Job insecurity, subjective well-being and job performance: The moderating role of psychological capital

By Mahlagha Darvishmotevali, Faizan Ali. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2020

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Abstract The article illuminates one of the central concerns in organizational study; the extent to which job insecurity (JI) affects employees’ subjective well-being (SWB) and consequently their job performance (JP) in hospitality industry. Building on the transactional theory stress and coping, the study analyses the buffering role of psychological capital (PsyCap) as a strategy by which employees overcome the negative impact of JI on SWB and JP. Respondents include 250 four and five star hotel employees in Tehran, Iran. The results highlighted the mediating role of SWB, affirming that JI negatively impacts employees’ JP via decreasing their SWB. Furthermore, the results show that employees with high level of PsyCap are able to cope with JI. Hotel management teams should make appropriate decisions to minimize or eliminate stressful stimuli, particularly JI in the workplace, which has been found to have severe mental, emotional and behavioural consequences.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• COVID-19, frontline hotel employees’ perceived job insecurity and emotional exhaustion: Does trade union support matter? (2021, background): “The danger of job loss can lessen the ability to engage with work, intensify the desire to quit the workplace early (Karatepe et al., 2020), and decrease subjective well-being (Darvishmotevali & Ali, 2020).”
• How does hotel employees’ satisfaction with the organization’s COVID-19 responses affect job insecurity and job performance? (2020, methodology): “The outcome viewpoint is about evaluating the results of employees’ behavior, while the behavioral viewpoint implies how employees behave at work; however, they are interrelated (Darvishmotevali & Ali, 2020).”