Effect of psychosocial safety climate and organizational justice on affective commitment: A study in the Algarve hotel sector during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Through the lens of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, this study aimed to analyze how psychosocial safety climate and organizational justice were related to: (a) work engagement through positive psychological capital (PsyCap); and (b) affective commitment through work engagement, in a sample of 217 hospitality workers of the Algarve (Portugal). Using structural equation modeling (SEM), it was observed that PsyCap partially mediated the relationship between organizational justice and work engagement, and that work engagement partially mediated the association between psychosocial safety climate and organizational justice, and affective commitment. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.

Keywords:

• COVID-19
• hotel employees
• job demands-resources
• positive psychological capital
• work engagement

Additional information

Funding

This paper was financed by National Funds provided by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the project UIDB/04020/2020.