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Too much of a good thing: The interactive effects of cultural values and core job characteristics on hindrance stressors and employee performance outcomes
Author(s) -
Naseer Saima,
Donia Magda Bezerra Leite,
Syed Fauzia,
Bashir Fatima
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
human resource management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.888
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1099-050X
pISSN - 0090-4848
DOI - 10.1002/hrm.21993
Subject(s) - stressor , psychology , social psychology , job performance , core self evaluations , moderated mediation , mediation , hofstede's cultural dimensions theory , cultural values , coping (psychology) , job attitude , job satisfaction , clinical psychology , sociology , social science
This study contributes to research on core job characteristics by examining when employees may perceive enriched jobs as a hindrance stressor and in turn may experience lower performance at work. Utilizing time‐lagged data collected from a sample of 386 employee–coworker dyads and drawing on cognitive appraisal theory of stress and coping, we explore the mediating role of hindrance stressors on the relationship between core job characteristics and key employee performance outcomes (i.e., creativity, counterproductive work behaviors, in‐role performance, and organizational citizenship behaviors) and the moderating roles of cultural values (i.e., power distance and uncertainty avoidance) in influencing this mediation. The results supported the hypotheses, providing evidence that the experience of hindrance stressors mediates the relationship between core job characteristics and job performance outcomes when employees score high on power distance and uncertainty avoidance cultural values, and not when their scores on these cultural values were low. Practical implications and future research are discussed.