Do Leadership, Organizational Communication, and Work Environment Impact Employees’ Psychosocial Hazards in the Oil and Gas Industry?

Gehad Mohammed Ahmed Naji, Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha, Abdulsamad Alazzani, Paula Brough, Muhammad Shoaib Saleem, Mysara Eissa Mohyaldinn and Mohammed Alzoraiki
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Gehad Mohammed Ahmed Naji: Department of Management & Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia
Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha: Department of Management & Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia
Abdulsamad Alazzani: Department of Accounting and Information Systems, College of Business and Economics, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar
Paula Brough: School of Applied Psychology, Mount Gravatt Campus, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD 4122, Australia
Muhammad Shoaib Saleem: Department of Management & Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia
Mysara Eissa Mohyaldinn: Department of Petroleum Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia
Mohammed Alzoraiki: Department of HRM, College of Administrative and Financial Science, Gulf University, Sanad 743, Bahrain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 8, 1-20

Abstract: Workplace hazards can have a significant influence on a worker’s physical and mental health, reducing an organization’s effectiveness in terms of safety. However, psychosocial hazards are being recognized as a crucial component that must be addressed for the individual’s and organization’s safety. The purpose of this research was to propose and statistically evaluate a brief theoretical framework based on leadership, organizational communication, work environment, and psychosocial hazards in Malaysia’s upstream oil and gas sector. The framework was tested on 380 Malaysian upstream oil and gas workers. The collected data were analyzed using partial least squares and structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The study’s findings revealed that in the Malaysian oil and gas industry, leadership, communication, and work environment negatively influenced the psychosocial hazards. This negative association between predictors and psychosocial hazards, particularly job expectations, control, role, and relationships, indicates new grounds for research. It is discussed how the findings could be used to track employees’ well-being over time and generate focused treatments.

Keywords: psychosocial hazards; leadership; organizational communication; work environment; upstream; Malaysian oil and gas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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