Inferior Employment Status and Interpersonal Counterproductive Work Behavior:The Intervening Role of Relative Deprivation and Aggressive Affect
Fueled by the economic crises and increasing globalization,a growing number of organizations incorporating nonstandard work arrangements into the workforce to enhance organizational flexibility.However,despite acknowledging the array of negative impacts on incorporating temporary workers into the workforce,prior studies have yet to delve deeply into this issue,leaving limited understanding of how temporary workers are influenced by being a part of a blended workforce.Drawing on relative deprivation theory,this study proposes a sequential moderated mediation model in which inferior employment status activates relative deprivation and aggressive affect toward standard employees,and thereby spur interpersonal counterproductive work behavior.Using multi-wave and multi-source data from a sample of 320 nonstandard employees in China,results demonstrated that relative deprivation and aggressive affect towards standard employees sequentially mediate the effects of inferior employment status on interpersonal counterproductive work behavior,and perceptions of discrimination enhances the positive effects of perceptions of inferior employment status on interpersonal counterproductive work behavior through relative deprivation and aggressive affect toward standard employees.These findings provide implications for theory and practice.
Inferior Employment StatusInterpersonal Counterproductive Work BehaviorRelative DeprivationAggressive AffectDiscrimination
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