Title: COVID-19 stress and employee performance: the mediating effect of counterproductive behaviour

Authors: Precious Doe; Irene Akpene Amenuvor

Addresses: Optimum Strategies, Lakeside Estates, Accra, Ghana ' Optimum Strategies, Lakeside Estates, Accra, Ghana

Abstract: The study assessed the nexus between COVID-19 stress and employee performance with counterproductive work behaviour as a mediating factor. The study was a cross-sectional quantitative research design with data collected from 335 employees using a convenient sampling frame. Data was analysed using SPSS (v.25) and PLS-SEM (v.4.0). The result of the study revealed that COVID-19 induced stress has a positive and significant effect on employee adaptive performance, contextual performance, and task performance. Similarly, counterproductive work behaviour mediates the direct relationship between COVID-19 induced stress and employee work performance. The study further discussed the practical and theoretical implications of the findings and the implications for future studies.

Keywords: COVID-19; employee work performance; stress; counterproductive work performance.

DOI: 10.1504/EMJM.2024.135986

EuroMed Journal of Management, 2024 Vol.6 No.1, pp.1 - 22

Received: 15 Jun 2023
Accepted: 17 Jul 2023
Published online: 11 Jan 2024 *

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