TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Ma, Bing
A1  - Liu, Shanshi
A1  - Laßleben, Hermann
A1  - Ma, Guimei
T1  - The relationships between job insecurity, psychological contract breach and counterproductive workplace behavior: does employment status matter?
JF  - Personnel review
N2  - Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of psychological contract breach on the relationship between job insecurity and counterproductive workplace behavior (CWB) and the moderating effect of employment status in this relationship.
Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 212 supervisor–subordinate dyads in a large Chinese state-owned air transportation group. AMOS 17.0 software was used to examine the hypothesized predictions and the theoretical model.
Findings – The results showed that psychological contract breach partially mediates the effect of job insecurity on CWB, including organizational counterproductive workplace behavior and interpersonal counterproductive workplace behavior. In addition, the relationships between job insecurity, psychological contract breach and CWB differ significantly between permanent workers and contract workers.
Originality/value – The present study provides a new insight into explaining the linkage between job insecurity and negative work behaviors as well as suggestions to managers on minimizing the harmful effects of job insecurity.
KW  - psychological contract breach
KW  - job insecurity
KW  - permanent workers
KW  - contract workers
KW  - quantitative
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 0048-3486
SS  - 0048-3486
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-04-2018-0138
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-04-2018-0138
VL  - 48
IS  - 2
SP  - 595
EP  - 610
S1  - 16
PB  - Emerald
CY  - Bingley
ER  -