The Employees' Well-Being as a Mediator of Work Stress and Job Insecurity Influences on Health Workers’ Performance During Covid-19 Pandemic Era

Achmad Mohyi; Agus Setia Budi; Nazaruddin Malik; Manah Tarman

doi:10.32535/ijabim.v9i1.2945

The Employees' Well-Being as a Mediator of Work Stress and Job Insecurity Influences on Health Workers’ Performance During Covid-19 Pandemic Era

Achmad Mohyi, Agus Setia Budi, Nazaruddin Malik, Manah Tarman

Abstract

This study aims to analyze and examine the role of employees' well-being in mediating the effect of work stress and job insecurity on the performance of health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research is explanatory research with data collection methods using survey methods through distributing questionnaires. Respondents in this study were 187 health workers who worked in a hospital in East Java, Indonesia. Data analysis using Partial Least Square. The results showed that work stress had a negative and insignificant effect on the performance of health workers, job insecurity had a negative and significant effect on the performance of health workers, while employees' well-being had a positive and significant effect on the performance of health workers. Job stress has a negative but not significant effect on employees' wellbeing and job insecurity has a negative and significant effect on employees' wellbeing. The results of testing the indirect effect show that employees' well-being is not able to mediate the effect of work stress on the performance of health workers in a negative and insignificant way, while the effect of job insecurity on the performance of health workers employees' well-being is able to mediate negatively and significantly The conclusion of this research is that work stress, job insecurity, and employees' wellbeing are very important for improving performance.

Keywords

Employee Performance; Employee Welfare; Job Insecurity; Job Stress

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32535/ijabim.v9i1.2945