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https://doi.org/10.30924/mjcmi.31.1.4
Leaders are providers: the role of leadership as an antecedent to psychological safety in the job demands–resources model
Antun Palanović
; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Ivana Lučića 3, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Sažetak
Starting from the Job Demands –Resources framework, this study proposes that effective leadership is related to psychological safety, which is associated with higher work engagement, which in turn is associated with better work performance. In a cross-sectional survey of 287 employees, participants rated their supervisors’ leadership (transformational leadership and a situational judgment test of competency in motivating subordinates), as well as their own psychological safety, work engagement, task performance, and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB). Across all models, leadership was indirectly associated with task performance and OCB in a serial mediation model via psychological safety as the first mediator and work engagement as the second mediator. Although the cross-sectional design limits causal inference, the findings contribute to both leadership theory and practice by identifying psychological safety as a job resource, and more importantly, by clarifying leadership’s role as an antecedent that helps create the conditions for engagement rather than merely functioning as another resource within the model.
Ključne riječi
Leadership; Psychological safety; Work engagement; Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) model
Hrčak ID:
348353
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Datum izdavanja:
25.2.2026.
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