JDM (Jurnal Dinamika Manajemen)
Vol 14, No 2 (2023): September 2023

The Fear of Covid-19 and Perceived Employability Effect on Emotional Exhaustion and Work Engagement: The Mediating Role of Job Insecurity

Dewi, Putu Parama Cinthya (Unknown)
Martdianty, Fanny (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2023

Abstract

Frontline workers are one of the jobs affected due to Covid-19. Covid-19 events can have negative and positive consequences for frontline workers. This study aims to see how fear of covid affects employee emotional exhaustion during a pandemic. Based on the conservation of resources theory, fear of covid-19 can cause frontline workers to experience emotional exhaustion. In addition, during a pandemic, employees can feel high job insecurity, resulting in low work engagement in the company where employees work. The method used in this research is quantitative. Data analysis was performed on 259 company employees who worked as frontline workers using the Structural Equation Modeling technique. The results of the analysis show that fear of covid-19 has a positive effect on job insecurity, and job insecurity has a significant positive effect on emotional exhaustion. In addition, perceived employability has a positive and significant effect on job insecurity and a significant positive effect on work engagement. It is essential for companies to pay attention so that employees do not have high job insecurity and high emotional exhaustion and can create employee work engagement by conducting various kinds of training and health education to increase engagement and reduce employee fear of Covid.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jdm

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management

Description

Jurnal Dinamika Manajemen [p-ISSN: 2086-0668 | e-ISSN: 2337-5434] issued by the Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia, periodically (every 6 months) in March and September with the aim of disseminating information about the study of knowledge ...