Transforming the Emotional Intelligence of the Feeders in Agribusinesses into the Development of Task Performance and Counterproductive Work Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Stanley Y B Huang,Ming-Way Li,Yue-Shi Lee

doi:10.3390/ani11113124

Abstract

Simple SummaryThis research proposes a psychological model to describe how leadership can deal with the work burnout of feeders in livestock production agribusinesses to solve the important problems of mental health and well-being, thereby increasing the sustainable work of feeders. The empirical evidence comes from 240 livestock feeders from 80 Taiwanese livestock production agribusinesses. The research results can push the literature of emotional intelligence and implementation methods to livestock production agribusinesses. The present research poses a novel multilevel model to describe how transformational leadership can significantly affect task performance and counterproductive work behavior through intermediary effects of emotional intelligence, work engagement, and work burnout. The empirical data is from 240 livestock feeders from 80 Taiwanese livestock production agribusinesses. The empirical results demonstrate that leadership could indeed transform the emotional intelligence of livestock feeders into positive task performance and negative counterproductive work behavior. The research results can provide an implementation method for livestock production agribusinesses to achieve the sustainable work of feeders in agribusinesses through handling task performance and counterproductive work behavior of feeders.

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Previous studies have examined that COVID-19 may infect the farm employees from livestock [5,6,7], so these livestock feeders need to face daily infections from livestock, which is the second source of work stress for feeders in agribusinesses
Because the data structure of this study is nested within multiple agribusinesses, we adopted the multilevel model [36] to analyze the multilevel framework
240, so further research should adopt more samples to test the framework in this survey. This survey proposes a multilevel model to argue that the TL can result in TP and CWB through the intermediary effects of EI, WE, and WB

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Introduction

The sudden COVID-19 pandemic caused many agricultural production restrictions to avoid the outbreak of COVID19, which caused major disruptions in the agricultural production supply chain [3]. It has caused difficulties in the production and sales of agricultural products and further caused the production workers in this field (such as the feeders of livestock production agribusinesses) to face huge unemployment pressure, which is the first source of work stress for feeders in agribusinesses.

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