Work alienation as a mediator between work from home-related isolation, loss of task identity and job insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Mehta, Prashant

doi:10.1108/ijwhm-03-2021-0070

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“…Job insecurity during COVID-19 had a significant and positive influence on professional isolation (β = 0.145; T-value = 3.456; p < 0.010); therefore, H8 can be accepted. The literature [25,71,72] pointed out that job insecurity is linked to employee isolation.…”

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“…In such contexts, job insecurity increases and employees develop legitimate fears regarding their organisational belonging, etc. [25,71,72]. Therefore, we assess that:…”

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“…Job insecurity is a negative factor in performance; individuals who experience job insecurity exhibit low levels of job satisfaction [8,9], and are thus prone to counterproductive work behaviours [91][92][93], social and/or professional isolation [25,71,72], or turnover intentions [94]. The impact of job insecurity on professional isolation is poorly researched in the pandemic context.…”

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Negative Impact of Telework, Job Insecurity, and Work–Life Conflict on Employee Behaviour

Nemțeanu

Dabija

2023

IJERPH

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The COVID-19 pandemic imposed a large-scale adoption of teleworking in various fields, accepted by many employers as the ideal solution to protect their employees against the risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2. Working from home generated substantial savings for organisations and also contributed to alleviating employee stress. In addition to the potential positive effects, telework during COVID-19 favoured counterproductive behaviour, job insecurity, and intention to retire because of the negative outcomes generated by the growing conflict between personal life and working from home and professional and social isolation. The purpose of this research is to define and analyse a conceptual model capable of highlighting the way in which telework, job insecurity, and work–life conflict led to professional isolation and turnover intention, and finally, to the counterproductive behaviour of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research was implemented using employees in Romania, an emerging European economy severely affected by the recent pandemic. The results have been analysed with the help of structural equations in SmartPLS, thus reflecting a significant influence of teleworking on work–life conflict, professional isolation, intentions, and insecurity during the pandemic. The insecurity of employees trained in teleworking contributes significantly to enhancing work–life conflict and professional isolation.

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“…In such contexts, job insecurity increases and employees develop legitimate fears regarding their organisational belonging, etc. [25,71,72]. Therefore, we assess that:…”

Section: Antecedents and The Effects Of Telework In A Pandemic Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Hypothesis 7 (H7) Covid-19 Job Insecurity Worsened Work-life...mentioning

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Negative Impact of Telework, Job Insecurity, and Work–Life Conflict on Employee Behaviour

Nemțeanu

Dabija

2023

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“…Anh et al (2022) argue that employees reported the lack of a healthy office desk and space to allow healthy working conditions, but the author's findings have reflected that some employers are providing office furniture or allowing employees to take their office facilities home with them. In addition, according to Mehta (2022), the theory of self-determination is useful was useful in knowing how employees managed to adjust and adapt to the rapidly to the conditions for working from home.…”

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Online Work from Home: Issues and Challenges

Uwaisi¹,

Devi²

2022

IJARBSS

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Work from home has become a new normal because of COVID pandemic in the business world. However, as the world is recovering from the pandemic through normalizing the business activities, it has posed a tough challenge for existing staff. Keeping a work life balance is an important aspect for the business organizations. The case firm is Oman Arab Bank (OAB), and the research work will emphasize on the issues and challenges of online work from home. Due to technological innovations, work from home allowed flexibility and personalization to the existing staff. The recent pandemic has highlighted the benefits and challenges of working from home. The research paper will use convenient sampling by targeting OAB employees from head office for their working from home. The purpose of this study is to investigate how OAB employees collaborate online work from home (WFH) during pandemic. Shift of working culture will be analyzed based on employee satisfaction levels. Secondary data will be analyzed based on critical literature review of WFH and its issues and challenges faced by employees.

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“…When the studies are examined in detail, it is seen that this process is often associated with two different concepts separately. These concepts are the concept of "alienation", which is one of the research areas of social psychology, and "social anhedonia", which is a neuropsychological concept [11][12][13][14].…”

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The negative effects of the pandemic on human behavior; alienation and social anhedonia: the example of sport sciences students

Akgül

Tekin

2022

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Background and Study Aim. The social change brought about by the pandemic process all over the world has led to the restructuring of human behavior and daily life practices. This process has brought with it some social-psychological problems (such as alienation and social anhedonia) for social segments. For this reason, the aim of the research is to examine the alienation and social anhedonia levels of the students studying at the faculty of sport sciences during the pandemic process. Material and Methods. The sample of the research consists of students studying at the faculties of sport sciences of different universities in Turkey. A total of 423 students (271 males, 152 females) participated in the study. Due to the normal distribution of the data, the t-test, one of the parametric tests, was performed for paired groups, and the relationship between Social Anhedonia Scale and Alienation Scale sub-dimensions was tested with Pearson correlation analysis. Statistical analyzes were performed with the “Statistical Package for the Social Sciences” commercial software (SPSS for Windows, version 26.0, SPSS). The significance level was determined as p<0.05 in the analyzes, and skewness and kurtosis values were considered for the normality analysis. Results. According to the results obtained, it can be said that the pandemic process negatively affected the social anhedonia and alienation levels of male students studying at the faculty of sport sciences compared to female students. Again, it is seen that the level of alienation of the students who do sports at the professional level is higher than the students who do sports at the amateur level. Similarly, it is seen that the students of the faculty of sport sciences dealing with team sports have higher levels of social isolation, which is one of the sub-dimensions of the alienation scale, compared to the students who are engaged in individual sports. Finally, there is a negative and low-level significant relationship between social anhedonia and alienation scale sub-dimensions (p<0.05; r=-0.187; r=-0.164; r=-132). Conclusions. As a result, it can be said that the pandemic process has had similar negative effects on the students studying in the faculties of sport sciences, as in other social segments.

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Work alienation as a mediator between work from home-related isolation, loss of task identity and job insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 17 publications

References 100 publications

Negative Impact of Telework, Job Insecurity, and Work–Life Conflict on Employee Behaviour

Negative Impact of Telework, Job Insecurity, and Work–Life Conflict on Employee Behaviour

Online Work from Home: Issues and Challenges

The negative effects of the pandemic on human behavior; alienation and social anhedonia: the example of sport sciences students

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