Resource passageways and personal resources: Influence of cooperative psychological climate on workplace thriving

Workplace thriving is a positive psychological state and has been characterised as benefiting both employees and their organisations. This psychological state may greatly be affected by the environmental conditions at work. The study aims to explore how employees’ perception of cooperative psychological climate affects employee’s ability to thrive at work through the indirect effect of meaningfulness at work. Using a conservation of resource (COR) theory, we study how the perception of employees regarding environmental conditions, referred to as a resource-passageways, may fluctuate employees’ personal resources. Through a multi-wave study, we collected data from 206 employees working in the services sector, specifically banks. A regression analysis was performed on SPSS while Hayes process Macro was used to analyse the mediating mechanism. The results show that a cooperative psychological climate increases meaningful work for employees which in turn influences their ability to thrive at work. These findings contribute to the knowledge of resource passageways and employees’ ability to thrive at work. The chapter can further guide future thoughts on the perceptions of environmental conditions as a building block of workplace thriving.