Performance of Academic Staff during COVID-19 Pandemic-Induced Work Transformations: An IPO Model for Stress Management
The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected all spheres of services-related business, including the higher education sector. As a pre-emptive measure, almost all traditional educational institutions have been transformed into virtual organizations. This pandemic-induced work transition has created...
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| author | Muhammad Shoaib Ayesha Nawal Renata Korsakienė Roman Zámečník Asad Ur Rehman Agota Giedrė Raišienė |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected all spheres of services-related business, including the higher education sector. As a pre-emptive measure, almost all traditional educational institutions have been transformed into virtual organizations. This pandemic-induced work transition has created stress among academic staff and has hampered their performance. The present study aims to examine the impact of leadership behaviors, e-training, and employment security on the stress management process, consequently improving employee performance during and after the pandemic. Based on the IPO (input–process–output) model, this study examines the effect of leadership behavior, e-training, and employment security on teaching staff’s tasks and adaptive and contextual performance, mediated by stress management. To test the conceptual model, data were collected from the teaching staff of Malaysian universities. The structural equation modeling technique was used for data analysis, while bootstrapping with the maximum likelihood estimator was used to confirm the mediational role of stress management. The study revealed that task- and relation-oriented leadership behavior, e-training, and employment security positively influence stress management and employee performance in virtual organizations. Moreover, stress management acts as a full mediator in the relationship between leadership behavior and employee performance, while partial mediation occurs between e-training, employment security, and employee performance. This study offers valuable insights into the literature by proposing leadership behavior, e-training, and employment security as input in the stress management process to attain the performance output of teaching staff. Higher education institutions should come forward to assist their teaching employees in managing their stress levels for better outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a4f0a47a7ab149f494a0707757db5bb12023-11-23T19:36:33ZengMDPI AGEconomies2227-70992022-02-011025110.3390/economies10020051Performance of Academic Staff during COVID-19 Pandemic-Induced Work Transformations: An IPO Model for Stress ManagementMuhammad Shoaib0Ayesha Nawal1Renata Korsakienė2Roman Zámečník3Asad Ur Rehman4Agota Giedrė Raišienė5Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, 76001 Zlín, Czech RepublicFaculty of Business and Management, Sultan Zainal Abidin University, Kuala Nerus 21300, Terengganu, MalaysiaDepartment of Management, Vilnius University, LT-10222 Vilnius, LithuaniaDepartment of Business Administration, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, 76001 Zlín, Czech RepublicFaculty of Business and Management, Sultan Zainal Abidin University, Kuala Nerus 21300, Terengganu, MalaysiaDepartment of Management, Klaipėda University, LT-92227 Klaipėda, LithuaniaThe COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected all spheres of services-related business, including the higher education sector. As a pre-emptive measure, almost all traditional educational institutions have been transformed into virtual organizations. This pandemic-induced work transition has created stress among academic staff and has hampered their performance. The present study aims to examine the impact of leadership behaviors, e-training, and employment security on the stress management process, consequently improving employee performance during and after the pandemic. Based on the IPO (input–process–output) model, this study examines the effect of leadership behavior, e-training, and employment security on teaching staff’s tasks and adaptive and contextual performance, mediated by stress management. To test the conceptual model, data were collected from the teaching staff of Malaysian universities. The structural equation modeling technique was used for data analysis, while bootstrapping with the maximum likelihood estimator was used to confirm the mediational role of stress management. The study revealed that task- and relation-oriented leadership behavior, e-training, and employment security positively influence stress management and employee performance in virtual organizations. Moreover, stress management acts as a full mediator in the relationship between leadership behavior and employee performance, while partial mediation occurs between e-training, employment security, and employee performance. This study offers valuable insights into the literature by proposing leadership behavior, e-training, and employment security as input in the stress management process to attain the performance output of teaching staff. Higher education institutions should come forward to assist their teaching employees in managing their stress levels for better outcomes.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/10/2/51leadership behaviorse-trainingemployment securitystress managementemployee performanceteaching staff |
| spellingShingle | Muhammad Shoaib Ayesha Nawal Renata Korsakienė Roman Zámečník Asad Ur Rehman Agota Giedrė Raišienė Performance of Academic Staff during COVID-19 Pandemic-Induced Work Transformations: An IPO Model for Stress Management Economies leadership behaviors e-training employment security stress management employee performance teaching staff |
| title | Performance of Academic Staff during COVID-19 Pandemic-Induced Work Transformations: An IPO Model for Stress Management |
| title_full | Performance of Academic Staff during COVID-19 Pandemic-Induced Work Transformations: An IPO Model for Stress Management |
| title_fullStr | Performance of Academic Staff during COVID-19 Pandemic-Induced Work Transformations: An IPO Model for Stress Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Performance of Academic Staff during COVID-19 Pandemic-Induced Work Transformations: An IPO Model for Stress Management |
| title_short | Performance of Academic Staff during COVID-19 Pandemic-Induced Work Transformations: An IPO Model for Stress Management |
| title_sort | performance of academic staff during covid 19 pandemic induced work transformations an ipo model for stress management |
| topic | leadership behaviors e-training employment security stress management employee performance teaching staff |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/10/2/51 |
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