TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The importance of organizational climates in enhancing employees’ job performance is well studied in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of psychosocial safety climate (PSC) and team climate on job performance, particularly through job engagement, by using a multilevel survey. The study also predicted that only PSC (and not team climate) predicted job resources (i.e. role clarity and performance feedback).Design/methodology/approach A total of 412 employees from 44 teams (72.6 per cent response rate) in Malaysian private organizations participated in the current study.Findings Research findings revealed that performance feedback and role clarity mediate the relationship between PSC and job engagement, and that there is no direct effect between the variables, team climate, and job resources. As expected, the study also discovered that job engagement mediates the relationship between PSC and team climate related to job performance.Practical implications This paper suggests the importance of PSC as the precursor to better working conditions (i.e. job resources) and to indirectly boosting employees’ engagement and job performance.Originality/value The study compared two distinctive organizational climate constructs that affect the different types of job resources using multilevel approach within the Asian context.
VL  - 46
IS  - 5
SN  - 0048-3486
DO  - 10.1108/PR-01-2016-0003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-01-2016-0003
AU  - Lee Michelle Chin Chin
AU  - Idris Mohd. Awang
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Psychosocial safety climate versus team climate: The distinctiveness between the two organizational climate constructs
T2  - Personnel Review
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 988
EP  - 1003
Y2  - 2024/05/07
ER  -