Organisational climate and employee health outcomes: A systematic review

Source avec lien : Safety Science, 118, 10/1/2019. 10.1016/j.ssci.2019.05.052

Le climat organisationnel, en particulier le climat de sécurité, a été documenté comme un élément crucial dans la promotion de la santé et de la sécurité au travail. Cependant, la plupart des études antérieures se sont davantage concentrées sur les questions de sécurité (p. ex., blessures et accidents) plutôt que sur les résultats pour la santé (p. ex., maladies, stress, etc.). Il n’existe pas non plus d’étude exhaustive permettant de comprendre la relation organisationnelle climat-santé entre les différents niveaux d’analyse, les différentes sources de données et les différentes procédures d’analyse. Nous avons effectué un examen systématique pour examiner les contributions antérieures des chercheurs au climat organisationnel et à la santé.

Organisational climate, particularly safety climate, has been documented as a crucial element in promoting occupational health and safety. However, most previous studies have focused more on safety issues (e.g., injuries and accidents) rather than health outcomes (e.g., illnesses, stress, etc). A comprehensive review is also lacking in relation to understanding the organisational climate–health relationship between different levels of analysis, different data sources and different analytical procedures. We conducted a systematic review to investigate previous scholarly contributions to organisational climate and health. The reviewed articles were obtained from three databases: ISI Web of Knowledge, PsycINFO and EBSCOHost Academic Premier Search. After reading the abstracts and full texts, we included 56 articles in our review. We found that the influence of organisational climate on employee health has been supported in prior research. However, hypotheses at the individual level are more frequently supported than those at the organisational level. Even though most studies analysed self-reported data and, thus, possibly suffered from common method bias, half of the studies were explicitly or implicitly trying to reduce the bias. Studies with and without remedies for reducing common method bias yielded similar results, suggesting that common method bias has little impact on organisational climate research. Overall, almost no differences were found among the different organisational climate constructs. The current review includes several recommendations for future research.

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