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Shanting Zheng1, Tangli Ding2, Hao Chen3
1School of Tourism and Events, Hefei University, Hefei 230601, China.
Abstract:
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.
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