Terrorist threat and employees' perceived ability to cope with organizational change |
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| Authors: | Andreas Kastenmüller Nilüfer Aydin Dieter Frey Eva Traut‐Mattausch Claudia Peus Peter Fischer |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Psychology, University of Regensburg;2. Psychology, University of Munich (LMU);3. Psychology, University of Salzburg;4. TUM School of Management, Technische Universit?t München |
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| Abstract: | This study investigated the impact of the perceived threat of terrorism on employees' ability to cope with organizational change as well as potentially underlying psychological mechanisms related to work satisfaction and initiative. Three days after the 2006 thwarted terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom, participants were reminded of terrorist threat (by pictures of terrorist attacks) reported lower levels in their ability to cope with organizational change, as well as lower levels of work satisfaction, than did participants who were not reminded of terrorist threat. Three months later, the same terror salience manipulation had no differential effect on these variables. Mediation analyses revealed that work satisfaction mediated the impact of terror salience on employees' ability to cope with organizational change. |
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