AUTHOR=Saleem Farida , Malik Muhammad Imran , Qureshi Saiqa Saddiqa 

TITLE=Work Stress Hampering Employee Performance During COVID-19: Is Safety Culture Needed?

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.655839

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.655839

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=During uncertain situations such as COVID-19 partial lockdown, maintaining satisfactory levels of employees performance is an important area of concern for many organizations. The current study examines the relationship of work stress due to COVID-19 and employee performance. Using social exchange theory, safety culture is presented as a moderator for stress and performance relationships. A sample of 213 bank employees was collected using a convenient sampling method. Data were analyzed using stepwise linear regression and PROCESS Macro by Hayes (2013). Results revealed that stress due to COVID-19 has negative impact on task and contextual performance and positive impact on adaptive performance. Similarly, the prevalence of safety culture significantly moderates the stress and performance relationships.