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Developing psychosocial safety climate in a global manufacturing company

This study investigates developing the psychosocial safety climate in manufacturing companies in Sweden, by offering insights into following questions: How can organizations work to promote a positive psychosocial safety climate? & How can change management possibly help to develop a psychosocial safety climate? The study employed a qualitative research strategy, specifically a case study, which included various interviews. The study investigated three different departments consisting of office-based personnel. The topics emphasized in this study are psychosocial hazards, psychosocial safety climate, and the factors that help in developing the psychosocial safety climate. Moreover, the topic of leadership in relation to developing psychosocial safety climate, and change management as a tool that may help in developing psychosocial safety climate were also highlighted. The study concluded that: leadership & management is the key factor in promoting a positive psychosocial safety climate, since it impacts other factors investigated in the study, supportive policies, effective communication, work design, training & awareness, and support, resources & employee participation. Moreover, while viewing the development of psychosocial safety climate as a change, three phases with unique activities in each are essential to achieve the goal of a positive psychosocial safety climate. The phases investigated are planning, implementing and reinforcing.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mdh-63437
Date January 2023
CreatorsKiumgyan, Nushig, Dawoud, Arej
PublisherMälardalens universitet, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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