Perceived threat of terrorism and employee outcomes: The moderating role of negative affectivity and psychological capital

Raja, Usman; Azeem, Muhammad Umer; Haq, Inam Ul; Naseer, Saima

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.01.026

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“…Perceived Pandemic Threats. To measure employees' beliefs about the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their organization, we adapted a well-established 13-item scale of perceived threats of terrorism to a virus context (Raja et al, 2020;Sinclair & LoCicero, 2006). Three sample items were "I frequently find myself preoccupied with thinking about the impact of COVID19 on my organization," "The threat that COVID-19 poses to my organization often enters my mind," and "I worry that the threat of COVID-19 to my organization will never end" (Cronbach's α = .84).…”

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“…But adversity at work also spills over from private spheres. For example, family demands ( Anand et al, 2015 ), rude treatment by family members ( Lim & Tai, 2014 ), or experiences of life-threatening events ( Raja et al, 2020 ) occur outside the work realm but have notable influences on work functioning. Another such external influence is highly salient today, in the form of the life-threatening COVID-19 pandemic ( Ahorsu et al, 2020 ).…”

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Taking the Pandemic by Its Horns: Using Work-Related Task Conflict to Transform Perceived Pandemic Threats Into Creativity

Clercq

Pereira

2020

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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This study investigates a pressing topic, related to the connection between employees’ perceptions that the COVID-19 pandemic represents a pertinent threat for their organization on one hand, and their exhibited creativity, a critical behavior through which they can change and improve the organizational status quo, on the other. This connection may depend on their work-related task conflict, or the extent to which they reach out to colleagues to discuss different perspectives on work-related issues, as well as their collectivistic orientation. Data were gathered from employees working in the real estate sector. The results inform organizational practitioners that they should leverage productive task conflict to channel work-related hardships, such as those created by the coronavirus pandemic, into creative work outcomes. This beneficial process may be particularly effective for firms that employ people who embrace collectivistic norms, so they prioritize the well-being of others.

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Taking the Pandemic by Its Horns: Using Work-Related Task Conflict to Transform Perceived Pandemic Threats Into Creativity

Clercq

Pereira

2020

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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“…Second, we address calls to apply contingency approaches to organizational studies of the negative consequences of life-threatening situations (De Clercq, Haq, & Azeem, 2017 ; Raja, Azeem, Haq, & Naseer, 2020 ; Toker, Laurence, & Fried, 2015 ), by focusing on the pertinent role of attention–awareness mindfulness. Mindfulness serves a protective function in mitigating the work-related challenges that come with quantitative and emotional job demands (Haun, Nübold, & Bauer, 2018 ) or polychronicity (Weintraub, Pattusamy, & Dust, 2019 ).…”

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The link between fear about COVID-19 and insomnia: mediated by economic concerns and psychological distress, moderated by mindfulness

Clercq

Haq

Azeem

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Journal of Management & Organization

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This paper adds to extant research by examining the relationship between employees’ fear of coronavirus disease 2019 and their suffering from insomnia. It specifically proposes mediating roles of employees' economic concerns and psychological distress and a moderating role of mindfulness in this process. The research hypotheses are tested with survey data collected through two studies among Pakistani-based professionals: 316 in study 1 and 421 in study 2. The results pinpoint a salient risk for employees who experience fear during a pandemic crisis, in that the associated economic and psychological hardships make the situation worse by undermining their sleep quality, which eventually could diminish the quality of their lives even further. It also reveals how organizations can mitigate this risk if employees can leverage pertinent personal resources, such as mindfulness.

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“…As a core element, PC focuses on the psychological state and can be obtained through targeted development (Raja et al, 2020). The influencing factors of college students' ELE based on the PC dimension was analyzed in this study.…”

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Analysis on Influences of College Students’ Psychological Capital in Entrepreneurial Learning Engagement

Zhang

Han

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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College students' entrepreneurial learning engagement (ELE) is a key link that affects the success of future entrepreneurship. To analyze the influencing factors of the psychological capital (PC) dimension in college students' ELE, a total of 211 college students were selected from colleges in the Ningbo area for questionnaire survey. The principal component analysis method was used to test the difference validity of PC and ELE. One-way analysis of variance was used to analyze differences in demographic variables between PC, ELE, and positive emotions (PEs). Besides, the structural equation model was used to analyze the mediating role of PEs in PC and ELE. In addition, there was a significant difference between the unrestricted model of PC-ELE and the restricted model (p < 0.05), and the difference between the potential dimensions of "mental capital-learning input" was generally satisfactory; there were significant differences at the professional level (p < 0.01); PC had significant differences in family economic status (p < 0.01); the indirect path coefficients of PE added to the relationship between PC and ELE were 0.106 and 0.211, respectively, and there was no significance (p > 0.05). In short, the PC of college students has a significant positive influence (PI) on ELE, PC differs significantly in family economic status, and PEs differ significantly at the professional level. The research results show that there is no mediating effect of PEs in the relationship between PC and college students' ELE.

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Perceived threat of terrorism and employee outcomes: The moderating role of negative affectivity and psychological capital

Cited by 69 publications

References 68 publications

Taking the Pandemic by Its Horns: Using Work-Related Task Conflict to Transform Perceived Pandemic Threats Into Creativity

Taking the Pandemic by Its Horns: Using Work-Related Task Conflict to Transform Perceived Pandemic Threats Into Creativity

The link between fear about COVID-19 and insomnia: mediated by economic concerns and psychological distress, moderated by mindfulness

Analysis on Influences of College Students’ Psychological Capital in Entrepreneurial Learning Engagement

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