Creating a Sustainable Workplace Environment: Influence of Workplace Safety Climate on Chinese Healthcare Employees' Presenteeism from the Perspective of Affect and Cognition
Based on the stimulus organism response theory and cognitive affective personality system theory, this paper explores how the theoretical model of the workplace safety climate (WSC) influences presenteeism. Affect based trust and cognition based trust are assessed, and the situational role of organization formalization is examined. Using a time lagged research design, data from 396 healthcare employees were gathered and multiple regression and bootstrapping were used to test each hypothesis. The results show that: (1) WSC significantly reduces presenteeism. (2) Both affect based trust and cognition based trust mediate the relationship between WSC and presenteeism. Affect based trust exerts a complete mediating role, while cognition based trust exerts a partial mediating role. (3) Cognition based trust completely mediates the relationship between affect based trust and presenteeism. (4) Organization formalization exerts a positive moderating effect on the relationship between WSC and affect based trust. However, it exerts no significant moderating effect on the relationship between WSC and cognition based trust. This study overcame the single research perspective. Combined with organizational, work related, and person related factors, the internal logic of the impact of WSC on the decision making process in presenteeism was identified. The research results provide practical information for enterprises to create a sustainable organizational environment, reduce risks related to human resources, and effectively manage organizational health.
Sustainability