Survey reveals job insecurity can boost challenge appraisal but hinder overall resilience in teams, highlighting the influence of team task characteristics.
While previous research has examined the role of team resources on team resilience from a resource-based perspective, the underlying mechanisms of team resilience emergence from a process perspective remain insufficiently discussed. Grounded in the context of VUCA era and team stress appraisal theory, we explore the mechanism through which team job insecurity influences team resilience and the contextual effects of team task characteristics. Through a three-wave questionnaire conducted with 464 employees from 96 teams, we found that team job insecurity was positively related to team challenge appraisal, which in turn positively related to team resilience. Meanwhile, team job insecurity was positively related to team hindrance appraisal, which in turn negatively related to team resilience. Furthermore, ream task interdependence reinforced the positive effect of team job insecurity on team resilience via challenge appraisal while weakened the negative effect of team job insecurity on team resilience via hindrance appraisal. Both theoretical and practical contributions were discussed.
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