@Article{IJMHP.2019.010744,
AUTHOR = {Shuhong Wang, Yipeng Tang, Crystal Zhang, Wenyue Pan, Huan Liu, Sheng Huang},
TITLE = {Risk the Change or Change the Risk? The Nonlinear Effect of Job Insecurity  on Task Performance},
JOURNAL = {International Journal of Mental Health Promotion},
VOLUME = {21},
YEAR = {2019},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {45--57},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/IJMHP/v21n2/38526},
ISSN = {2049-8543},
ABSTRACT = {Job insecurity has been recognized for its negative effect on employee 
performance. Nevertheless, this study argues that, under the threat of job 
insecurity, employees may also be likely to seek to reduce the threat by proactively 
crafting their tasks and improving performance. Drawing from the perspective of 
Vroom’s expectancy theory, it is proposed that, only when job security is at 
moderate level will employees expect it as possible to make such a change to 
respond to the situation. Accordingly, a curvilinear mediated model is developed 
that links job insecurity and task performance indirectly through task crafting, and 
a two-waved time-lagged survey involving 328 employees was conducted to test 
the model. The results showed that job insecurity had an inverted U-shaped 
relationship with task crafting and that this relationship was moderated by 
strengths-based psychological climate, a measure of how employees feel their 
strengths are appreciated in the organization. In this sense, strengths-based 
psychological climate can enhance the positive relationship between job insecurity 
and task crafting. Overall, the finding suggests that job insecurity may not always 
be detrimental. Thus, there will be significant managerial implications in creating 
favorable conditions for increased task performance.},
DOI = {10.32604/IJMHP.2019.010744}
}