scholarly journals Remote Working for Sustainability of Organization during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediator-Moderator Role of Social Support

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Marko Slavković ◽  
Stefan Sretenović ◽  
Marijana Bugarčić
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Organizational Response ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Positive Direct ◽  
Work Interaction ◽  
Moderator Role

Remote working became a widespread business practice during the COVID-19 pandemic as an organizational response to protect employees’ health and maintain business continuity. The aim of this paper is to reveal the role of social support in the relationship among NWHI, NHWI and loneliness, and work engagement and job performance. The study respondents were employees with a remote working status in Serbian companies, and a total of 226 valid surveys were collected. The PLS-SEM approach was deployed to test the hypothesized relationship between named variables. A standard bootstrapping procedure was used to reveal direct and indirect effects among latent variables. Results indicate a strong and positive direct association between social support and work engagement and job performance, while mediation and moderation of the role of social support were mostly confirmed but with some results opposite to what was expected. Social support was not able to buffer a negative home–work interaction and loneliness within remote working. The study offers insight into the role of social support and recommendations for managing the antecedents and consequences of remote working, with the aim to determine a sustainable model for extensive application, not only during the COVID-19 pandemic, but in regular times.

Cognitive and affective predictors of occupational stress and job performance: the role of perceived organizational support and work engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Junça Silva ◽  
Cannanda Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThis study aimed to (1) analyze whether the perceived organizational support (POS) was a significant predictor of performance and stress and (2) explore the mediating role of engagement in these relations.Design/methodology/approachTo test the hypotheses, the authors collected data with 200 working adults in a mandatory quarantine due to COVID-19 pandemic crisis.FindingsThe results showed that the POS contributed to increase engagement, and consequently, job performance. These relations also proved to be significant for stress, because when the POS increased, the work engagement also increased, and as a result decreased occupational stress.Research limitations/implicationsThis study relied on a cross-sectional design. Therefore, future research should consider a daily design to replicate this study and analyze daily fluctuations. Overall, the authors can conclude that work engagement is an affective process through which POS decreases stress and increases performance.Originality/valueThis study tests the mediating effect of work engagement on the link between POS, stress and performance, and its theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Older Worker Identity and Job Performance: The Moderator Role of Subjective Age and Self-Efficacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2731
Author(s):  
Francisco Rodríguez-Cifuentes ◽  
Jesús Farfán ◽  
Gabriela Topa
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Older Worker ◽  
Subjective Age ◽  
Negative Beliefs ◽  
Worker Identity ◽  
Moderator Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Counseling Practices

Older Worker Identity consists of the internalization of negative beliefs and attitudes towards aged employees by these same people. This research aims to explore the moderator role both of subjective age and self-efficacy in the relationship between older worker identity and job performance. The study was conducted with a panel design, including a sample of +40 Spanish workers (n = 200), with two waves (4-months interval). The findings supported the moderator role of subjective age in the relationship, while it failed to support the moderator role of self-efficacy. These findings underline that workers who actively manage their subjective age perceptions could age successfully at work. The implications of this study for counseling practices are discussed.

scholarly journals Expressive Flexibility and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Social Support and Gender Differences

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Chenyu Shangguan ◽  
Lihui Zhang ◽  
Yali Wang ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Meixian Shan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Positive Direct ◽  
The Relationship

Recent research has emphasized the crucial role of expressive flexibility in mental health. This study extended prior studies by further exploring the mediating mechanism and possible gender differences underlying the association between expressive flexibility and mental health indexed by depression and life satisfaction based on the dual-factor model of mental health. Specifically, we explored whether social support mediated the association between expressive flexibility and depression as well as life satisfaction, and whether there were gender differences in these relationships. A total of 711 voluntary college students (mean age = 20.98 years, SD = 2.28; 55.70% women) completed a set of scales assessing expressive flexibility, perceived social support, depression, and life satisfaction. Results showed that expressive flexibility had a positive direct effect on life satisfaction and social support mediated this association. Social support also mediated the relationship between expressive flexibility and depression. The mediation effect of social support was robust and consistent in men and women whereas expressive flexibility had a stronger direct effect on depression in women compared to men. The present study contributes to clarifying the relationship between expressive flexibility and mental health from a more comprehensive perspective. Last, the strengths and limitations of this study were discussed.

scholarly journals ADHD and its Effects on Job Performance: A Moderated Mediation Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Ernesto Rosario-Hernández ◽  
Lillian Rovira-Millán
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Work Behaviors ◽  
Productive Work ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of ADHD on job performance and the possible me-diating role of work engagement and moderating role of gender. Hypotheses testing were performed using structural equation modeling base on PLS-SEM approach applied to a sample of 448 employees from different organizations in Puerto Rico. The results shown that ADHD has a direct effect on task performance and counter-productive work behaviors, but none on organizational citizenship behaviors. Meanwhile, the relationship be-tween ADHD and task performance/organizational citizenship behavior were mediated by work engagement. On the other hand, gender moderated the relationship between ADHD and counterproductive work behaviors on which males were more strongly to show counter-productive work behaviors under high levels of ADHD than females. Findings are discussed in the light of their theoretical and practical implications for future studies.

scholarly journals Abusive supervision, occupational well-being and job performance: The critical role of attention–awareness mindfulness

2021 ◽  
pp. 031289622110377
Author(s):  
Dirk De Clercq ◽  
Sadia Jahanzeb ◽  
Tasneem Fatima
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Abusive Supervision ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Buffering Effect ◽  
Health Impairment ◽  
Health Related

Drawing from the job demands–resources (JD-R) model, this study sets out to investigate two complementary mechanisms that underpin the connection between employees’ exposure to abusive supervision and diminished job performance – one that is health-related (higher emotional exhaustion) and another that is motivation-related (lower work engagement). It also examines how this harmful process might be contained by employees’ mindfulness, particularly as manifest in its attention–awareness component. Data collected across three points in time among employees and supervisors in different organizations show that the motivation-based mechanism is more prominent than its health-impairment counterpart in connecting abusive supervision with lower job performance. The results also reveal a buffering effect of employees’ mindfulness on their responses to abusive supervision. JEL Classification: M50

Who benefits from time-spatial job crafting? The role of boundary characteristics in the relationship between time-spatial job crafting, engagement and performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Jurgita Lazauskaite-Zabielske ◽  
Arunas Ziedelis ◽  
Ieva Urbanaviciute
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Boundary Characteristics ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Work And Life

PurposeUsing the theoretical framework of job demands-resources and boundary management, the purpose of this paper is to explore the moderating role of work and life boundary characteristics in the relationship between time-spatial job crafting, work engagement and job performance.Design/methodology/approachA total of 176 employees working in the IT sector and having an opportunity to use flexible work arrangements were surveyed online.FindingsWork and life boundary characteristics were found to moderate the relationship between time-spatial job crafting and work engagement as well as between time-spatial job crafting and job performance. Moreover, boundary characteristics moderated the indirect relationship between time-spatial job crafting and job performance through work engagement.Practical implicationsTime-spatial job crafting becomes a key strategy for maintaining work engagement and job performance, when work–life boundaries are less flexible and less permeable.Originality/valueThe study demonstrates that boundary characteristics determine the effects of time-spatial job crafting on work engagement and job performance.

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