Manager Characteristics and Employee Job Insecurity around a Merger Announcement: The Role of Status and Crossover

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• Alternative Title:
  Sociol Q
• Personal Author:
  Lam, Jack ; Fox, Kimberly ; Fan, Wen ; Moen, Phyllis ; Kelly, Erin ; Hammer, Leslie ; Kossek, Ellen
• 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.
• Keywords:
  Crossover Managers Merger Announcement Perceived Job Insecurity Status Expectations
• Source:
  Sociol Q. 56(3):558-580
• Pubmed ID:
  26190868
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4504681
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R24 HD041023/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051217/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 OH008788/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01 AG027669/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD059773/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051256/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R03 AG046393/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051276/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051218/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bb4b056c52bd9d668ffabfbbc859ab3c2acbc4fb5cae693226e9288cc00f79c9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/42057/cdc_42057_DS1.pdf
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