- Author:
Sadaf Khalijian
- Institution:
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
- Author:
Golamreza Shams
- Institution:
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
- Author:
Mohammad Hasan Pardakhtchi
- Institution:
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
- Author:
Mohammad Mirkamali
- Institution:
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
65-80
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.23.73.3.05
- PDF:
tner/202303/tner7305.pdf
The primary purpose of the research was to investigate the effect of psychological safety on the silent behaviour of academic staff with the mediating role of happiness. This research was descriptive-correlational regarding the data collection method. The statistical population was all employees (administrators and teachers) of public schools in Tehran, of whom 373 persons were selected. The questionnaires included a “psychological safety” questionnaire by Edmondson (1999), a researcher-made questionnaire on “silence behaviour” according to the Vakola and Bouradas questionnaire (2005), and “happiness” by Oxford (1990). Descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equations modelling tests) were used to analyse the data. The results showed a positive and significant relationship between psychological safety and the employees’ happiness. Findings of the structural equations modelling indicated that the direct effect of psychological safety on silence was -0.61, and psychological safety with the mediation of happiness reduced to silence by -0.77. It could be concluded from the results of this research that happiness has an important effect on reducing organisational silence, and this research would provide a theoretical reference for managers to take comprehensive measures to improve happiness in the organisation.
- Author:
Tomasz R. Dębowski
- E-mail:
tomasz.debowski@uwr.edu.pl
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Polska
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9933-8911
- Author:
Michał Lubicz Miszewski
- E-mail:
m.lubiczmiszewski@gmail.com
- Institution:
Akademia Wojsk Lądowych im. Generała Tadeusza Kościuszki, Polska
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1426-7422
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
115-130
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2024.02.06
- PDF:
kie/144/kie14406.pdf
Challenges to teachers’ psychological safety in the workplace – pilot studies in the municipality of Strzelin
The study aims to show how teachers’ interactions with students, parents or legal guardians, and colleagues in the workplace affect educators’ sense of psychological safety. To this end, the survey and in-depth interviews were carried out among teachers of public educational institutions in the municipality of Strzelin (in the Lower Silesian Province). A noticeable scarcity of studies on the aggressive acts directed against educators and their consequences was the inspiration to undertake them. Publications on increasing the levels of physical, psychological, sexual, and economic aggression among students are much more common. The obtained research results show that many teachers feel “left behind” in the face of the aggression they experience, expressing the view that they cannot count on help and understanding from either the Ministry of Education and Science or their immediate superiors. Furthermore, the measurements showed that educators need to be more adequately assimilated knowledge of the legal protection to which they are entitled and are also unaware of ministerial initiatives to provide psychological support for teachers. The conducted pilot study argues in favour of the desirability of pursuing subsequent in-depth research addressing the issue of teachers’ psychological safety.