Supervisor bottom-line mentality and employee workplace well-being: a multiple mediation model

Abstract

Purpose

This study is intended to investigate the relationship between supervisor bottom-line mentality (BLM) and employee workplace well-being. In addition, this study discusses the mediating roles of perception of organizational politics and job anxiety in this relationship.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were gathered from a two-wave survey of 301 full-time employees in southern China. The PROCESS macro in SPSS was applied to test the hypotheses.

Findings

Results showed that supervisor BLM was negatively related to employee workplace well-being. Moreover, perceptions of organizational politics and job anxiety played multiple mediating roles in the relationship between supervisor BLM and employee workplace well-being.

Originality/value

Drawing on the conservation of resource (COR) theory and cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS) theory, this study proposes a multiple mediation model to advance our understanding of how supervisor BLM affects employee workplace well-being.

Citation

Guo, L., Du, J. and Zhang, J. (2024), "Supervisor bottom-line mentality and employee workplace well-being: a multiple mediation model", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 218-233. https://doi.org/10.1108/BJM-11-2023-0467