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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022

COVID-19-Induced Downsizing and Survivors' Syndrome: The Moderating Role of Transformational Leadership.

Farah Samreen, Sadaf Nagi, Rabia Naseem, Habib Gul

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Farah SamreenInstitute of Business and Management, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
Sadaf NagiDepartment of Business Administration, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Rabia NaseemInstitute of Business and Management, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
Habib GulSchool of Graduate Studies MBA Department, Kardan University, Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Abstract

Downsizing due to COVID-19 (COV-DS) and its consequences on laid-off employees has attracted the attention of many researchers, around the globe. However, the underlying mechanisms that explain the effects of COVID-19 downsizing (COV-DS) on the employees who have survived cutoffs remain underexplored. Grounded in the conservation of resources theory, this manuscript aims to study the causal path through which COV-DS reduces the survivors' affective commitment. The current study proposes the mediation of survivors' job uncertainty, stress, and organizational identification between COV-DS and survivors' affective commitment. This study also posits the moderating role of transformational leadership between COV-DS and both the mediators. The extant study has employed WARPED partial least square WARP PLS 7 and Hayes Process Macro to test the hypothesized relationships. Using the sample of 274 employees from the private sector of Pakistan, it was found that job uncertainty's stress strongly mediates the relationship between COV-DS and survivors' affective commitment. While mediation of survivors' organizational identification was not proven to be significant. However, with the moderation of transformational leadership, both the mediators were proven to be significant.

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affective commitmentCOVID-19job uncertainty stressorganizational identificationsurvivor’s syndrometransformational leadership

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