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| Research on Impact of Homesickness on Job Performance in Chinese Context Based on Role of Instant Messaging and Emotional Exhaustion |
| ZHAO Fuqiang，ZHANG Qiuhong，CHEN Yun，HU Wei，CHEN Kaijia |
| Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China |
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Abstract With the development of the economic globalization and urbanization, the foreign labor force becomes larger and larger. The interaction of the difficulty to the new environment and the missing of the familiar environment forms into their heavy homesickness, which is being changed into the cause of their poor performance in the western context. However, the purpose of their leaving home is to return home with clothes and brocade in the Chinese context, whether homesickness is the driving force of performance improvement or the burden of its decline has not been found in the current empirical research. Therefore, based on the conservation of resource theory, this paper aims to illustrate the mechanism and boundary condition of the homesickness influencing the individual performance through the mediation of instant messaging and the moderation of emotional exhaustion during the mobile interconnection times. According to the positive analysis, this paper suggests the following conclusions. Firstly, the homesickness is positively related to job performance. Secondly, the instant messaging mediates the impact of the homesickness on job performance. Thirdly, the emotional exhaustion moderates the direct effect of the homesickness on instant messaging. Finally, the emotional exhaustion moderates the indirect effect of the homesickness on job performance through the mediation of the instant messaging.
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Received: 06 April 2019
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