How negative affectivity moderates the relationship between shocks, embeddedness and worker behaviors

    Authors

    B. C. Holtom; J. P. Burton;C. D. Crossley

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Vocat. Behav.

    Keywords

    Turnover; Job embeddedness; Affective events; Organizational citizenship; behavior; Counterproductive work behavior; Job search behavior; ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR; VOLUNTARY TURNOVER; JOB; EMBEDDEDNESS; UNFOLDING MODEL; WORKPLACE DEVIANCE; EMPLOYEE TURNOVER; METAANALYSIS; RETALIATION; MILLENNIUM; MEDIATION; Psychology, Applied

    Abstract

    We integrated the unfolding model of turnover, job embeddedness theory and affective events theory to build and test a model specifying the relationship between negative shocks, on-the-job embeddedness and important employee behaviors. The results showed that embeddedness mediates the relationship between negative shocks and job search behaviors as well as counterproductive work behaviors. The study further examines the role of dispositional influences on reactions to negative workplace shocks and how these reactions affect organizational citizenship behavior, counterproductive work behavior and job search behavior. Results indicated a moderated-mediation effect of negative affectivity on each of these outcomes. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Vocational Behavior

    Volume

    80

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2012

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    434

    Last Page

    443

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000301687500020

    ISSN

    0001-8791

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