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Does Approach Crafting Always Benefit? The Moderating Role of Job Insecurity
Eryue Teng1, Li Zhang1, Ming Lou1
1Harbin Institute of Technology.
Abstract:
By integrating job demands-resources theory with social information processing theory, we examined how and when seeking challenges and seeking resources influence employees' turnover intention and helping behavior. We propose that seeking challenges and seeking resources increase employees' psychological capital. We furthermore suggest that the effects of seeking challenges and seeking resources on psychological capital are moderated by job insecurity, such that employees with high job insecurity will gain more psychological capital through seeking challenges and less psychological capital through seeking resources. Results from a multiwave, multisource study using a sample of 245 supervisor-subordinate dyads provided support for our hypotheses. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
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