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Development of a General Organizational Climate Scale



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    Objective: A number of studies have shown a relationship between organizational climate perceptions (e.g., safety and violence prevention) and injuries, accidents, and acts of violence in the workplace. To date, the literature has treated safety climate and violence prevention climate as separate constructs that predict different workplace outcomes. Safety climate is concerned with exposure to workplace accidents and injuries, while violence prevention climate is concerned with workplace physical and/or verbal aggression. Emerging research indicates that injury and violence exposure are related. The purpose of this study was to create a generalized organizational climate scale that measures organizational safety and violence prevention climate without focusing on a particular facet. Methods: The sample consists of 114 employed participants who were recruited online through an electronic participant pool at a large public university in the southeastern U.S. Students completed our measure of general workplace climate and measures of safety compliance, reported accidents, job satisfaction, experienced incivility, aggression, and interpersonal conflict. Results: Our general climate scale was significantly related to one's compliance to safety procedures, job satisfaction, experienced incivility, experienced aggression, and experienced interpersonal conflict. Conclusion: Overall, the results of this study suggest that a general organizational climate scale is suitable to measure both an organization's promotion of safety and prevention of violence in the workplace. The results of this study support the use of a single unified scale to measure both facets of workplace climate when differential predictions between constructs are not being investigated. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • Publisher:
    University of South Florida (USF)
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Abstract or Summary
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    10
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20064165
  • Citation:
    Sunshine ERC Research Poster Session/USF Health Research Day, February 20-22, 2014, Tampa, Florida. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida (USF), 2014 Feb; :10
  • Contact Point Address:
    Derek Hutchinson, USF Sunshine ERC Occupational Health Psychology Program.
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2014
  • Performing Organization:
    Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20050701
  • Source Full Name:
    Sunshine ERC Research Poster Session/USF Health Research Day, February 20-22, 2014, Tampa, Florida
  • End Date:
    20290630
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:7b57d0764036b5e9c88e813c31b0246ac07177e81f1c32e6c2ea0ada8b7684feca34313c6b6d9777b966898d06a2d1d580cca39b18ed1d41ba9e03f053720a25
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