Shuhong Wang1, Yipeng Tang1,*, Crystal Zhang2, Wenyue Pan1,*, Huan Liu1, Sheng Huang1
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.2, pp. 45-57, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.010744
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… More >
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