Mumtaz Sana, Aqif Tanzeela
Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS, Canada.
FAST School of Management, NUCES, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Psychol Rep. 2025 Oct;128(5):3759-3776. doi: 10.1177/00332941231207956. Epub 2023 Oct 24.
The Covid outbreak and the resulting work processes have led to excessive work pressure requirements for a large majority of the employees due to continuous requirements for adaptation to changing work processes. However, outcomes of new work dynamics on employees' behavioral and attitudinal changes have been insufficiently examined during and after the Covid period. Hence, this empirical research has used the social identity theory to conceptualize and test the relationship between excessive work time and the entrepreneurial behavior of employees. Moreover, the mediating role of socialization tactics and creative self-efficacy, as well as the moderating role of resilience are also examined in the above relationship for unveiling the role of crucial intervening and conditional factors in individualized change experiences. Based on the analysis of data collected from managerial-level employees through the use of structural equation modeling, the empirical results have suggested a negative impact of excessive work time on the entrepreneurial behavior of employees. Also, the intervening role of formal socialization and creative self-efficacy were found to be significant in this relationship, thus suggesting the crucial direct as well as indirect relationships. Using the findings, implications as well as future research directions are discussed towards the end of the article.
新冠疫情的爆发以及由此产生的工作流程，因需要不断适应变化的工作流程，给绝大多数员工带来了过大的工作压力。然而，在新冠疫情期间及之后，新的工作动态对员工行为和态度变化的影响尚未得到充分研究。因此，本实证研究运用社会认同理论来概念化并检验过长工作时间与员工创业行为之间的关系。此外，还考察了社会化策略和创造性自我效能感的中介作用，以及复原力的调节作用，以揭示关键干预因素和条件因素在个体变化经历中的作用。基于通过结构方程模型对管理层员工收集的数据进行分析，实证结果表明过长工作时间对员工的创业行为有负面影响。此外，正式社会化和创造性自我效能感的中介作用在这种关系中也很显著，从而表明了关键的直接和间接关系。文章结尾讨论了研究结果、启示以及未来的研究方向。
