The Significance of Leader Transgression for the Psychological Safety of Employees with a High Level of Sensory Sensitivity

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• Autorzy: Milena Gojny-Zbierowska
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Purpose: The psychological safety of employees is a state that has a positive effect on the efficiency of their work and the effectiveness of the entire organisation. Events bringing a feeling of danger that are outside the control of us as individuals, that is the pandemic and now the war beyond our eastern border, have decreased the sense of safety in whole societies. Such a situation gives rise to the need to identify the conditions that shape psychological safety so that they can be intentionally modelled within the organizations. The purpose of this paper is to present the analysis of the individual conditions that impact the level of psychological safety when facing the transgressive behaviour of the leader. Design/methodology/approach: This article is theoretical and presents the results of literature analysis. Findings: The result of the analysis is a proposed relationship between a superior's transgression and an employee's psychological safety, along with the moderating role of the employee's sensory processing sensitivity, and the locus of control. Practical implications: A proposal has been presented here for reducing the effect of a leader's transgressive behaviour (taking into account the dimensions of severity and frequency) on employees' psychological safety. HRM practices implementing a strategy of inducing psychological safety should take into account protection of employee limits in order to reduce the possibility of transgressive behaviour occurring. It is also important to create optimal working conditions for people with raised sensory processing sensitivity. Originality/value: The paper addresses the question of individual conditions of a sense of safety based on an identified research gap. Recent years have seen an increase in interest among researchers in the topic of employee psychological safety, its antecedents and its consequences for behaviours within an organisation. The current situation is unprecedented and have decreased the sense of safety so the discussion presented in the paper is original and has a great value.(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Industrial psychology; Business psychology; Leader in the organization

PL

Psychologia pracy; Psychologia biznesu; Lider w organizacji

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• Strony: 97--107

Twórcy

autor

Milena Gojny-Zbierowska

• University of Economics in Katowice

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DOI

10.29119/1641-3466.2022.164.7