Abstract
Negative social interactions, such as workplace incivility, show a strong connection to work-related negative outcomes, such as exhaustion or intention to quit. Despite being aware of the important role of incivility in employees’ working life, there is still a lack of research on moderators and mediators in the relationship of incivility and work-related outcomes. In the present study, the moderating roles of stress, recovery and value incongruence on the relationship of incivility with intention to quit are analyzed. We approach this research question using following the theoretical concepts of the Risk Management Model and the dysempowerment theory. The study was prepared as online study. With the data of 371 participants the research question was investigated with a structural equation model (SEM). The overall fit of the modified structural model was satisfying. Supervisor incivility has significant negative effects on the experience of value congruence as well as stress and recovery at the workplace. This in turn leads to a higher intention to leave the organization. Coworker incivility showed a strong relation to supervisor incivility but showed only a significant effect on work-related recovery. The current research represents an important step in developing an understanding of the effects of workplace incivility on the employee’s value congruence, experience of stress, recovery and the intention to quit.
Highlights
The quality of social interactions at work is known to play an important role in the employees’ well-being at the workplace
Most participants were working full time (44.2%), followed by 35% working part-time and 20.7% working full-time with regularly overtime hours. 16.1% of the participants worked in their current organization for less than two years, 34.5% worked in their organization for two to ten years, 49.3% worked in their organization for more than ten years. 39.4% of the people were working in a leading position, 7.5% stated to be the owner of the company
The main goal of the present study was to take a closer look at the relation between workplace incivility and employee’s experience of stress, recovery, value congruence and the intention to quit by combining theories of Risk Management Model and dysempowerment theory
Summary
The quality of social interactions at work is known to play an important role in the employees’ well-being at the workplace. Despite being aware of the important role of incivility in employees’ working life, there is still a lack of research of moderators and mediators in the relationship between incivility and work-related outcomes (MinerRubino & Reed, 2010). We focus on identifying the moderating roles of stress, recovery and value incongruence on the incivility-intention to quit relationship. We approach this research question using following theoretical concepts: Risk Management Model (Leiter, 2013) and dysempowerment theory (Kane & Montgomery, 1998)
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