How workplace support for the COVID‐19 pandemic and personality traits affect changes in employees' affective commitment to the organization and job‐related well‐being
Mihalache, Mashiho
Mihalache, Mashiho
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Publication Year
2022
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Human Resource Management
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Publication Volume
61
Publication Issue
3
Publication Begin page
295
Publication End page
314
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Abstract
How do organizational responses to environmental disruptions affect employees' job-related well-being? As the COVID-19 pandemic has led to new ways of working, increased health concerns, and added responsibilities, employees are facing important challenges in doing their work that can affect their job-related well-being. This study aims to understand how different types of work support (i.e., perceived organizational support and supervisor accessibility) in response to environmental disruption interact with personality traits (i.e., core self-evaluations and future focus) to influence changes in employees' affective commitment to their organization and in their job-related well-being. We develop a moderated mediation model and test it on data collected from 295 individuals working in the United Kingdom. We find that work support for the COVID-19 pandemic, both perceived organizational support and supervisor accessibility, is associated with more positive changes in employees' job-related well-being and that this effect is mediated by changes in employees' affective commitment to their organization. Furthermore, we find that personality traits moderate the relationships between these two types of support and changes in affective commitment to the organization, with those relationships being more positive for employees with low core self-evaluations and for those with a high future focus.
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Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, Social and Personality Psychology, Human Resources and Industrial Relations, Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour, Psychology, Coronaviruses Disparities and At-Risk Populations, Coronaviruses, Infectious Diseases, Behavioral and Social Science