A Longitudinal Study of an Intervention to Improve Road Safety Climate: Climate as an Organizational Boundary Spanner

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Naveh, Eitan; Katz-Navon, Tal
• 署名单位: Technion Israel Institute of Technology; Reichman University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0037613
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 216-226
• 关键词: organizational climate; intervention; organization boundaries; spillover; work-family interface

摘要

This study presents and tests an intervention to enhance organizational climate and expands existing conceptualization of organizational climate to include its influence on employee behaviors outside the organization's physical boundaries. In addition, by integrating the literatures of climate and work-family interface, the study explored climate spillover and crossover from work to the home domain. Focusing on an applied practical problem within organizations, we investigated the example of road safety climate and employees' and their families' driving, using a longitudinal study design of road safety intervention versus control groups. Results demonstrated that the intervention increased road safety climate and decreased the number of traffic violation tickets and that road safety climate mediated the relationship between the intervention and the number of traffic violation tickets. Road safety climate spilled over to the family domain but did not cross over to influence family members' driving.