Paweł Jurek , Michał Olech , Ali Afsharian , Maureen F. Dollard
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Abstract
Purpose
This study validates the Polish version of the Psychosocial Safety Climate Scale (PSC-12-PL) by examining its reliability, factor structure, and associations with key workplace outcomes (organizational identification, task engagement, organizational citizenship behaviors, intention to quit), as well as communal (prioritizing cooperation and collective well-being) and agentic (focused on achievement and competition) workplace climates. Assessing PSC, the organizational climate for employee psychological health and psychosocial safety, is crucial as it directly impacts employee well-being and productivity.
Method
Data were collected from three samples of Polish employees (N = 664, N = 1163, and N = 211) covering both individual- and team-level perspectives. Methods included item analysis, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), reliability assessment, measurement invariance testing, correlation analyses, and multilevel modeling. Variables assessed varied by sample.
Findings
CFA confirmed the PSC-12-PL’s four-factor structure with high internal consistency. The scale demonstrated measurement invariance across job positions, organization sizes, and time points (tested in Samples 1 and 2). It correlated strongly with communal workplace climate, marginally with agentic climate, and was linked to higher organizational identification, task engagement, and citizenship behaviors, and lower intention to quit. Multilevel analyses (Sample 3) revealed that both individual- and team-level PSC predicted greater task engagement and organizational citizenship.
Conclusion
The PSC-12-PL is a reliable and valid tool for assessing PSC in Polish workplaces. This multisample, multilevel validation supports its use in research and practice aimed at promoting employee well-being and positive organizational functioning.
期刊介绍:
Safety Science is multidisciplinary. Its contributors and its audience range from social scientists to engineers. The journal covers the physics and engineering of safety; its social, policy and organizational aspects; the assessment, management and communication of risks; the effectiveness of control and management techniques for safety; standardization, legislation, inspection, insurance, costing aspects, human behavior and safety and the like. Papers addressing the interfaces between technology, people and organizations are especially welcome.