School of Tourism and Events, Hefei University, Hefei 230601, China.
School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 9;18(24):12999. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182412999.
An expanding "gig" economy has changed the nature of employment; thus, researchers have recently focused on exploring the role of job precariousness in the workplace. However, little research attention has been given to understanding why, how and when job precariousness leads to employees' negative behavioral outcomes in the service-oriented industry. In the current study, we examined job insecurity as a mediator and employees' negative affect as a moderator in the relationship between job precariousness and employees' withdrawal behavior. Using a sample of 472 employees working in Chinese hotels, we found that job precariousness is positively related to employees' withdrawal behavior by increasing their job insecurity. Moreover, this mediating relationship is conditional on the moderator variable of employees' negative affect for the path from job insecurity to withdrawal behavior. The importance of these findings for understanding the undesirable behavior outcomes of job precariousness is discussed.
不断扩大的“零工”经济改变了就业性质；因此，研究人员最近专注于探索工作不稳定性在工作场所中的作用。然而，对于理解为什么、如何以及何时工作不稳定性会导致服务型行业员工产生负面行为结果，研究关注甚少。在本研究中，我们检验了工作不安全感作为中介变量，以及员工的负面情绪作为工作不稳定性与员工离职行为之间关系的调节变量。我们使用了来自中国酒店的 472 名员工样本，发现工作不稳定性通过增加员工的工作不安全感，与员工的离职行为呈正相关。此外，这种中介关系受到员工负面情绪的调节变量的限制，即工作不安全感与离职行为之间的路径。这些发现对于理解工作不稳定性的不良行为结果具有重要意义。
