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Economic Stress at Work: Its Impact over Absenteeism and Innovation
Economic stress has been recognized as a major threat to the well-being and performance of workers, especially during times of global economic crisis. An interesting and relatively unexplored research topic concerns the associations between economic stress and employee job outcomes such as innovativ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8156033/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34063404 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105265 |
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author | Sanchez-Gomez, Martin Giorgi, Gabriele Finstad, Georgia Libera Alessio, Federico Ariza-Montes, Antonio Arcangeli, Giulio Mucci, Nicola |
author_facet | Sanchez-Gomez, Martin Giorgi, Gabriele Finstad, Georgia Libera Alessio, Federico Ariza-Montes, Antonio Arcangeli, Giulio Mucci, Nicola |
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description | Economic stress has been recognized as a major threat to the well-being and performance of workers, especially during times of global economic crisis. An interesting and relatively unexplored research topic concerns the associations between economic stress and employee job outcomes such as innovative behaviors, indispensable for business survival. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between economic stress, absenteeism and innovation. We considered both a direct and a mediation hypothesis and hypothesized that economic stress can have a negative influence on innovation directly and indirectly through increased absenteeism. A cross-sectional study was performed during 2018 and 2019 in an Italian food factory. A sample of 578 employees completed the Stress Questionnaire, the Janssen’s nine-item scale and a single-item regarding absenteeism. All relationships are supported by empirical data. As expected, the results indicated that economic stress is negatively related to innovation and positively related to absenteeism, which, in turn, plays a mediating role in the relationship between economic stress and innovative behavior. Herewith, those employees with higher levels of economic stress show higher levels of absenteeism contributing at the same time to a decrease in innovative behaviors. These findings show the importance of economic stress in understanding individual work outcomes and highlight the need to promote adequate intervention programs. |
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spelling | pubmed-81560332021-05-28 Economic Stress at Work: Its Impact over Absenteeism and Innovation Sanchez-Gomez, Martin Giorgi, Gabriele Finstad, Georgia Libera Alessio, Federico Ariza-Montes, Antonio Arcangeli, Giulio Mucci, Nicola Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Economic stress has been recognized as a major threat to the well-being and performance of workers, especially during times of global economic crisis. An interesting and relatively unexplored research topic concerns the associations between economic stress and employee job outcomes such as innovative behaviors, indispensable for business survival. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between economic stress, absenteeism and innovation. We considered both a direct and a mediation hypothesis and hypothesized that economic stress can have a negative influence on innovation directly and indirectly through increased absenteeism. A cross-sectional study was performed during 2018 and 2019 in an Italian food factory. A sample of 578 employees completed the Stress Questionnaire, the Janssen’s nine-item scale and a single-item regarding absenteeism. All relationships are supported by empirical data. As expected, the results indicated that economic stress is negatively related to innovation and positively related to absenteeism, which, in turn, plays a mediating role in the relationship between economic stress and innovative behavior. Herewith, those employees with higher levels of economic stress show higher levels of absenteeism contributing at the same time to a decrease in innovative behaviors. These findings show the importance of economic stress in understanding individual work outcomes and highlight the need to promote adequate intervention programs. MDPI 2021-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8156033/ /pubmed/34063404 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105265 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sanchez-Gomez, Martin Giorgi, Gabriele Finstad, Georgia Libera Alessio, Federico Ariza-Montes, Antonio Arcangeli, Giulio Mucci, Nicola Economic Stress at Work: Its Impact over Absenteeism and Innovation |
title | Economic Stress at Work: Its Impact over Absenteeism and Innovation |
title_full | Economic Stress at Work: Its Impact over Absenteeism and Innovation |
title_fullStr | Economic Stress at Work: Its Impact over Absenteeism and Innovation |
title_full_unstemmed | Economic Stress at Work: Its Impact over Absenteeism and Innovation |
title_short | Economic Stress at Work: Its Impact over Absenteeism and Innovation |
title_sort | economic stress at work: its impact over absenteeism and innovation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8156033/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34063404 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105265 |
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