AUTHOR=Zadow Amy , Loh May Young , Dollard Maureen Frances , Mathisen Gro Ellen , Yantcheva Bella 

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

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1082283

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1082283

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=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 workplace work engagement promoting higher levels of computer-based radical and incremental creativity, innovation and work performance, employees in a software engineering firm (N = 29, 86 observations) completed a weekly questionnaire for four consecutive weeks. Individual-perceived PSC was positively related to future weekly individual fluctuations of creativity (radical and incremental), work engagement and job performance. At the between-person level 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 in digital environments by elucidating the individual perceived PSC–creativity relationship and suggesting PSC systems as meaningful antecedents to digital work performance.