Manager Characteristics and Employee Job Insecurity around a Merger Announcement: The Role of Status and Crossover
Publication Date
2015
Document Type
Article
Abstract
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, whereas 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.
Original Citation
Lam, J., Fox, K., Fan, W., Moen, P., Kelly, E., Hammer, L. and Kossek, E. E. (2015). Manager Characteristics and Employee Job Insecurity around a Merger Announcement: The Role of Status and Crossover. The Sociological Quarterly. 56(3), 558-580. https://doi.org/10.1111/tsq.12092
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Virtual Commons Citation
Lam, Jack; Fox, Kimberly; Fan, Wen; Moen, Phyllis; Kelly, Erin; Hammer, Leslie; and Ernst Kossek, Ellen (2015). Manager Characteristics and Employee Job Insecurity around a Merger Announcement: The Role of Status and Crossover. In Sociology Faculty Publications. Paper 24.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/sociology_fac/24