Ikobeng Winnie Makgetha, Ntseliseng Khumalo, Bernard Moeketsi Hlalele
Abstract
Employee job performance is crucial for organisations to achieve their goals efficiently and effectively. This phenomenon is influenced by several factors that significantly provide resources and guidance to teams, enabling them to complete their tasks successfully. This study investigated the mediation role of management support between psychological capital and job insecurity on employee job performance. The data were collected from 191 professionals working in the mining industry in South Africa. The reliability analysis results showed that the scale had a high reliability and internal consistency. The confirmatory factor analysis revealed that including the factor model significantly improved the fit of the model to the data.
The results of the multiple regression with mediation indicated that management support partially mediated the relationship between psychological capital and job insecurity on employee job performance. These findings suggest that management support is crucial in enhancing the positive effects of psychological capital and job insecurity on employee job performance. The practical implications of this study suggest that organisations should prioritise developing and fostering management support for their employees to improve employee job performance.