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The Paradoxical Effects Of Covid-19 Event Strength On Employee Turnover Intention, Hui Deng, Wenbing Wu, Yihua Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jing Ni
The Paradoxical Effects Of Covid-19 Event Strength On Employee Turnover Intention, Hui Deng, Wenbing Wu, Yihua Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jing Ni
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As a global pandemic, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought enormous challenges to employees and organizations. Although numerous existing studies have highlighted that the COVID-19 pandemic is a stressful event and empirically proved its detrimental effect on employee turnover intention, few scholars have noted that this pandemic can deteriorate the external economic and employment environment simultaneously, which may further complicate employees’ intentions to leave or stay in the current organization. Drawing on event system theory and social cognitive theory, this study aims to uncover two potential cognitive mechanisms of the complex impact of COVID-19 event strength on employee turnover intention. …