Economic crisis and the employee: The effects of economic crisis on employee job satisfaction, commitment, and self-regulation
Economic crisis and the employee: The effects of economic crisis on employee job satisfaction, commitment, and self-regulation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.emj.2013.09.005
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发表时间：
2014-06
影响因子：
7.5
通讯作者：
Y. Markovits;Diana Boer;R. Dick
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作者：
Y. Markovits;Diana Boer;R. Dick
希腊从2009年开始经历了一场严重的危机。本文探讨了最近的经济危机在希腊员工的工作相关的态度，通过监管重点的变化的影响。我们在危机期间收集了大量异质性员工样本（N= 1024）的数据，并将其与五年前接受调查的员工样本（N= 882）进行了比较，即，在危机之前。参与者报告了他们的工作满意度，组织承诺和自我监管的重点。结果显示，正如预期的那样，参与者开始后的危机是较低的外在工作满意度，情感的组织承诺，也（意外）较低的规范性承诺，而这些态度的变化被解释为减少晋升导向和预防重点增加。出乎意料的是，危机前和危机样本在持续承诺水平上没有差异。本文作出了相关的贡献表明，威胁性的危机事件不仅有负面影响的工作相关的成果，而且在监管焦点的变化发生和解释态度的变化，表明适应机制的威胁情况下的经济危机。
Greece has been suffering a severe crisis starting in about 2009. This paper examines the impact of the recent economic crisis in Greece on employee work-related attitudes via changes in regulatory focus. We collected data in a large and heterogeneous sample of employees (N= 1024) during the crisis and compared them with a matched sample of employees surveyed (N= 882) half a decade earlier, i.e., before the crisis. Participants reported their job satisfaction, organizational commitment and their self-regulatory focus. Results show, as expected, that participants after start of the crisis were lower in extrinsic job satisfaction, affective organizational commitment and were also (unexpectedly) lower in normative commitment, while these attitudinal changes were explained by decreased promotion orientation and increased prevention focus. Rather unexpectedly, pre-crisis and crisis samples did not differ in levels of continuance commitment. This paper makes a relevant contribution by showing that the threatening crisis event does not only have negative effects on work-related outcomes, but also that changes in regulatory foci occur and explain attitudinal change indicating an adaptive mechanism to the threatening situation of an economic crisis.