The dual threat of COVID-19 to health and job security – Exploring the role of mindfulness in sustaining frontline employee-related outcomes

Junyi Xie, Kemefasu Ifie and Thorsten Gruber

Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 146, issue C, 216-227

Abstract: Navigating the increasingly uncertain business world requires organizations and employees to be highly adaptive to threats and changes. During COVID-19, the dual threats to health and job security have been especially salient for frontline employees. Drawing on the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, we investigated individual and organizational mindfulness as valuable resources, which influence employee outcomes of preventative behaviors, emotional exhaustion, and job performance both directly, and indirectly through threat appraisals. We find that individual and organizational mindfulness influence threat appraisals in a “counterbalanced manner”: individual mindfulness decreases threat appraisals, while organizational mindfulness heightens the perceived threat of contracting COVID-19. The threat to health further serves as a double-edged sword, predicting both emotional exhaustion and preventative behaviors, while job insecurity impairs all employee outcomes. Based on these findings, we provide key implications for research and practice, and future research directions.

Keywords: COVID-19; Individual mindfulness; Organizational mindfulness; Emotional exhaustion; Preventative behaviors; Performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.03.030

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