Role ambiguity and economic hardship as the moderators of the relation between abusive supervision and job burnout: An Application of uncertainty management theory

How Managers’ Job Crafting Reduces Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Role Ambiguity and Emotional Exhaustion

“…As a result, managers with ambiguous roles are likely to exhaust their emotional resources. Likewise, uncertainty about job duties and responsibilities incurs negative experiences such as burnout [49][50][51][52]. Therefore, we predict the following relationship: Hypothesis 2.…”

Role ambiguity as an amplifier of the association between job stressors and workers’ psychological ill-being: Evidence from an occupational survey in Japan

“…The correlations between job stressors and PD or JD were substantially strengthened by interaction with high RA, a result consistent with previous studies that indicated the amplifying effect of RA on the negative impact of adverse job conditions on workers' health. 9,10 We also observed that the association between RA and PD or JD became non-significant after controlling for the effects of job stressors and their interactions. This result highlights the importance of the role of RA in amplifying the effects of job stressors on psychological ill-being, while the direct effect of RA is generally limited.…”

“…However, it might be possible that RA may work not only as a job stressor but also as an amplifier of the association between job stressors and workers' psychological ill-being. In line with this view, RA has been found to amplify the association between abusive supervision and job burnout 9 as well as between job instability and psychological distress. 10 RA is considered to have a negative effect on the motivational process in the Job Demands-Control (JD-C) model 11 via a perception of increased job demands due to their uncertainty.…”

“…First, we examined how RA modified the associations between key job stressors (i.e., high job demands, low job control, high effort, and low reward), which are derived from the JD-C and ERI models, and workers' psychological ill-being (i.e., psychological distress [PD] and job dissatisfaction [JD]). Based on the observations in previous studies, 9,10 we predicted that RA would amplify the adverse impact of job stressors. Unlike previous studies, however, we compared the modifying effects on key job stressors within the same analytic framework.…”

Associations Between Perceptions of the Work Environment and Job Burnout Based on MIMIC Models Among 679 Knowledge Workers

“…Regarding economic motive, this study is in accord with several studies. Based on uncertainty management theory, a study in a transportation company in Taiwan shows that economic hardship induces the positive relationship between abusive supervision and subordinates' job burnout (Wu et al, 2019). A study in Bulgaria shows economic aspects of the burnout syndrome among medical professionals is reflected in reduced performance at individual level (Pavlova et al, 2011).…”