Organizational culture: effect on psychological safety mediated by trust across 18 societies

Ratan Dheer; Jane Tong; Len Treviño; David A. Ralston; Brian Tjemkes; Luis Sigala  Paparella; Marian  Crowley-Henry; Calvin George  Burns; Fabian Jintae Froese; Gabrielle  Poeschl; Oswaldo  Morales; Erna Szabo; Pingping Fu; Narasimhan Srinivasan; Mario Molteni; Arif Nazir Butt; Olivier Furrer; Fidel León-Darder; Maria Kangasniemi-Ha; Ajantha Dharmasiri; Ruth Alas

doi:10.5465/AMPROC.2023.12083abstract

Organizational culture: effect on psychological safety mediated by trust across 18 societies

Ratan Dheer, Jane Tong, Len Treviño, David A. Ralston, Brian Tjemkes, Luis Sigala Paparella, Marian Crowley-Henry, Calvin George Burns, Fabian Jintae Froese, Gabrielle Poeschl, Oswaldo Morales, Erna Szabo, Pingping Fu, Narasimhan Srinivasan, Mario Molteni, Arif Nazir Butt, Olivier Furrer, Fidel León-Darder, Maria Kangasniemi-Ha, Ajantha DharmasiriRuth Alas

Malaysia School of Business

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Abstract

We assess the direct effect of organizational culture and the mediating effect of trust-in-top-management on employees’ psychological safety perceptions using 2,451 observations from 18 global societies. Our hierarchical linear modeling analyses suggest that clan and adhocracy cultures levy a significantly stronger effect on psychological safety than market and hierarchy cultures, and trust-in-top-management mediates this effect. Further, we examine how macro-environment factors, namely individualism, and governance quality, condition the impact of trust-in-top-management on psychological safety. We found a significant cross-level moderating effect of individualism and governance quality on psychological safety. Our fine-grained analysis of individualism indicates that its effect stems mainly from the achievement values sub-dimension of individualism but not from its power and innovation values sub-dimension. These findings contribute significantly to the psychological safety and international management research domains. We discuss implications and advance directions for future research

Original language	English
Number of pages	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.12083abstract
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2023: Putting the Worker Front and Center - Boston, United States of America Duration: 4 Aug 2023 → 8 Aug 2023 Conference number: 83rd https://journals.aom.org/toc/amproc/2023/1

Conference

Conference	Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2023
Abbreviated title	AoM 2023
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Boston
Period	4/08/23 → 8/08/23
Internet address	https://journals.aom.org/toc/amproc/2023/1

Keywords

Pshchological safety
Organisational culture
Cross-cultural psychology
Multilevel analysis

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Dheer, R., Tong, J., Treviño, L., Ralston, D. A., Tjemkes, B., Paparella, L. S., Crowley-Henry, M., Burns, C. G., Froese, F. J., Poeschl, G., Morales, O., Szabo, E., Fu, P., Srinivasan, N., Molteni, M., Butt, A. N., Furrer, O., León-Darder, F., Kangasniemi-Ha, M., ... Alas, R. (2023). Organizational culture: effect on psychological safety mediated by trust across 18 societies. Abstract from Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.12083abstract

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Dheer, R, Tong, J, Treviño, L, Ralston, DA, Tjemkes, B, Paparella, LS, Crowley-Henry, M, Burns, CG, Froese, FJ, Poeschl, G, Morales, O, Szabo, E, Fu, P, Srinivasan, N, Molteni, M, Butt, AN, Furrer, O, León-Darder, F, Kangasniemi-Ha, M, Dharmasiri, A & Alas, R 2023, 'Organizational culture: effect on psychological safety mediated by trust across 18 societies', Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2023, Boston, United States of America, 4/08/23 - 8/08/23. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.12083abstract

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