PurposeThe ongoing dispute as to whether using technology extensively at work may cause harm continues to gain momentum. Thus, the need for more research on the harmful effect of using technology at work and on the indirect effects on work performance is needed. The call for additional moderators in technostress research is still ongoing. The research contributes to the abovementioned gaps in the literature by analyzing a model with two moderators.Design/methodology/approachThe sample population was chosen randomly from the lists provided by civil-servant unions and the chamber of commerce subsidiaries in the northwest region of Turkey. The employees received letters that explained the purpose of the study; the questionnaires sent to them. Out of 500 forms, 328 were returned. PLS-SEM technique was selected for hypothesis testing.FindingsThe results revealed support for all the hypotheses, and proposed moderators can be used to mitigate the harms of technostress and burnout. The findings have implications for both theory and practice.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation of this research is its sample characteristics. Due to the cross-sectional nature of the data set, it is difficult to claim causality. Therefore, readers should use caution when extending generalizations to a broader population. As for the theoretical implications, the interest in the challenges posed by various technologies in the workplace on human psychology and health over the long term is quite new. And there is still room for other mediating and moderating mechanism for the interplay between technostress and related outcomes.Practical implicationsOne of the practical implications is that technology at work might have the potential to create stress, sometimes greater than its benefits. The effects that might be created by other sources of stress when combined with stress related to technology in the workplace should also be taken seriously. There are tools to reduce the harm caused by technostress that practitioners could make use of such as time-management interventions.Originality/valueThe dispute whether using technology extensively at work may cause harm rather than advantage continues to confuse people, and with time it is gaining momentum. Thus, there is necessity for more research on the harms of technology, and especially on the indirect effects on work performance. Second, the vast technostress literature seems to neglect to discern task performance from contextual one as the dependent variable. Lastly, the call for additional moderators in technostress research is still prevailing. The research contributes to the abovementioned gaps in the literature by analyzing a model with two moderators.

While workplace leadership is widely discussed in the management literature, less is known about the outcomes and influence process of leaders, under which xenophobic behaviours are generating. In other words, even if xenophobia is likely to be generated from economic losses and social factors according to literature, leadership can deliberately produce a “hostile environment” for migrant employees. This paper scrutinizes the effect of paternalistic leadership and its dimensions on xenophobia in the context of business organizations. Besides, the life satisfaction factor has been functionalized as a moderator in this process. Cross-sectional survey data (n=395) were obtained from employees and analysed with a variance-based structural equation modelling (VB-SEM) and multivariate regression technique. Research findings prevail that paternalistic leadership significantly decreases personal or individual fears, on the other hand; it increases political and cultural fears against “others” in organizations. To avoid xenophobia, a special effort should be made to ensure that the relevant styles and broader organizational context are accurately assessed when reducing fear against others.

Örgütsel bağlılığın işletmelerin sürdürülebilir rekabet avantajına olan olumlu etkisi iş hayatında her geçen gün daha fazla kabul edilen bir gerçeklik olmaktadır. Örgütsel bağlılığın olumlu sonuçlarının gözlemlendiği araştırmaların yanında bazı araştırmalarda olumsuz sonuçları da gözlenmektedir. Örgütsel bağlılığın olumsuz sonuçlarından bir tanesi olarak gözlenen işkoliklik davranışlar çalışanların kendilerini sürekli çalışmaktan alıkoyamamasını ifade etmektedir. Performans çalışanların örgütlerin amaçları doğrultusundaki olumlu çıktılarını ifade etmektedir. İşkolikliğin örgütsel bağlılığın performans üzerindeki olumlu etkisini azaltacağının öngörüldüğü bu araştırma modelinde veriler IBM SPSS 21 ve Process 3.0 kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Sinop ilinde faaliyet gösteren bir işletmenin 155 çalışanı araştırma örneklemini oluşturmaktadır. Verilerin analiz sonuçlarına göre işkolikliğin örgütsel bağlılık ve performans arasında kısmi aracılık etkisi gözlenmiştir.

Many studies revealing that sociocultural norms affect teachers' perceptions and behaviors lead us to question the role of different variables in the perception of burnout. It is observed that the perception of burnout, which has been investigated for nearly 50 years, affects not only health workers, but also service sectors such as education, banking and care services. It is generally emphasized in researches that the perception of burnout observed in studies in Western individual societies can also be observed in Eastern collectivist societies. In most of studies related to burnout syndrome, psychological empowerment is accepted as a predictor however no study offers that individualistic trends may also affect burnout. Besides the effects of collectivist trends have not been studied. Within the framework of the theory of conservation of resources, the effect of individual and collectivist tendencies on burnout and the moderator role of psychological empowerment perception were questioned in this study. In the study, 16 item individualism and collectivist perception scale, which was validated in Turkish by Uzbek (2010), 22 item The Maslach Burnout Scale (MTÖ) which was validated in Turlkish by Ergin (1992), 12 item psychological empowerment scale, which was validated in Turkish by Altindish and Özutku (2011) were used. 207 teachers working in public schools consisted the sample group of research. The data gathered through face to face surveys were analyzed by SPSS 22 and Process 3.= version macro. According to the results of tests mediation role of psychological empowerment is observed between individualism and burnout but has not been observed between collectivism and burnout

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