Faculty of Management, Open Universiteit, 6419 AT Heerlen, The Netherlands.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Apr 28;20(9):5684. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20095684.
As an answer to crises such as COVID-19, organizations implemented more subtle forms of cutback measures such as wage moderation, loan sacrifice and recruitment freezes aimed at maintaining a financially healthy organization. In this study, the association between subtle cutback management and employee exhaustion was studied, and it was investigated whether this potential linkage can be explained by employee perceptions of increased qualitative job insecurity or the fear that valued features of the job will decrease in the near future. This research thereby extends prior research on the consequences of cutback management as well as regarding the antecedents of qualitative job insecurity. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted on a sample of workers (N = 218) active in various organizations in the Netherlands and Belgium. Regression analysis was applied to test hypotheses. Mediation was investigated by means of Hayes PROCESS macro. The results of the study indicate that there is no direct relationship between subtle cutback measures deployed at the workplace and employee exhaustion. However, the analyses further reveal that subtle cutback management is positively related to the experience of qualitative job insecurity in workers and that enhanced qualitative job insecurity is positively related to employee exhaustion. Qualitative job insecurity fully mediates the relationship between subtle cutback management and employee exhaustion.
作为对 COVID-19 等危机的回应，各组织实施了更为微妙的削减措施形式，如工资适度调整、贷款牺牲和招聘冻结，旨在保持组织的财务健康。在这项研究中，研究了微妙的削减管理与员工疲惫之间的关联，并探讨了这种潜在的联系是否可以通过员工对定性工作不安全感增加的感知或对工作中有价值的特征在不久的将来会减少的担忧来解释。本研究因此扩展了关于削减管理的后果以及定性工作不安全感的前因的先前研究。在荷兰和比利时的各种组织中，对一组工作人员（N=218）进行了横断面在线调查。应用回归分析检验假设。通过 Hayes PROCESS 宏检验中介作用。研究结果表明，工作场所实施的微妙削减措施与员工疲惫之间没有直接关系。然而，分析进一步表明，微妙的削减管理与工人的定性工作不安全感体验呈正相关，增强的定性工作不安全感与员工疲惫呈正相关。定性工作不安全感完全中介了微妙削减管理与员工疲惫之间的关系。
