Rasdi Roziah Mohd, Zaremohzzabieh Zeinab, Ahrari Seyedali
Department of Professional Development and Continuing Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia.
Front Psychol. 2021 Feb 18;12:610138. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.610138. eCollection 2021.
The novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has magnified the issue of financial insecurity. However, its effect on individual-organizational relations and, consequently, on organizational performance remains understudied. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the spillover effect of financial insecurity on the burnout-disengagement relationship during the pandemic. The authors investigate in particular whether the spillover effect influences the performance of moonlighting employees and also explore the mediating effect of disengagement on the relationship between financial insecurity and burnout interaction effect and the performance (i.e., mediated-moderation). This study collected responses from 162 public and private sector employees who are engaged in moonlighting activities in Malaysia. The results from the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) revealed greater levels of financial insecurity and burnout associated with greater levels of work disengagement. The analysis of the interaction-moderation effect showed that when financial insecurity rises, the burnout effect on work disengagement increases among moonlighters. Using the PROCESS macro model, the results displayed burnout as a predictor of extra-role performance via a moderated (financial insecurity) mediation (work disengagement) relationship. Going forward, this study not only opens new avenues for research into the financial consequences of COVID-19 but also calls on managers to take proactive steps to mitigate the negative effect of the pandemic on the performance of moonlighting employees to keep them in the profession.
新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）加剧了经济不安全问题。然而，其对个人与组织关系以及进而对组织绩效的影响仍未得到充分研究。因此，本研究的目的是探讨大流行期间经济不安全对倦怠-工作投入关系的溢出效应。作者特别调查了这种溢出效应是否会影响兼职员工的绩效，并探讨工作投入在经济不安全与倦怠交互效应和绩效之间关系中的中介作用（即中介调节作用）。本研究收集了162名在马来西亚从事兼职活动的公共和私营部门员工的回复。偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS-SEM）的结果显示，更高程度的经济不安全和倦怠与更高程度的工作投入相关。交互调节效应分析表明，当经济不安全加剧时，兼职员工中倦怠对工作投入的影响会增加。使用PROCESS宏模型，结果显示倦怠通过一个调节（经济不安全）中介（工作投入）关系成为角色外绩效的一个预测因素。展望未来，本研究不仅为研究COVID-19的财务后果开辟了新途径，还呼吁管理者采取积极措施减轻大流行对兼职员工绩效的负面影响，以使他们留在该行业。
