Job insecurity and moral disengagement in frontline employees: A moderated mediation effect of perceived organizational support and occupational regret

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Intangible Capital Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI:10.3926/ic.2643

P. Gautam, D. Gautam

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Purpose: The study's purpose is to analyze the effect of job insecurity on the moral disengagement of frontline employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also analyzes the moderated mediation model incorporating occupational regret and perceived organizational support.Design/Methodology: This study used analytical research design to analyze the moderated mediation effect. Frontline employees working at least three days a week were selected as the respondents and data were collected through the structured questionnaire survey. Hayes's approach was used to examine the moderated mediation model adopting a 95% level of confidence.Findings: The result revealed that job insecurity is a significant predictor of moral disengagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, occupational regret mediated the predicting ability of job insecurity and moderated by organizational support. This study highlights the essence of organizational support to reduce moral disengagement as a consequence of job insecurity and occupational regret.Implications: This study contributes to the social cognitive theory. In addition, it recommends that management practitioners ensure organizational support to minimize employees’ disengagement. Further, it supports minimizing employees’ feelings of job insecurity and occupational regret by maintaining a supportive organizational environment. Originality/Value: This study adds value by examining the mediation effect of occupational regret in the relationship between predicting variable job insecurity and outcome variable moral disengagement. It also examines the moderation effect of perceived organizational support in the mediation model. Thus, this study suggests an integrated model. Further, this study provides recommendations for future research that gauge the level of understanding to manage employees’ moral disengagement during the crisis because of intense job insecurity feelings and occupational regret.

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一线员工的工作不安全感与道德脱离：感知到的组织支持和职业遗憾的调节中介效应

目的：本研究旨在分析 COVID-19 大流行期间工作不安全感对一线员工道德脱离的影响。本研究还分析了包含职业悔恨和感知组织支持的调节中介模型：本研究采用分析性研究设计来分析调节中介效应。研究选取每周至少工作三天的一线员工作为调查对象，通过结构化问卷调查收集数据。研究采用海斯方法（Hayes's approach）来检验调节中介模型，置信度为 95%：结果显示，在 COVID-19 大流行期间，工作不安全感是道德脱离的一个重要预测因素。此外，职业悔恨对工作不安全感的预测能力具有中介作用，并受到组织支持的调节。本研究强调了组织支持对于减少因工作不安全感和职业悔恨而导致的道德脱离的重要性：本研究为社会认知理论做出了贡献。此外，它还建议管理实践者确保组织支持，以尽量减少员工的脱离感。此外，本研究还支持通过维持一个支持性的组织环境，最大限度地减少员工的工作不安全感和职业遗憾感。原创性/价值：本研究通过考察职业遗憾在预测变量工作不安全感和结果变量道德脱离之间的中介效应，增加了研究的价值。研究还考察了感知到的组织支持在中介模型中的调节作用。因此，本研究提出了一个综合模型。此外，本研究还为今后的研究提供了建议，以衡量在危机期间管理员工因强烈的工作不安全感和职业遗憾而产生的道德疏离的理解水平。

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Intangible Capital MANAGEMENT-

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1.50

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16.70%

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33 weeks

期刊介绍： The aim of Intangible Capital is to publish theoretical and empirical articles that contribute to contrast, extend and build theories that contribute to advance our understanding of phenomena related with management, and the management of intangibles, in organizations, from the perspectives of strategic management, human resource management, psychology, education, IT, supply chain management and accounting. The scientific research in management is grounded on theories developed from perspectives taken from a diversity of social sciences. Intangible Capital is open to publish articles that, from sociology, psychology, economics and industrial organization contribute to the scientific development of management and organizational science. Intangible Capital publishes scholar articles that contribute to contrast existing theories, or to build new theoretical approaches. The contributions can adopt confirmatory (quantitative) or explanatory (mainly qualitative) methodological approaches. Theoretical essays that enhance the building or extension of theoretical approaches are also welcome. Intangible Capital selects the articles to be published with a double bind, peer review system, following the practices of good scholarly journals. Intangible Capital publishes three regular issues per year following an open access policy. On-line publication allows to reduce publishing costs, and to make more agile the process of reviewing and edition. Intangible Capital defends that open access publishing fosters the advance of scientific knowledge, making it available to everyone. Intangible Capital publishes articles in English, Spanish and Catalan.