Role of Organizational Dehumanization and Employee Resilience Between Job Insecurity and Emotional Exhaustion: A Moderated-Mediation Analysis

This study examines whether organizational dehumanization mediates the relationship between job insecurity and emotional exhaustion and whether employee resilience moderates the mediating effect. An online questionnaire was completed by 479 participants (male = 260, female = 215; M-age = 43.02, SD = 10.38). In line with the hypotheses, results show that job insecurity predicts emotional exhaustion directly and via the mediation of organizational dehumanization. Employee resilience also moderated the association between organizational dehumanization and emotional exhaustion. However, employee resilience did not moderate the relationship between job insecurity and emotional exhaustion. Limitations and implications are discussed.