title: Manager Characteristics and Employee Job Insecurity around a Merger Announcement: The Role of Status and Crossover.
abstract: Most existing research theorizes individual factors as predictors of perceived job insecurity. Incorporating contextual and organizational factors at an information technology organization where a merger was announced during data collection, we draw on status expectations and crossover theories to investigate whether managers' characteristics and insecurity shape their employees' job insecurity. We find having an Asian as opposed to a White manager is associated with lower job insecurity, while managers' own insecurity positively predicts employees' insecurity. Also contingent on the organizational climate, managers' own tenure buffers, and managers' perceived job insecurity magnifies insecurity of employees interviewed after a merger announcement, further specifying status expectations theory by considering context.
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: Bridgewater State University.
authors.forename: Kimberly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Phyllis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Moen
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.affiliation: Portland State University.
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hammer
authors.affiliation: Purdue University.
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kossek
keywords: Perceived job insecurity; crossover; managers; merger announcement; status expectations