positively affects individuals-level psychological climate, which positively moderates the relationship between employee involvement and psychological empowerment. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are thus discussed.

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Peiwen, Fu, and 傅培雯. "The Study on the Elderly's Psychological Perceptions in Caring Work Technology Appling the Intelligence Environmental Climate Sensing Device." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35k99n.

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碩士
國防大學
資訊管理學系
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In order to understand the usage of information technology to support elderly care, this research is focus on studying the possibility of using information technology to increase the satisfaction and receptions of elderly care using information technology. According the purpose technology assistance system is build to gather the characteristics of elderly care information by some modern intelligence environmental climate sensing devices for establishment a machine learning model in this research. Based on the experimental method, whenever any warning is triggered by the model using the input of environmental climate sensing devices, in the meanwhile the individual interview is processed to collect the opinions and analyze for comfort environmental climate data. The analyzed results will provide assistance and recommendations for nursing care operation from the assistant system. There are four results in the conclusions of this study :First, existing nursing care technology module cannot satisfy for all needs, continuous learning and measurement is required for individual satisfactions. Second, the function of nursing care technology will be enlarged when strengthen the humanistic care and mastery of individual needs. Next, overall self nursing care level of elderly will be increased with proper care technology and social support network. Finally, implementing proper scales will increase message accuracy of technology assistance system, and a comfortable design will increase willingness of usage.

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Parker, Christopher Paul. "An assessment of constructs underlying perceptions of the work environment and their correspondence with current models of psychological climate." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16867.

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Two studies explored issues related to the content and structure of psychological climate: First, confirmatory analyses of self-report climate survey data examined the James and James (1989) hierarchical model of psychological climate and three alternatives to their notion of a general factor underlying climate perceptions (PC$\sb{\rm g}$). These archival data (N = 8109) were obtained from multiple locations of a government R&D organization. Second, a modified version of Kelly's (1955) repertory grid technique was used to identify the personal constructs that individuals use to interpret organizational events and assess their correspondence with current models of psychological climate. Participants (N = 27), from the organization in study one, elicited 213 personal constructs from meaningful organizational events. They then rated the similarity of their constructs with thirty reference dimensions derived from previous research. Confirmatory analyses, conducted in study one, were somewhat supportive of the James and James hierarchical model of psychological climate. However, the best fitting model suggests that their hierarchical structure may be due to either a methodological artifact or a form of response bias. Alternative models, positing that responses to climate surveys are driven by respondents' level of satisfaction and that PC$\sb{\rm g}$ and satisfaction are redundant were not supported. Results of study two indicate that the general factor (PC$\sb{\rm g}$) underlying hierarchical models may actually represent an assessment of the work environment in terms of one's level of personal control rather than the impact to one's well-being. The constructs that individuals use to interpret organizational events, as elicited in study two, are consistent with the dimensions identified in prior climate research. Factor analyses of individuals' personal constructs indicate that they can be grouped according to the following dimensions: job autonomy and personal control; rewards and recognition; job challenge and skill development; group interaction and cooperation; satisfaction; clarity of organization roles and procedures; employee's impact; impact to one's well-being; quality of supervision; organizational politics; and organizational support. In addition, these data suggest that previous distinctions between psychological climate and satisfaction, based on cognition and affect, have been overly restrictive and should be reexamined. Implications for future research are discussed.

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"A study of perception of human resources system: climate for commitment, goal orientation, and team role performance." 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5893980.

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Kwok, Tak Yee.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-115).
Abstract also in Chinese; appendix II-IV in Chinese.
ABSTRACT --- p.i
摘要 --- p.iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv
LIST OF TABLES --- p.vi
LIST OF FIGURE --- p.vii
Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1
Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.6
Overview of Climate --- p.6
Content of Climate --- p.10
Outcomes of Climate --- p.12
Individual Processes Linking Climate and Outcomes --- p.14
Deriving Climate from Perception of Human Resource Systems --- p.16
Climate for Commitment - Perceptions of Commitment Human Resource Systems --- p.74
Overview of Goal Orientation --- p.28
Dimensionality of Goal Orientation --- p.30
Trait versus State Goal Orientations and their Antecedents --- p.32
Outcomes of Goal Orientation --- p.34
Overview of Job Performance --- p.37
Team Role Performance --- p.40
Predictors of Team Role Performance --- p.43
Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- MODEL AND HYPOTHESES DEVELOPMENT --- p.46
Theoretical Underpinnings of Model --- p.46
Model Development --- p.50
Hypotheses Development --- p.54
Climate for Commitment and Team Role Performance --- p.54
Mediating Role of Learning Goal Orientation in the Relationship between --- p.54
Climate for Commitment and Team Role Performance --- p.58
Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- METHODS --- p.68
Sample and Procedures --- p.68
Measures --- p.70
Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- RESULTS --- p.76
Factor Structure of the Measures --- p.76
Descriptive Statistics and Correlations --- p.80
Test of the Hypothesized Model --- p.82
Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- DISCUSSION --- p.86
Theoretical Implications --- p.88
Practical Implications --- p.91
Limitations --- p.92
Future Directions for Research --- p.95
Conclusion --- p.98
REFERENCES --- p.99
APPENDIX --- p.116
Appendix I: Measurement Items for this Study --- p.116
Appendix II: Questionnaire for Subordinate at Time 1 (Chinese) --- p.118
Appendix III: Questionnaire for Subordinate at Time 2 (Chinese) --- p.124
Appendix IV: Questionnaire for Supervisor (Chinese) --- p.130

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Huang, Ya-Hsuan, and 黃雅鉉. "The Effects of Achievement Motivation and Proactive Personality on Work Flow─ The Moderation of Competitive Psychological Climate and Organization Trust." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/fw2nn4.

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碩士
國立交通大學
管理科學系所
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The main purpose of this research is to investigate how the different characteristics of individual employees such as achievement motivation and proactive personality affect their workflow and how the competitive psychological climate and organization trust moderate the influence of achievement motivation and proactive personality on workflow. As employees often have different perceptions about their organizations, their perceptions may interact with their personal characteristics to affect their workflow. The employees with a higher achievement motivation or a proactive personality can have a greater workflow experience even under the situation with higher competition. On the other hand, these employees will be more immerse in their jobs if they perceive a higher level of organizational trust. This research used online questionnaire to collect data from the employees in industries. The final samples included 170 subjects. We found that employees’ achievement, perceived competitive psychological climate, and perceived organization trust all had a positive effect on their workflow. The competitive psychological climate had a negative moderation effect on the relationship between achievement motivation and workflow and also the relationship between proactive personality and workflow. However, the moderation effect of organization trust on the above two relationships were not insignificant. The results of this study provide business organizations an understanding about the influence of employee personal characteristic and organizational contextual factors on employee workflow, the knowledge which is useful for managing employees’ job involvement.

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Cheng, Chih-lin, and 鄭芷琳. "The Impacts of Psychological Contract on Work Outcome-The Mediating Effect of Organizational Climate and Moderating Effect of Feedback From Others." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62464606838720401338.

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國立中央大學
企業管理研究所
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When the employment relationship established, individual will have expectations on organizations, and organizations also have something to look forward, this organization and its members existence the expect of informal, namely the basic psychological contract concept (Schein, 1965). The organization may exist in the psychological contract types include transactional psychological contract, relational psychological contract, balanced psychological contract, the purpose of this study is to explore the psychological contract type of organization, organizational climate and feedbacks from others on the results (work satisfaction, job performance, job satisfaction) of the impact and organizational climate on the psychological contract between the intermediary and the effect of the results, and feedback from others on the results of the work between organizational climate and moderating effects. 　　In this study, workers in Taiwan as the research object, using paper and Internet questionnaire questionnaire construction survey, a total of 608 valid samples were found, including 284 men (46.9%) and females 322 (53.1%) The average age was 37.85 years. The results show that transactional psychological contract will causes negative effects on job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors ,but relational psychological contract and balanced psychological contract on job satisfaction, job performance, organizational citizenship behavior has a positive influence; organization climate on the part of the psychological contract and the existence of intermediate results of the work results; feedback from others will be positive moderating the organizational climate and job performance, organizational citizenship behavior .

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Tseng, Li-Jen, and 曾麗仁. "How do work stressors’ affect employees positive and negative reactions inn service industry? The moderating roles of organizational support climate and psychological capital." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cxvrn7.

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國立東華大學
企業管理學系
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In this study, we will according the Conservation Of Resource (COR) theory to examine the relationships between Callenge stressors、Hindrance stressors、Work engagement 、Withdrawal behavior、Organizational support climate & Psychological capital. Besides, we also find the organizational support climate and psychological capital can moderate the stressors and work attitudes associations. We use the Questionnaire survey by 190 services teams and 705 of the service staffs in Taiwan region. Results showed that employees face work stressors. Regardless of the challenge stressors or hindrance stressors, the employees perceived the organizational support climate will increase their work engagement. And employees have a higher level of psychological capital, when they face the challenge stressor will become more engagement. Finally, we try to place two moderators, the employees perceived the organizational support climate will add the engagement and decrease employees’ withdrawal behavior. Psychological capital also can moderate the employees’ engagement. These results are consisitent with the theory prediction of resource conservation. Recommended that the organizations can develope or expand employees' positive psychological capital. It can enhance the capability of employees facing stressors. And the organization should be avoided excessive pressure of work to employees. That will make employees face the task, become weakness and tiredness, which led to work alienation or withdrawal behavior.

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Chen, Ching-ming, and 陳清明. "With the samples from the finance industry, this study investigates the relationships between organizational climate, employees’ psychological empowerment, work effort, in-role performance, and their intention to leave." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63545919909798776799.

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國立中央大學
企業管理學系碩士在職專班
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Abstract With the samples from the finance industry, this study investigates the relationships between organizational climate, employees’ psychological empowerment, work effort, in-role performance, and their intention to leave. It is found that employees’ perception of organizational climate has a positive effect on their psychological empowerment. It is also verified that employees’ psychological empowerment has a positive effect on their work effort and in-role performance, and a negative effect on their intention to leave. The mediating effect of psychological empowerment on the relationships between organizational climate and employees’ work effort is partly confirmed. Suggestions and recommendations for future research and managerial practice are then discussed.

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Terera, Sharon Ruvimbo. "Organisational climate, psychological contract breach and employee outcomes among university employees in Limpopo Province: moderating effects of ethical leadership and trust." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1422.

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PhD (Human Resource Management)
Department of Human Resource Management and Labour Relations
Globally, the economic, political and social environment is constantly changing, and this has posed various challenges for organisations in the world of work. South African universities have also not been spared from these changes as they are expected to meet international standards whilst operating in an environment where there are many changes in their work environment with regard to technology, language policy, decolonisation of the curriculum and globalisation. The dynamics in these aspects shape the organisational climate and psychological contracts of all institutions. Any changes in the organisational climate and psychological contracts may influence employee outcomes of organisational citizenship behaviour and intention to leave among employees. Therefore, this study responds to calls from previous studies on organisational climate and psychological contract research to investigate the role of moderators in their association with employee outcomes. There is an urgent demand for organisational leaders to practice ethical leadership and become trustworthy in order to inspire employees to exhibit organisational citizenship behaviour and reduce any intentions of leaving the organisation. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between organisational climate, psychological contract breach and employee outcomes among university employees. It also further investigated the moderating roles of ethical leadership and trust on those relationships. Six objectives were developed based on the aims of the study. To answer the objectives of this study, the research followed cross-sectional design and a quantitative approach was adopted. A total of 202 employees were selected through stratified random sampling to participate in the study and a self- administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. The sample was made up of both academic and administration staff working in the universities. Item analysis was conducted to check the reliability of the scales and all the scales obtained acceptable Cronbach alphas. To explore the factor structure of the scales, exploratory factor analysis was conducted, and poor items were removed until a xv clear and desirable factor solution was obtained. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to validate the data and all the goodness of fit indexes achieved the required level. In addition, the composite reliability and average variance extracted for all scales met the required level. Moderated multiple regression analysis was conducted to measure the moderator roles of ethical leadership and trust in the organisational climate, psychological contract breach and employee outcomes relationships. The results showed that ethical leadership moderated the relationship between organisational climate and organisational citizenship behaviour (Δ R² = .078, F(3,148) = 8.994. p <.001, β = .285, p < .001); and also the relationship between psychological contract breach and organisational citizenship behaviour (Δ R² = .056, F(3,148) = 7.373, β = -.247, p < .005). However, non-significant results were found when testing the moderating role of ethical leadership in the relationship between organisational climate and intention to leave (Δ R² =.000, F(3,148) = 6.275, β =.000, p >.005); and also in the relationship between psychological contract breach and intention to leave (Δ R² = 0.03, F(3.148) = 12.878, β =.055, p > .05). In addition, the results also revealed that trust moderated the relationship between organisational climate and organisational citizenship behaviour (Δ R² =.030, F(3, 148) = 6.521, β =.175, p < .01); and also the relationship between psychological contract breach and organisational citizenship behaviour (Δ R² =.049, F(3.148) = 7.719, β = -.222, p < .001). However, non-significant results were also found in testing trust as moderator in the relationship between organisational climate and intention to leave (Δ R² =.001, F(3,148) = 10.373, β = -.022, p > .01); and also in the relationship between psychological contract breach and intention to leave (Δ R² = 014, F(3, 148) = 17.207, β =.120, , p > .05). The results provides sufficient evidence that organisational climate, psychological contract breach, ethical leadership, and trust can shape employee behavioural outcomes either positively or negatively. This study, therefore recommends that organisations should develop a strong and positive organisational climate in order to improve organisational citizenship xvi behaviour and reduce employees` intentions to leave the organisation. This is achievable with policies that speak to effective communication structure, job recognition, and career development paths. In addition, human resources managers are urged to prevent cases of psychological contract breach through providing employees with realistic overviews of the task to be performed and policy that can aid employees to air their grievances. The study further recommends the establishment of ethical corporate culture within the organisations through which only employees who meet the ethical standards of the organisation are promoted into leadership positions in order to improve the practice of organisational citizenship behaviour and in turn reduce employees` intention to leave the organisation.
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Forget, Mathieu. "Étude des inducteurs de l’intention de quitter chez une population infirmière québécoise." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/19050.

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Dans un contexte mondial où les taux de roulement des effectifs infirmiers oscillent entre 5% et 17% (Heinen et al., 2013) et où l’OCDE (2016) souligne plus que jamais l’importance de s’attarder à la rétention des infirmières et à la diminution de leur départ de la profession, la présente thèse vise à comprendre plus en profondeur les effets différentiels du leadership tyrannique et authentique, du climat psychologique de travail ainsi que du bien-être et de la détresse psychologique sur l’intention de quitter – son unité, son organisation ou sa profession. Appuyé en partie sur les travaux de Hayes et al. (2012) et de Blau (1964), un cadre d’analyse comprenant les éléments suivants a été conceptualisé : 1) les facteurs organisationnels – regroupant le climat psychologique de travail ainsi que le style de leadership, 2) les facteurs individuels – comprenant la santé psychologique et 3) les facteurs externes touchant aux caractéristiques personnelles et démographiques que sont l’âge, le sexe et le niveau d’éducation. Le climat psychologique de travail et le style de leadership sont positionnés en amont au sein du modèle conceptuel alors que la santé psychologique est en aval. L’intention de quitter l’unité, l’organisation et la profession sont les variables prédites. Il est proposé que le style de leadership lorsqu’authentique influence positivement le climat psychologique de travail de même que la santé psychologique, ce qui en retour diminue l’intention de quitter. Parallèlement, il est proposé que le style de leadership tyrannique influence négativement le climat psychologique de travail ce qui génère en outre de la détresse psychologique et de l’intention de quitter. Un échantillon de 903 infirmiers et infirmières québécois d’une multitude de secteurs a complété un questionnaire en ligne traitant du style de leadership de leur supérieur immédiat, du climat psychologique de travail ainsi que du niveau de santé psychologique et de l’intention de quitter. Les relations entre les variables indépendantes et dépendantes ont été analysées à l’aide d’analyses acheminatoires par équations structurelles. Les relations statistiques observées permettent d’expliquer plus du tiers du phénomène de l’intention de quitter, tous niveaux confondus, de même qu’autant du bien-être psychologique et de la détresse psychologique au travail. Les facteurs organisationnels sont instrumentaux dans la compréhension et le redressement de la santé psychologique de même que de l’intention de quitter. Cette thèse identifie le supérieur immédiat comme un acteur clé ayant une contribution directe sur le climat psychologique de travail, la santé psychologique ainsi que l’intention de quitter. Davantage de résultats ainsi que les implications théoriques et pratiques sont discutés.
In a global context where turnover rates among the nurse workforce vary between 5% and 17% and where the OECD (2016) stresses more than ever the importance of understanding nurse retention and acting on their intent to quit, this thesis aims to understand the differential effects of tyrannical and authentic leadership, psychological work climate and well-being and/or psychological distress on one’s intention to quit. Based in part on the works of Hayes et al. (2012) and Blau (1964), an analysis framework that includes the following was conceptualized: 1) organizational factors –that is psychological work climate and style of leadership, 2) individual factors, including psychological health, and 3) external factors, that is the personal and demographic characteristics such as age, sex and education level. Intent to quit is the variable which we aim to predict and explain by the organizational and individual factors. Specifically, it is hypothesized that the style of leadership when authentic will positively influence psychological work climate as well as psychological health, which will in turn diminish one’s intent to quit. Conversely, it is hypothesized that when the style of leadership is tyrannical it will reflect negatively on psychological work climate, which will in turn augment psychological distress as well as one’s intent to quit. Considering this, a Quebec sample of 903 nurses from a multitude of healthcare sectors completed an online questionnaire in which they were asked about their current immediate superior, the psychological work climate in their organization, their degree of psychological health as well as their intention to quit. The statistical relationships between the independent as well as the dependent variables were analyzed using structural equation modelling. The results show that the variables targeted explain more than a third of the variance in intention to quit across all at all levels (quit one’s unit, one’s organization, one’s profession) as well as both the psychological well-being and the psychological distress. Organizational factors are instrumental in understanding and acting on psychological health as well as intent to quit. This study identifies the immediate superior as a key contributor to psychological work climate, psychological well-being and/or distress as well as intent to quit. Practical implications of the study, as well as further research are discussed accordingly.

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Fourie, Anna Sophia. "Predicting satisfaction with quality of work life." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1004.

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A survey was done in order to identify the predictors that contribute to satisfaction with qowl. A positive correlation was found between satisfaction with facets of work life and overall satisfaction with qowl. No significant difference was found between overall satisfaction and the mean of the satisfaction with the facets of work life. Organisational climate seemed to have the greatest influence. Significant predictors are identification with the organisation, participation, communication, resource management, work group functioning, reward system, health and safety aspects, job security and the rate of pay. Significant differences were found between rank, occupational, race and age groups. When need non-fulfilment scales are added to facets of work life measures, increase in the prediction of overall satisfaction is significant. The need to do work that supports moral values contributed most significantly to overall satisfaction. The most frequent preference was for financial security, followed by recognition, relationships and for achievement.
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Malo, Marie. "La santé psychologique au travail : une modélisation ancrée dans la théorie de la conservation des ressources." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11980.

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Si la santé psychologique au travail retient de plus en plus l’attention de la communauté scientifique et des milieux de pratique, certains aspects du phénomène restent néanmoins à explorer. Notamment, les études se sont peu attardées au fonctionnement de l’individu dans l’organisation, focalisant plutôt sur les expériences subjectives associées au bien-être et à la détresse psychologiques. En outre, l’état des connaissances sur les mécanismes sous-jacents à la santé psychologique au travail demeure embryonnaire. Faute d’écrits sur la question, la compréhension du construit s’avère partielle. Devant ce constat, la présente thèse vise à modéliser la santé psychologique au travail en y intégrant des indicateurs du fonctionnement de l’employé. Dans cette optique, cinq études, regroupées en deux articles, ont été menées auprès de quatre échantillons indépendants (Article 1 : NA = 296, NB = 350, NC = 139; Article 2 : NB = 330, NC = 128; ND = 389). Le premier article a pour objet de développer une conceptualisation et une mesure du fonctionnement de l’individu dans l’organisation. Prenant appui sur les travaux en socialisation organisationnelle et sur la théorie de la conservation des ressources (Hobfoll, 1989, 2001), l’ajustement cognitif au travail est proposé à titre d’indicateur additionnel de la santé psychologique au travail. Des analyses factorielles exploratoires et confirmatoires, de même que des analyses de cohérence interne, d’invariance temporelle et de régression, confirment les qualités psychométriques de l’instrumentation et étayent la validité de l’ajustement cognitif au travail comme indicateur de la santé psychologique au travail. Le second article s’appuie sur la conceptualisation du fonctionnement de l’employé présentée dans le premier article pour tester une modélisation de la santé psychologique au travail. Se fondant sur la théorie de la conservation des ressources (Hobfoll, 1989, 2001), la santé psychologique au travail est modélisée comme un processus incluant quatre indicateurs, soit le bien-être psychologique, la détresse psychologique, l’ajustement cognitif et les réponses comportementales de stress au travail. Deux mécanismes distincts sont mis de l’avant pour expliquer les relations unissant les indicateurs positifs de santé psychologique au travail (c.-à-d., le bien-être psychologique et l’ajustement cognitif) et celles caractérisant les indicateurs négatifs (c.-à-d., la détresse psychologique et les réponses comportementales de stress). Des analyses acheminatoires et d’invariance transculturelle révèlent la présence des deux mécanismes et montrent que, au-delà de l’influence des demandes en emploi, le bien-être psychologique exerce un effet médiateur sur la relation positive entre des ressources personnelles (c.-à-d., optimisme et résilience) et organisationnelle (c.-à-d., climat de travail) et l’ajustement cognitif au travail. Les résultats mettent également en exergue le rôle médiateur de la détresse psychologique sur la relation négative entre les mêmes ressources et les réponses comportementales de stress au travail. Une discussion générale précise la portée des résultats présentés dans le cadre des deux articles.
While psychological health at work is gaining attention from academics and practitioners, certain aspects of the phenomenon need deeper exploration. Notably, scant research has examined individual functioning in the workplace; the majority of studies focused on subjective experiences related to psychological well-being and distress instead. Moreover, little is known about the mechanisms underlying psychological health at work. These shortcomings result in a partial understanding of the construct. In light of these observations, the present thesis aims to develop a model of psychological health at work, integrating indicators of employee functioning. To achieve this goal, five studies divided into two articles were conducted using four independent samples (Article 1: NA = 296, NB = 350, NC = 139; Article 2: NB = 330, NC = 128; ND = 389). The first article proposes a conceptualization and a measurement of individual functioning at work. Building on organizational socialization literature and on conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989, 2001), we conceptualize cognitive adjustment as a psychological health indicator. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, as well as reliability, temporal invariance and regression analyses, confirm the psychometric qualities of the instrument and support the validity of cognitive adjustment at work as, indeed, an indicator of psychological health. Drawing from the conceptualization of employee functioning reported in the first article, the second article tests a model of psychological health at work. Based on conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989, 2001), psychological health at work is conceptualized as a process, which includes four indicators, namely psychological well-being, psychological distress, cognitive adjustment, and behavioural stress responses at work. Two distinct mechanisms are put forward explaining the relations between positive indicators (i.e., psychological well-being and cognitive adjustment), and the relations between negative indicators (i.e., psychological distress and behavioural stress responses). Path and cross-cultural invariance analyses acknowledge both mechanisms, and demonstrate that, beyond the impact of job demands, psychological well-being exercises a mediating effect on the positive relations between personal (i.e., optimism and resilience) and organizational (i.e., work climate) resources, and cognitive adjustment at work. Results also highlight that psychological distress mediates the negative relations between the same resources and behavioural stress responses at work. A general discussion covers in deeper details the implications of the findings emanating from both articles.

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Gerber, Frans Jacobus. "Invloed van organisasieklimaat op werkmotivering." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2188.

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Hierdie navorsing het ten doel om die verband tussen organisasieklimaat en werksmotivering te bepaaL Organisasieklimaat is met die Organisasiediagnosevraelys (ODV) gemeet en werksmolivering is met die Verwagtingsmotiveringsvraelys (VMV) gemeet, 'n skaal wat gefundeer is in die teoretiese model van Edward E Lawler, III, en deur die navorser aangepas is vir die steekproef en deur faktorontleding valideer is. Die interalcsie deur biografiese en organisatoriese veranderlikes (ras, geslag, hierargiese posvlak, werkspan, ouderdom en diensjare) is dear ontleding van variansie en korrelasieontleding ondersoek. AI die korrelasies tussen die hoofdimensies van organisasieklimaat en werksmotivering, met die uitsondering van valensie, ondersteun die navorsingshipoteses met totale organisasieklimaat en totale werlcsmotivering (volgens die Lawler-formule) se korrelasie gelyk aan 0,549 teen die 0,01 peil. Deur stapsgewyse regressie-ontleding is twee dimensies van organisasieklimaat, naamlik taakeienskappe asook bestuur en leierskap, gebruik om totale werksmotivering volgens Lawler se formule te voorspel. Ongeveer 30% van die variansie van werksmotivering is hierdeur voorspel.
The objective of this research is to determine the relationship between organisational climate and work motivation. Organisational climate was measured by the Organisational Diagnostic Questionnaire (ODQ), and work motivation was measured by the Expectancy Motivation Questionnaire (EMQ), a scale based on the model of Edward E. Lawler, III, and validated by means of factor analysis for the population. The interaction of the biographical and organisational variables on the main variables was studied by means of ANOVA as well as correlations. The correlation between total organisational climate and total work motivation (calculated according to the Lawler formula) was 0,549 at the 0,01 level, thus supporting the research hypothesis. By following the stepwise regression analytical procedures, the two dimensions of organisational climate (task characteristics and manager/leadership) used to forecast work motivation (as calculated by the Lawler formula), explained 30% of the variance of work motivation.
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Catenacci-Francois, Lauren. "Learning Agility in Context: Engineers’ Perceptions of Psychologically Safe Climate on Performance." Thesis, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8RF7BFZ.

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Organizations are changing faster than ever underscoring the importance of being learning agile—that is, learning new concepts and skills quickly while integrating learnings from past experiences to new situations in order to be successful (Mitchinson & Morris, 2012). Learning agility has been a topic of interest for almost two decades, and while research to date has demonstrated a positive relationship between learning agility and various performance outcomes (Dries, Vantilborgh, & Pepermans, 2012; Lombard & Eichinger, 2000; Smith, 2015), it remains to be seen whether certain contextual variables enhance, diminish, or altogether change learning agility’s positive impact on performance (DeRue, Ashford, & Myers, 2012). This research examined organizational climate rooted in psychological safety as a contextual factor, or moderator, and how it influences when learning agility leads to high performance. While learning agility and psychologically safe climate were not significant predictors of performance, a marginally significant interaction revealed that when an organization’s climate is perceived as low in psychological safety, those who score lower on learning agility perform worse than highly learning agile individuals. However, counterintuitive findings suggest than when the organization’s climate is perceived as high in psychological safety, those who score lower on learning agility outperform those who score higher on learning agility. Exploratory and post-hoc analyses are used to better understand the data and the organizational context in which the results occurred. Directions for future research are discussed along with implications for organizations.

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Perreault, Michelle E. "Vérification des liens entre les stresseurs, le soutien social, la santé psychologique au travail et la qualité de la relation élève-enseignant." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5481.

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La relation élève-enseignant (REE) est reconnue comme étant optimale lorsqu’elle est fortement chaleureuse et faiblement conflictuelle. Sur le plan empirique, plusieurs évidences montrent que la qualité de la REE est liée significativement à divers indicateurs de la réussite scolaire. De façon générale, celles-ci affirment que plus un élève entretient une relation optimale avec son enseignant, plus ses résultats scolaires sont élevés, plus il adopte des comportements prosociaux, et plus il présente des affects et des comportements positifs envers l’école. Des études précisent également que l’influence de la qualité de la REE est particulièrement importante chez les élèves à risque. Si les effets positifs d’une REE optimale sont bien connus, les facteurs favorisant son émergence sont quant à eux moins bien compris. En fait, bien que certains attributs personnels de l’élève ou de l’enseignant aient été identifiés comme participant significativement à la qualité de la REE, peu d’études ont investigué l’importance des facteurs psychologiques et contextuels dans l’explication de ce phénomène. Souhaitant pallier cette lacune, la présente étude poursuit trois objectifs qui sont: 1) d’examiner les liens entre les stresseurs, le soutien social, la santé psychologique au travail (SPT) et la qualité de la REE; 2) de vérifier l’effet médiateur de la SPT dans la relation entre les stresseurs, le soutien social et la qualité de la REE, et; 3) d’examiner les différences quant aux liens répertoriés auprès d’élèves réguliers et à risque. Afin d’atteindre ces objectifs, 231 enseignants québécois de niveau préscolaire et primaire ont été investigués. Les résultats des analyses montrent que les comportements perturbateurs des élèves en classe prédisent positivement le conflit entre l’enseignant et les élèves à risque. Ils montrent également que le soutien des parents et le soutien du supérieur prédisent respectivement la présence de REE chaleureuses chez les élèves réguliers et à risque. La SPT de l’enseignant prédit quant à elle positivement la présence de REE chaleureuses et négativement la présence de REE conflictuelles. Les résultats de cette recherche montrent aussi que le soutien social affecte indirectement la présence de REE chaleureuses par le biais de la SPT de l’enseignant.
An optimal student-teacher relationship (STR) is generally recognized as being closer and less conflictual. In the scientific documentation, many studies show that the quality of the STR is significantly associated with several indicators of school performance. More precisely, the results of these investigations demonstrate that the more a student share an optimal relationship with his teacher, the higher are his results at tests and exams, the more he adopts prosocial behaviors, and the more he presents positive affects and behaviors towards school and learning. Many studies also show that the influence of the quality of the STR is more important for students at-risk. However, even if the positive effects of an optimal STR on school performance are known, the knowledge about the factors that facilitate its emergence is still very limited. Although some predictors related to personal attributes of students or teachers have been highlighted, few studies have investigated the importance of psychological and contextual predictors of this phenomena. In an attempt to alleviate this deficiency, this research pursues three objectives that are : 1) to verify the relationship between stressors, social support, psychological health at work (PHW) and the quality of the STR; 2) to examine the moderating effect of PHW in the relationship between stressors, social support and the quality of the STR, and; 3) to verify the differences highlighted in the results for regular and at-risk students. In order to verify these three objectives, 231 teachers from the province of Quebec teaching in kindergarten and elementary school have been studied. The results from the analyses show that the disruptive behaviors of students in class predict positively the conflict between teachers and students at-risk. The results also show that social support from parents is positivelly related to closeness for regular students, whereas social support from the director is positivelly related to closeness for students at-risk. Teacher’s PHW also predicts positively closeness and negatively conflict for both regular and at-risk students. The results of the analyses also demonstrate that social support is indirectly related to closeness for regular and at-risk students, through PHW.

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Kossuth, Stephen Patrick. "Team building and salutogenic orientations contextualised in a performance model." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17120.

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The purpose of this research has been to investigate the relationships between team building, salutogenesis and performance. Team building was investigated by focusing on the directive and interactive dimensions of • climate • supervisory support • team work. Salutogenesis was investigated by focusing on the concepts of • sense of coherence • locus of control • self-efficacy. Work performance was investigated by focusing on • performance measurement criteria • self-appraisal as a cognitive mediator between performance and salutogenesis. In the literature survey a performance model was postulated to explain the relationships between team building, salutogenesis and performance. The personality profile of the optimal functioning individual in the context of the performance model was compiled from the personality profiles of the optimal functioning team member, the optimal functioning individual and the optimal performing individual. In the empirical investigation a sample (N = 245) of mine employees completed a battery of questionnaires using computerised data collection. The battery was subjected to item-test correlations, Cronbach alpha coefficient measurements and factor analyses, to establish the reliability and structure of each questionnaire. lntercorrelations were calculated and analysed to test the relationships between the dimensions, and concepts. Following this, the factor analysis of a five factor model established the relationships between the dimensions and concepts of team building, salutogenesis and performance. Finally, LISREL-analyses were performed to test the conceptual structure of the relationships. The empirical findings indicate that team building forms a construct based on directive and interactive dimension of climate, supervisory support and team work. Salutogenesis forms a construct and it includes the incorporation of work performance as a concept of salutogenic orientations. The relationship between the constructs was confirmed using LIS REL-analysis, thus validating the integration of the dimensions and properties within each construct into the properties of a performance model; and the personality profiles within each construct into the personality profile of the optimal functioning individual. The empirical results were integrated with the literature review. Team building and salutogenic orientations are integrated into a performance model which explains the relationships between the work environment, the behaviour of the individual and his/her performance within the context of the work environment.
Industrial and Organisational Psychology
D.Litt. et Phil. (Industrial Psychology)

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Macedo, Irene Cachapa de. "Como o clima psicológico e o bem-estar afectivo no trabalho explicam as intenções de abandono das organizações." Master's thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/1153.

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Classificação do Journal of Economic Literature: • M00-General • M12-Personnel Management
O estudo mostra como as percepções do clima organizacional autentizótico e o bem-estar afectivo no trabalho explicam as intenções de abandono das organizações. Foi inquirida uma amostra de 144 indivíduos, trabalhando em seis empresas do sector agro-alimentar a operar em Portugal. Os principais resultados da investigação são os seguintes: 1. As percepções do clima organizacional autentizótico explicam 39% da variância do bemestar afectivo no trabalho; 2. A dimensão do clima organizacional autentizótico com maior poder preditivo do bem-estar afectivo no trabalho é o espírito de camaradagem; 3. As percepções do clima organizacional autentizótico explicam 40% da variância do prazer, 37% da variância do entusiasmo, 30% do conforto, 29% da serenidade e 5% do vigor; 4. A dimensão do clima organizacional autentizótico com maior poder preditivo das intenções de abandono é a oportunidade de desenvolvimento/aprendizagem; 5. O bem-estar afectivo no trabalho explica 34% da variância das intenções de abandono; 6. As dimensões do bem-estar afectivo com maior poder preditivo das intenções de abandono são o entusiasmo, o vigor e a serenidade.
The study discusses how the perceptions of authentizotic psychological climates and affective well-being at work, explain turnover intentions in the organization. The sample comprises 144 employees from six organizations of food industry operating in Portugal. The main findings include the following points: 1. The perceptions of authentizotic psychological climates explain 39% of the variance of affective well-being at work; 2. The dimension of authentizotic climate with major predictive value of affective well-being at work is the spirit of camaradie; 3. The perceptions of authentizotic psychological climates explain variance of the dimensions of well-being at work as follows: 40% of pleasure, 37% of enthusiasm, 30% of comfort, 29% of placidity and 5% of vigor; 4. The dimension of authentizotic climates with major predictive value on turnover intentions is the opportunity for learning and personal development; 5. The affective well-being at work explain 34% of the variance on turnover intentions; 6. The dimensions of affective well-being at work with major predictive value on turnover intentions are enthusiasm, vigor and placidity.

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