Tenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

In contemporary businesses, efficiency-focused management practices are pervasive for superior organization performance and employees’ rapid career advancement which potentially undermines their physical health and psychological well being. This is not an exception for banking professionals in Pakistan who are viewed as the “Ideal Worker” with 24/7 job thus pursuing one of most demanding and stressful careers. These harms of Negative externalities (NE) of HRM, (work intensification) produce more costs to organization than they save to be efficient. Although a plethora of research has been conducted on the effectiveness of HRM, relatively few research endeavors are aimed at empirically examining the harm of negative externality of unsustainable impact of work intensification on banking professionals in Pakistan. Thus, drawing from Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) perspective, we proposed and empirically test moderated (buffering) influence of Health-supporting HR practices on harmful consequences (emotional exhaustion and psychosomatic disorder) produced by work intensification. Interesting research insights of our study contribute to recent health and safety supportive sustainable HRM domain in order to bring employees’ physical and psychological well-being back to HRM agenda to achieve not only business goals but also reduce the harms of negative externalities of unsustainable management practices