IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mth/ijhr88/v10y2020i4p287-302.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Thriving from Challenges Stress: The Interactive Effect of Role Conflict, Time Pressure, and Negative Affect on Chinese Employees’ Work Engagement

Author

Listed:
  • Christophe RUKUNDO
  • Jean-Noel BEKA BE NGUEMA
  • Cynthia Atamba
  • Mohamed Habuba Halima
  • Akorfa Neku

Abstract

The present study examines role clarity as a hindrance stressor that influences how employees stay engaged in their work roles. The proposition is that two occupational stressors interact to impact work engagement via negative affect. Cross-sectional data were collected from working professionals pursuing an Executive MBA at a larger university in China to test the proposed model. Results from our field study (N = 237) revealed role conflict and time pressure as predictors of employees’ negative affect. Also, results reveal that time pressure moderated the association between role conflict and employees’ negative affect. These findings imply that two divergent occupational stressors can influence employee work-related outcomes. We concluded by discussing theoretical and practical implications.

Suggested Citation

  • Christophe RUKUNDO & Jean-Noel BEKA BE NGUEMA & Cynthia Atamba & Mohamed Habuba Halima & Akorfa Neku, 2020. "Thriving from Challenges Stress: The Interactive Effect of Role Conflict, Time Pressure, and Negative Affect on Chinese Employees’ Work Engagement," International Journal of Human Resource Studies, Macrothink Institute, vol. 10(4), pages 287302-2873, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:mth:ijhr88:v:10:y:2020:i:4:p:287-302
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijhrs/article/download/17989/13968
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijhrs/article/view/17989
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mth:ijhr88:v:10:y:2020:i:4:p:287-302. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Technical Support Office (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijhrs/index .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.