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The effect of job resourcefulness on role stress, emotional exhaustion and overall performance: A study of frontline bank employees

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This article develops and tests a conceptual model that examines the effects of co-worker support and job resourcefulness on role stress, emotional exhaustion and job performance. The data obtained from frontline bank employees with a time lag of two weeks in Northern Cyprus were used to test these relationships. The results of structural equation modelling suggest that the partially mediated model seems to have a better fit than the fully mediated model. The results further suggest that job resourcefulness partially mediates the effect of co-worker support on role ambiguity and emotional exhaustion. However, there is no empirical support for job resourcefulness as a mediator of the impact of co-worker support on role conflict and job performance. The implications of the results are discussed and their future research directions are offered.

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Karatepe, O., Aga, M. The effect of job resourcefulness on role stress, emotional exhaustion and overall performance: A study of frontline bank employees. J Financ Serv Mark 18, 91–105 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/fsm.2013.6

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