Psychosocial Risk Management and Psychological Attachment: Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

摘要

Interestingly, awareness and action in developing countries about psychosocial risks is far off the successes experience in developed economies. Psychosocial risk places huge cost on organisations as workers are faced with strain and job-related diseases which affect overall output of organisations. Also, few studies on psychosocial risk seems to focus more on heavy industries rather than the service sector where psychosocial risk factors can be identified and stress is overlooked or misinterpreted. The aim of this study is to examine the mediation role of job satisfaction on the relationship between psychosocial risk management and psychological attachment. A cross-sectional survey was designed to collect quantitative data from respondents within the Ghanaian Banking sector. The study adopted a multi stage sampling technique to select 220 employees for the survey. First, researchers used hierarchical correlation coefficient to test hypotheses and SPSS Process to test for mediation. The findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between the predictor which is psychosocial risk management and psychological attachment which is the outcome(r = 0.209, p < 0.01) with job satisfaction as a partial mediator between the relationship (z = 2.3003, p = 0.0214), after a sobel test was conducted. An indication that job satisfaction is critical in explaining the relationship between psychosocial risk management and psychological attachment.