Examining the Impact of Organizational Health and Psychological Safety on Stress Responses and Job Satisfaction

Abstract

To ensure mental health support facilities at the workplace, it is important to focus on organizational productivity and the mental health of workers. However, the group analysis in Japanese stress check system does not fully assess the issues among individuals and organizations. To counter this problem, a survey was administered to employees (n = 391) working for a food processing company (Company A). Based on the "organizational health model" for balancing workers' organizational productivity and promotion of their mental health, we examined the relationships among "respect for lifestyle, " "shared goals, " and "organizational future, " as organizational factors, "psychological safety, " as a team factor, and "stress response" and "job satisfaction" as individual factors by employing Structural Equation Modeling. The results of this examination show that the three organizational factors reduce a sense of fatigue and increase job satisfaction through psychological safety. This suggests that the group analysis based on the organizational health model may increase organizational productivity and reduce a sense of fatigue at the workplace. Further, we discuss the significance of this group analysis and the limitations of this study.