Manager characteristics and employee job insecurity around a merger announcement: the role of status and crossover

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• Personal Author:
  Fan W ; Fox K ; Hammer L ; Kelly E ; Kossek EE ; Lam J ; Moen P
• Description:
  Most existing research theorizes individual factors as predictors of perceived job insecurity. Incorporating contextual and organizational factors at an information technology organization where a merger was announced during data collection, we draw on status expectations and crossover theories to investigate whether managers' characteristics and insecurity shape their employees' job insecurity. We find having an Asian as opposed to a White manager is associated with lower job insecurity, while managers' own insecurity positively predicts employees' insecurity. Also contingent on the organizational climate, managers' own tenure buffers, and managers' perceived job insecurity magnifies insecurity of employees interviewed after a merger announcement, further specifying status expectations theory by considering context. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Decision Making Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Administration Author Keywords: Perceived Job Insecurity Behavior Patterns Crossover Decision Making Emotional Stress Employees Job Stress Management Personnel Managers Merger Announcement Occupational Sociology Racial Factors Sociological Factors Sociology Status Expectations Work Operations Work Organization

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• ISSN:
  0038-0253
• Publisher:
  Midwest Sociological Society
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; Massachusetts ; Minnesota ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048212
• Citation:
  Sociol Q 2015 Summer; 56(3):558-580
• Contact Point Address:
  Jack Lam, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 909 Social Sciences, 267 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455
• Email:
  lamxx142@umn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  The Sociological Quarterly
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3e7abcb27818b7607ad52c17062b38558a1070fde24285c890fdb2fc1cdee2bad8d2666220a5d0d308dbf5e1c8b687f40a63f5b998608b3ab4ba5f1a3badf4bb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203023/cdc_203023_DS1.pdf
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