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"The Power of a Firm's Benevolent Act": The Influence of Work Overload on Turnover Intention, the Mediating Role of Meaningfulness of Work and the Moderating Effect of CSR Activities.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 04 05; 18(7)IJ

Abstract

Although previous works have examined how work overload affects the perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of members in an organization, those studies have paid insufficient attention to the mediating and contingent factors in the work overload-turnover intention link from the perspective of positive psychology. Considering the theoretical and practical value and importance of positive psychology, studies that use it to investigate underlying processes are needed. Also, existing studies on work overload have focused on the moderating role of individual-level variables to reduce the negative effects of work overload, mostly ignoring the importance of organizational-level moderators. To resolve those issues, we hypothesize that the meaningfulness of an employee's work mediates the relationship between work overload and turnover intention. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices could moderate the association between work overload and the meaningfulness of work. Using a three-wave data set gathered from 356 currently working employees in South Korea, we reveal not only that the meaningfulness of work mediates the work overload-turnover intention link, but also that CSR activities play a buffering role in the work overload-meaningfulness of work link. Our findings suggest that, from the perspective of positive psychology, the degree of meaningfulness of work (as a mediator) and CSR activities (as a moderator) function as intermediating mechanisms in the work overload-turnover intention link.

Authors+Show Affiliations

Department of HRD Consulting, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Korea.College of Business Administration, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Korea.

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

33916350

Citation

Hwang, Yun-Seok, and Byung-Jik Kim. ""The Power of a Firm's Benevolent Act": the Influence of Work Overload On Turnover Intention, the Mediating Role of Meaningfulness of Work and the Moderating Effect of CSR Activities." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 7, 2021.
Hwang YS, Kim BJ. "The Power of a Firm's Benevolent Act": The Influence of Work Overload on Turnover Intention, the Mediating Role of Meaningfulness of Work and the Moderating Effect of CSR Activities. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18(7).
Hwang, Y. S., & Kim, B. J. (2021). "The Power of a Firm's Benevolent Act": The Influence of Work Overload on Turnover Intention, the Mediating Role of Meaningfulness of Work and the Moderating Effect of CSR Activities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073780
Hwang YS, Kim BJ. "The Power of a Firm's Benevolent Act": the Influence of Work Overload On Turnover Intention, the Mediating Role of Meaningfulness of Work and the Moderating Effect of CSR Activities. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 04 5;18(7) PubMed PMID: 33916350.
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