Zadow Amy, Loh May Young, Dollard Maureen Frances, Mathisen Gro Ellen, Yantcheva Bella
Psychosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory, Centre for Workplace Excellence, Justice and Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Front Psychol. 2023 Apr 6;14:1082283. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1082283. eCollection 2023.
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.
在面临第四次工业革命的技术环境中，创造力对于竞争优势至关重要。然而，现有的关于创造力的研究很少涉及有利于员工心理健康的氛围，即心理社会安全氛围（PSC），如何能进一步促进数字环境中工作场所创造力、创新和绩效的增长。
为了研究个体感知的PSC如何影响后续的工作投入，从而促进更高水平的基于计算机的激进和渐进式创造力、创新以及工作绩效，一家软件工程公司的员工（n = 29，86次观察）连续4周每周完成一份问卷。
在个体层面，PSC与未来每周个体创造力（激进和渐进式）、工作投入和工作绩效的平均波动呈正相关。此外，每周的工作投入与未来的创造力（激进和渐进式）相关。工作投入还在个体层面上中介了PSC与未来创造力（激进和渐进式）之间的关系。PSC不能预测创新。
本研究通过阐明个体感知的PSC与创造力的关系，并提出PSC系统作为数字工作绩效的有意义的前因，为PSC、创造力和工作绩效的理论做出了贡献。
