Journal
STRESS AND HEALTH
Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 329-340Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/smi.2998
Keywords
conservation of resources theory; CWB; temporary workers
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Research shows that temporary work quality varies greatly, and temporary workers may experience harmful work stressors that lead to detrimental outcomes. Economic hardship, interpersonal conflict, and organizational constraints can lead to emotional exhaustion in temporary workers, subsequently resulting in increased counterproductive work behaviors. Higher job insecurity and interpersonal conflict levels may also lead to increased moral disengagement, contributing to more frequent CWBs.
Recent research on temporary work has suggested that temporary work experiences vary greatly in quality. In light of concerns about diminished quality of some temporary work experiences, we suggest that temporary workers may experience a variety of stressful work situations that could precipitate detrimental outcomes not only for these workers, but also for their co-workers and organizations. Using a multi-wave survey of temporary workers, this study examines the relationship between economic, interpersonal, and organizational stressors and counterproductive work behaviour (CWB). Specifically, we hypothesize that economic stressors (operationalized as economic hardship and job insecurity), interpersonal conflict and organizational constraints will predict the extent to which temporary workers perform CWB via emotional exhaustion and moral disengagement pathways. Three waves of data show that temporary workers experiencing higher levels of economic hardship, interpersonal conflict and organizational constraints reported greater emotional exhaustion, which was linked to increased frequency of CWBs. Additionally, higher levels of job insecurity and interpersonal conflict were related to higher levels of moral disengagement, which related to increased frequency of CWBs. These findings highlight relationships of different stressors with emotional and cognitive reactions that may trigger CWB in temporary workers.
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