| Autor: |
Johnson, Hana, Bates, Jay, Keng, Fong T., Umphress, Elizabeth Eve |
| Zdroj: |
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings; 2021, Vol. 2021 Issue 1, p1-1, 1p |
| Abstrakt: |
The COVID-19 pandemic affects the personal and work lives of employees on a daily basis with constant and changing information regarding health ramifications, school closures, and staying at and working from home. However, those lower in social class appear to experience disproportionate negative health and economic outcomes. We utilize the cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotion to describe how employees of lower versus upper class differ in how they react to the salience of the COVID-19 pandemic, which subsequently influences their emotions and behavior. In an experiment and a field study, we either manipulate or measure COVID-19 salience and evaluate how higher levels of COVID-19 salience affect employees. We found that employees with higher levels of COVID-19 salience who were lower (versus higher) in social class reported higher COVID-19-related work anxiety when they also perceived their social class as highly central. In response to this work anxiety, employees experience emotional exhaustion thinking about how COVID-19 will affect their work in the future, which then results in avoidance behaviors as employees attempt to escape the threat posed by COVID-19. This work theoretically contributes to the organizational and psychology literatures and has practical implications for how organizations should help employees cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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