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When “embedded” means “stuck” : moderating effects of job embeddedness in adverse work environments
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Allen, David G., Pelkotorpi, V. and Rubenstein, A. L. (2016) When “embedded” means “stuck” : moderating effects of job embeddedness in adverse work environments. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101 (12). pp. 1670-1686. doi:10.1037/apl0000134 ISSN 0021-9010.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000134
Abstract
Job embeddedness is predominately assumed to benefit employees, work groups, and organizations (e.g., higher performance, social cohesion, and lower voluntary turnover). Challenging this assumption, we examined the potentially negative outcomes that may occur if employees are embedded in an adverse work environment - feeling “stuck”, yet unable to exit a negative situation. More specifically, we considered two factors representing adverse work conditions: abusive supervision and job insecurity. Drawing from conservation-of-resources theory, we hypothesized that job embeddedness would moderate the relationship between these conditions and outcomes of voluntary turnover, physical health, emotional exhaustion, and sleep quality/quantity, such that employees embedded in more adverse environments would be less likely to quit, but would experience more negative personal outcomes. Results from two independent samples, one in Japan (N=597) and one in the United States (N=283), provide support for the hypothesized pattern of interaction effects, thereby highlighting a largely neglected “dark side” of job embeddedness.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Employee retention, Employees--Abuse of, Supervision of employees, Employees--Job stress, Burn out (Psychology), Work environment, Bullying in the workplace | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Applied Psychology | ||||||
Publisher: | American Psychological Association | ||||||
ISSN: | 0021-9010 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 December 2016 | ||||||
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Volume: | 101 | ||||||
Number: | 12 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1670-1686 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1037/apl0000134 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 June 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 May 2017 | ||||||
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