Abstract
The present study examines the effect of service employees' job insecurity on job performance through emotional exhaustion. We identified workplace incivility (i.e., coworker and customer incivility) as a boundary condition that strengthens the positive relationship between job insecurity and emotional exhaustion. To test this moderating effect, we collected online panel surveys from 264 Korean service employees at two time points three months apart. As predicted, the positive relationship between job insecurity and job performance was partially mediated by emotional exhaustion. Of the two forms of workplace incivility, only coworker incivility exerted a significant moderating effect on the job insecurity-emotional exhaustion relationship, such that this relationship was more pronounced when service employees experienced a high level of coworker incivility than when coworker incivility was low. Coworker incivility further moderated the indirect effect of job insecurity on job performance through emotional exhaustion. These findings have theoretical implications for job insecurity research and managerial implications for practitioners.
TY - JOUR
T1 - When Do Service Employees Suffer More from Job Insecurity? The Moderating Role of Coworker and Customer Incivility.
AU - Shin,Yuhyung,
AU - Hur,Won-Moo,
Y1 - 2019/04/11/
PY - 2019/3/11/received
PY - 2019/4/2/revised
PY - 2019/4/5/accepted
PY - 2019/4/14/entrez
PY - 2019/4/14/pubmed
PY - 2019/8/14/medline
KW - coworker incivility
KW - customer incivility
KW - emotional exhaustion
KW - job insecurity
KW - job performance
JF - International journal of environmental research and public health
JO - Int J Environ Res Public Health
VL - 16
IS - 7
N2 - The present study examines the effect of service employees' job insecurity on job performance through emotional exhaustion. We identified workplace incivility (i.e., coworker and customer incivility) as a boundary condition that strengthens the positive relationship between job insecurity and emotional exhaustion. To test this moderating effect, we collected online panel surveys from 264 Korean service employees at two time points three months apart. As predicted, the positive relationship between job insecurity and job performance was partially mediated by emotional exhaustion. Of the two forms of workplace incivility, only coworker incivility exerted a significant moderating effect on the job insecurity-emotional exhaustion relationship, such that this relationship was more pronounced when service employees experienced a high level of coworker incivility than when coworker incivility was low. Coworker incivility further moderated the indirect effect of job insecurity on job performance through emotional exhaustion. These findings have theoretical implications for job insecurity research and managerial implications for practitioners.
SN - 1660-4601
UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/30978969/When_Do_Service_Employees_Suffer_More_from_Job_Insecurity_The_Moderating_Role_of_Coworker_and_Customer_Incivility_
DB - PRIME
DP - Unbound Medicine
ER -