TY - JOUR
T1 - A dispositional approach to psychological climate
T2 - Relationships between interpersonal harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety
AU - Wang, Jie
AU - Leung, Kwok
AU - Zhou, Fan
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - This study examined the dispositional antecedents of a climate at the individual level, psychological climate for communication safety. The impact of two interpersonal harmony motives, harmony enhancement and disintegration avoidance, on psychological climate for communication safety, innovative performance and the moderated mediated processes associated with job autonomy were examined in a survey study in China. Results showed that harmony enhancement was positively related to innovative performance through psychological climate for communication safety. Moreover, job autonomy moderated the relationship between harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety. Harmony enhancement was more strongly associated with psychological climate for communication safety when job autonomy was low. The relationship between disintegration avoidance and psychological climate for communication safety was positive when job autonomy was high, but negative when job autonomy was low. Conditional indirect effects consistent with these interaction effects were also found. © The Author(s) 2013.
AB - This study examined the dispositional antecedents of a climate at the individual level, psychological climate for communication safety. The impact of two interpersonal harmony motives, harmony enhancement and disintegration avoidance, on psychological climate for communication safety, innovative performance and the moderated mediated processes associated with job autonomy were examined in a survey study in China. Results showed that harmony enhancement was positively related to innovative performance through psychological climate for communication safety. Moreover, job autonomy moderated the relationship between harmony motives and psychological climate for communication safety. Harmony enhancement was more strongly associated with psychological climate for communication safety when job autonomy was low. The relationship between disintegration avoidance and psychological climate for communication safety was positive when job autonomy was high, but negative when job autonomy was low. Conditional indirect effects consistent with these interaction effects were also found. © The Author(s) 2013.
KW - communication safety
KW - harmony
KW - innovative performance
KW - job autonomy
KW - psychological climate
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U2 - 10.1177/0018726713495423
DO - 10.1177/0018726713495423
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 0018-7267
VL - 67
SP - 489
EP - 515
JO - Human Relations
JF - Human Relations
IS - 4
ER -