As mentioned in the introduction, the prior studies have classified psychological safety in several components, including physical risk- psychological safety (Amponsah-Tawiah et al., 2013), energy-psychological safety (Babin & Boles, 1996),inner-psychological safety (Brown & Leigh, 1996) and team-psychological safety (Edmondson, 1999). Whilst some prior studies have examined the components of psychological safety, those studies have overlooked the link between these components. Hence, this study uses all dimensions of psychological safety as follows.
First, physical risk-psychological safety is a safety feeling which is dealing with physical risk conditions such as noise, hazard and etc., (Amponsah-Tawiah et al., 2013). Physical risk psychological safety relate to other types of psychological safety, such as energy safety (Walker and Hutton, 2006, Wu et al., 2008, Lu and Tsai, 2008, Makin and Winder, 2008, Beus et al., 2010).
On the other hand, Walker and Hutton (2006) provided qualitative evidence for the existence …show more content…
According to Walker and Hutton (2006), there are several physical safety obligation items that should be provided by employers for their employees. This safety obligation will affect the creativity of employee in his/her job. This study is not only discussed about employer obligations but also about employees’ obligation and it is shown in a psychological contract between both of particular sides. However, Wachter and Yorio (2013) reveal that the safety management system effectiveness depends on the levels of safety focused cognitive and emotional engagement of the workers. Thus, it means that the organization is not only invest in the safety management system but also in employees’ education to make a system workers’