Influence of job insecurity on coal miners’ safety performance: the role of emotional exhaustion
ISSN: 1750-614X
Article publication date: 12 November 2021
Issue publication date: 25 November 2022
Abstract
Purpose
Under the de-capacity circumstances of coal production in China, the purpose of this paper is to examine the processes underlying the association between job insecurity (JI) and miners’ safety performance, proposing that resource consumption is a prominent theoretical explanation for this association. By developing a mediation model, the authors examined the mediating role of emotional exhaustion (EE) between JI and miners’ safety performance.
Design/methodology/approach
Through the time-lagged survey method, the authors collected 349 samples from three coal mines in Shanxi Lu’an Group, the hypotheses were tested through confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation model analysis and bootstrapping in AMOS software.
Findings
Results shed light on that JI negatively predicts the safety performance subfactors, including safety compliance (SC) and safety participation (SP). EE plays a partial mediating role between JI and safety performance. In particular, the finding indicated that JI exerts a more significant impact on SP than SC, revealing that JI produces a more significant adverse effect on miners’ conscious safety behaviors than skill-based safety behaviors.
Originality/value
This study contributes to display the influence path of JI as a stressor on miners’ safety performance in the coal mine rather than a stimulus. The mediation model results not only help us understand the association between JI and safety performance but also provide a feasible way to mitigate the negative effects of JI.
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Acknowledgements
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project [grant number 51422404], Shanxi Humanities and Social Sciences Base Project [grant number P0201808] and 2020 Shanxi Province Graduate Education Innovation Project [grant number 2020SY488]. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on our manuscript.
Citation
Yi, T., Dong, Y. and Li, J. (2022), "Influence of job insecurity on coal miners’ safety performance: the role of emotional exhaustion", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 1254-1270. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-10-2020-0455
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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