Job Insecurity and Workplace Deviance: The Moderating Role of Locus of Control

Xiao, Zengrui; Wu, Daoyou; Liao, Zhongju

doi:10.2224/sbp.7160

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“…Due to internal locus of control, an individual feels the strength to modify their behavior to control the achievement of the desired outcome. Thus, it has been studied as a moderating variable in different behavioral studies in the past (Chen et al, 2016;Fresson et al, 2017;Li et al, 2019;Xiao et al, 2018) causing an interaction effect between various behavioral constructs. Based on the above literature, the following hypotheses are proposed to study: H5a.…”

Section: Academic Burnout and Student Engagementmentioning

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Academic burnout and student engagement: a moderated mediation model of internal locus of control and loneliness

Singh

Kumar

Srivastava

2020

JIEB

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Purpose This paper aims to assess the relationship between academic burnout-student engagement relationships on management students of the Delhi-NCR region of Northern India. It further attempts to study the moderating impact of internal locus of control and mediating impact of loneliness on the academic burnout-student engagement relationship. Design/methodology/approach The data was collected using standardized instruments from 264 respondents. Descriptive statistics, correlation and moderated-mediated regression analysis were used to test the hypotheses. Findings The study found a negative association between student engagement and academic burnout and loneliness. A positive association between academic burnout and loneliness and a moderating impact of internal locus of control on academic burnout and student engagement relationship. Loneliness acted as a partial mediator for the moderated relationship between the academic burnout-student engagement relationship. Research limitations/implications Sample size and sampling units are the limitations of the study. Practical implications The conclusion of the presented study offers different inferences including validating the self-determination theory (Ryan and Deci, 2000) and possible courses of actions to be taken by academic institutions and students themselves. It ranges from careful investigation of student’s behaviors, design and implements collaborative projects along with student’s involvement in social networking based groups for collaborations and help. Social implications With the help of the study, the society including parents, family, friends, officials and academicians at educational institutions can offer useful insights to students through recreational and social activities for behavior modifications. Originality/value The major contribution of the study is to understand the psyche of the budding professionals perceiving increased stress and pressure. Limited studies are found in the Indian context and no studies in the past have used the study variables together. Internal locus of control as a personality variable has not been studied with respect to student’s burnout and engagement. Furthermore, none of the studies done in the past have deliberated upon loneliness with respect to the student community.

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Section: Academic Burnout and Student Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Academic burnout and student engagement: a moderated mediation model of internal locus of control and loneliness

Singh

Kumar

Srivastava

2020

JIEB

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“…Negative work attitudes will cause low work completion, and workers will be late, leave early, complain about leadership, and even resign [ 17 ]. When the individual’s emotional resources are exhausted, the employee’s creativity and challenge ability decrease [ 18 ]. When employees are highly motivated in their work, they will implement some behaviors in order to improve the existing work procedures, such as making suggestions and negating the opinions of other members of the working group [ 5 ].…”

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The Influence of the COVID-19 Event on Deviant Workplace Behavior Taking Tianjin, Beijing and Hebei as an Example

Liu

Zhang

Zhao

2020

IJERPH

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Background: Since the beginning of 2020, the Corona Virus Disease has broken out globally. This public health incident has had a great impact on the work and life of the public. Aim: Based on the event system theory, this article explored the influence of the “COVID-19” event on emotional exhaustion and deviant workplace behaviors. Methods: This survey’s objects are employees working in Tianjin, Beijing, Hebei affected by the epidemic. Using the questionnaire star, the online platform of the Marketing Research Office of Peking University and “snowball” methods 700 questionnaires were collected. Results: The response rate was 89.71% (n = 700). Female employees are more sensitive to the perceived event strength of the novel coronavirus pneumonia than male employees (F = 10.94, p <0.001); Employees aged 30–40 affected by the epidemic have the highest level of emotional exhaustion (F = 5.22, p < 0.01); A higher education level leads to a higher level of emotional exhaustion (F = 4.74, p < 0.01); The emotional exhaustion is polarized with the annual family income (F = 4.099, p < 0.01). Conclusions: The novelty, disruption, criticality of the Corona Virus Disease event has had a positive impact on the emotional exhaustion of employees in the workplace; Emotional exhaustion plays a partly mediating role between event strength with constructive deviant behaviors, and destructive deviant behaviors. Emotional exhaustion has a positive effect on creative constructive deviant behaviors, challenging constructive deviant behaviors, and interpersonal destructive deviant behaviors. Emotional exhaustion has a negative impact on organizational destructive deviant behaviors, and has no significant impact on interpersonal constructive deviant behaviors.

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“…With the study of the internal effects of the employee, the research on the outcome variables of job insecurity has gradually extended to the field of behavior. Scholars have studied the influence of job insecurity on employees’ actual turnover behavior ( Richter et al, 2020 ), workplace deviance ( Xiao et al, 2018 ), counterproductive behavior ( Nawrocka et al, 2021 ), and organizational citizenship behavior ( Lam et al, 2015 ) from different perspectives. The studies on the influence of job insecurity on employees’ innovative behavior ( Teng et al, 2019 ) have also sprung up as organizations attach increasing importance to “innovation.” There are no researchers that have been found to pay attention to the impact of job insecurity on proactive behavior.…”

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Suffering Job Insecurity: Will the Employees Take the Proactive Behavior or Not?

Yao

Zhang

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Job insecurity is considered an important antecedent of an employee’s creativity. Though, the relationship between job insecurity and proactive behavior has been neglected in previous human resources management studies. The aim of this study is to explore the influence of job insecurity on employees’ proactive behavior and its mechanism. Based on the social cognitive theory and cognitive appraisal theory, two types of cognitive appraisal of employee’s job insecurity (hindrance vs. challenge) as mediator variables of job insecurity and proactive behavior association. In addition, the moderator roles of self-efficacy are examined. This study is carried out with 257 employees from Chinese firms to examine the hypothesized moderated mediation model by using the hierarchical regression analysis and the bootstrap. The results showed a different effect of job insecurity depending on its conceptualization. The results show that job insecurity has a negative effect on employees’ proactive behavior. At the same time, cognitive appraisal of employees’ job insecurity mediated the association between job insecurity and employee’s proactive behavior. Self-efficacy not only moderates the relationship between job insecurity and cognitive appraisal but also moderate the cognitive appraisal’s mediation effect between job insecurity and proactive behavior. The study’s theoretical and practical contributions and future research are discussed.

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Job Insecurity and Workplace Deviance: The Moderating Role of Locus of Control

Cited by 29 publications

References 9 publications

Academic burnout and student engagement: a moderated mediation model of internal locus of control and loneliness

Academic burnout and student engagement: a moderated mediation model of internal locus of control and loneliness

The Influence of the COVID-19 Event on Deviant Workplace Behavior Taking Tianjin, Beijing and Hebei as an Example

Suffering Job Insecurity: Will the Employees Take the Proactive Behavior or Not?

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