Working on an Empty Stomach: How Food Insecurity Impacts Job Performance Through Rumination
研究发现食物不安全会引发员工反刍，从而降低任务绩效、增加职场偏差行为，但自我控制能力和主管支持能缓解这种负面影响。
ABSTRACT Food insecurity is a public health issue for much of the world's population, yet management scholars have not addressed how this phenomenon might affect employees while on the job. In the current paper, we introduce the topic into the management literature by exploring how this prevalent experience affects employee outcomes at work. We use a self‐control and selective attention lens to propose that food insecurity evokes rumination, which in turn reduces task performance and organizational citizenship behavior toward the organization (OCB‐O) and heightens workplace deviance. Additionally, we examine self‐control capacity, supervisor support, and workplace food benefits as potential moderators of the indirect effect of food insecurity on employee work outcomes. We utilize a sample of customer service employees (Study 1) and a multi‐source, multi‐wave field sample (Study 2) to test our hypotheses (along with two online replication studies). We find robust support that food insecurity decreases task performance (but not OCB‐O) and increases workplace deviance through increased rumination. However, self‐control capacity and supervisor support weaken this relationship. Conversely, results show partial support for the influence of workplace food benefits amplifying instead of mitigating the negative work impacts of food insecurity. Overall, our work highlights and examines the additional negative impacts food insecure employees experience in organizations.