Supervisor bottom-line mentality and employee workplace well-being: a multiple mediation model
ISSN: 1746-5265
Article publication date: 22 April 2024
Issue publication date: 6 May 2024
Abstract
Purpose
This study is intended to investigate the relationship between supervisor bottom-line mentality (BLM) and employee workplace well-being. In addition, this study discusses the mediating roles of perception of organizational politics and job anxiety in this relationship.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were gathered from a two-wave survey of 301 full-time employees in southern China. The PROCESS macro in SPSS was applied to test the hypotheses.
Findings
Results showed that supervisor BLM was negatively related to employee workplace well-being. Moreover, perceptions of organizational politics and job anxiety played multiple mediating roles in the relationship between supervisor BLM and employee workplace well-being.
Originality/value
Drawing on the conservation of resource (COR) theory and cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS) theory, this study proposes a multiple mediation model to advance our understanding of how supervisor BLM affects employee workplace well-being.
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Acknowledgements
This research was supported by a research grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 72272113, 72071052).
Citation
Guo, L., Du, J. and Zhang, J. (2024), "Supervisor bottom-line mentality and employee workplace well-being: a multiple mediation model", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 218-233. https://doi.org/10.1108/BJM-11-2023-0467
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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