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Introduction: Maintaining and sustaining safety is extremely critical in high-reliability organizations. Upward voice contributes to a proactive approach to safety and allows the early identification of potential problems before they cascade into tragic consequences. Despite its relevance, research tends to focus on the antecedents of upward voice...

Recientemente, nuestra sociedad ha presenciado una notable expansión y transformación impulsada por la Inteligencia Artificial (IA). Una tecnología que ha atraído considerable atención es el ChatGPT, lo que ha generado cierta alarma en el ámbito de la educación al observarse que numerosos estudiantes optan por utilizar esta herramienta sin ser cons...

Mindful organizing, a critical capability within high-reliability organizations like air traffic control, encompasses the ability of team members to foresee, identify, rectify errors, and adapt to unforeseen occurrences. This study primarily investigates the influence of empowering leadership on mindful organizing among air traffic controllers , ex...

Mindful organizing is the collective capability of teams to anticipate, detect, and contain early signs of emerging problems, act proactively, and recover quickly if unexpected events and errors occur. The present study aimed to add to our currently limited understanding of antecedents of mindful organizing: empowering leadership, safety culture, a...

Acquiring intercultural competences is critical in order to avoid prejudice and increase tolerance in the global workforce. This case study describes and evaluates a learning experience designed to develop intercultural competences. Cross-cultural leadership theories were incorporated into the syllabus of a Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP)...

Open Access: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2214-6296(21)00467-9 In this essay we investigate the “lessons learned” within the domain of human and organizational factors (HOF) from operating European nuclear power plants (NPPs) in a fifty-year perspective. Specifically, we consider learning processes at an industry level that aim at prom...

This service learning collaboration combines community service with academic learning. With that purpose, a collaboration network was created between the University of Valencia and Escola Gavina, a preschool, primary and secondary school. The objective was twofold, first, it attempts to give postgraduate students the opportunity to carry out a diag...

Improving safety culture and safety performance is a constant concern for companies operating in high-risk environments. For almost two decades, IDOCAL (the Research Institute of Personnel Psychology, Organizational Development and Quality of Working Life) has been contributing to advancing our understanding of these important concepts through theo...

Previous research has rarely addressed trust in leadership at the organizational level. This study addresses this research gap by examining the influence of the magnitude of organizational trust in leadership and consensus about this trust on job satisfaction. The magnitude refers to shared trust in leadership among organizational members, whereas...

Las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación posibilitan los intercambios virtuales y favorecen así la internacionalización de la educación. Cabe destacar que los intercambios virtuales son una forma más inclusiva de acercar la internacionalización de la educación ya que es una alternativa accesible a la mayoría del estudiantado. Este trabajo describe...

A supportive upward voice environment is critical in nuclear power plants in order to provide energy in a sustainable manner. In high–reliability organizations, front–line employees’ suggestions and concerns enable the early identification of potential problems that might have catastrophic consequences (e.g., a nuclear accident). Despite this, prev...

Road transport safety is a major concern across Europe due to the human and socio-economic costs associated with work-related traffic accidents. Traditional approaches have adopted regulatory and technical measures to prevent road accidents leaving aside the organizational factors that might contribute to road transport safety. However, contemporar...

Abstract Professional drivers are at risk of poor well-being, thus, research on how to prevent this status has valuable practical implications. Psychological safety climate, individual perceptions of the safety climate, and time pressure are relevant antecedents of drivers’ well-being. Psychological safety climate acts as a frame of reference for p...

Introduction: A safety-conscious work environment allows high-reliability organizations to be proactive regarding safety and enables employees to feel free to report any concern without fear of retaliation. Currently, research on the antecedents to safety-conscious work environments is scarce. Method: Structural equation modeling was applied to...

Safety is a key aspect for the continuity of nuclear energy as one of the most widely used energy options worldwide for producing electricity. However, previous studies have shown that the nuclear industry needs to meet social, technological, normative, environmental, economic, and organizational challenges. Due to this need, this study attempts to...

Job stressors at the occupational level have become a relevant issue in the field of stress research. Along these lines, the Healthy Work Organization model and the Job Demands-Control model have emphasized the relevance of job stressors defined as a collective construct such as time pressure. Nevertheless, empirical evidence on the potential negat...

Patient safety culture (PSC) has been postulated to have a significant influence on the quality of health care. This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the TUKU PSC questionnaire. The questionnaire development was based on the view that patient safety constitutes not only the absence of adverse events, but also the presence of ce...

Previous research on organizational culture has mainly adopted a realistic approach when describing organizations' culture. Nonetheless, this approach does not take into consideration relevant factors that influence the process of describing and analyzing organizational culture. This study aims to discuss about critical aspects that conform organiz...

A great amount of research has illustrated the evident prevalence of job insecurity in working life and its harmful outcomes for employees and organizations. Some authors have identified factors that can reduce this negative influence. However, up until now, most of these factors have only been studied at an individual level, without taking into ac...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between both job insecurity and fairness and employees' attitudes (job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intention). Moreover, of even greater interest, it aims to test whether fairness mitigates the negative correlates associated with job insecurity. Design/metho...

As employers respond to intensive global competition through the deregulation of labor, job insecurity has become a widespread problem. It has been shown to have significant health impacts in a growing number of workers, but less is known about its social distribution, the mechanisms through which it may act, and the moderating effects of gender, s...

Purpose This paper aims to offer a typology of temporary workers, based on their motives for accepting their work arrangement, which includes voluntary, involuntary and stepping‐stone motives, and relate this typology to various individual and work‐related variables. Design/methodology/approach Latent class analysis of 645 European workers was use...

Purpose – This paper aims to offer a typology of temporary workers, based on their motives for accepting their work arrangement, which includes voluntary, involuntary and stepping-stone motives, and relate this typology to various individual and work-related variables. Design/methodology/approach – Latent class analysis of 645 European workers was...

RESUMEN La presente tesis estudia las implicaciones que tienen el trabajo temporal y la percepción de inseguridad laboral sobre el bienestar del empleado. Con frecuencia se asume que tanto el trabajo temporal como la percepción de inseguridad laboral tienen efectos negativos sobre el bienestar, no obstante, la literatura no muestra resultados concl...

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The general aim of the PSYCONES project was to clarify the association between employment contracts and employee well-being and also company performance. The psychological contract was assumed to have a critical intervening role affecting these relationships. Eight partners have cooperated in conducting of the project: Sweden (coordinator), Germany...

La presente tesis estudia las implicaciones que tienen el trabajo temporal y la percepción de inseguridad laboral sobre el bienestar del empleado. Con frecuencia se asume que tanto el trabajo temporal como la percepción de inseguridad laboral tienen efectos negativos sobre el bienestar, no obstante, la literatura no muestra resultados concluyentes....

In the present paper the role of the state of the psychological contract to predict psychological health results is studied in a sample of 385 employees of different Spanish companies. Results indicate that the state of the psychological contract significantly predicts life satisfaction, work-family conflict and well-being beyond the prediction pro...

Over the past few decades, the number of flexible workers has increased, a situation that has captured researchers’ attention. Traditionally, temporary workers were portrayed as being disadvantaged compared to permanent workers. But in the new era, temporary workers cannot be treated as a homogeneous group. This study distinguishes between four typ...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es explorar si existen diferencias en el contenido del contrato psicológico en función del tipo de contrato y del tipo de gestión empresarial (pública o privada). Se realizaron ANOVAS 2 x 2 para contrastar las diferencias en las obligaciones del empleador y del empleado respectivamente en función del tipo de contrat...