Is Too Much Work Intensification Harmful? Impact on Psychological Health and Work Engagement of Employees

Abstract

The article empirically investigates the relationship between work intensification (WI) and employee well-being by considering high-performance work systems (HPWS) and perceived organisational support (POS) as mediators. An integrated model is designed to discover the interactions between WIs, indicators of employee well-being (psychological health and work engagement), POS and HPWS. Our sample consists of 411 executives working in Indian IT organisations. Data analyses were performed by structural equation modelling. The research found that WI adversely impacts employee well-being. The findings revealed that POS and HPWS mediate the linkage between WI and employee well-being. The research findings make significant contributions by demonstrating how WI affects employee well-being and by assisting organisations in implementing sustainable HRM practices and constructing a congenial atmosphere. Finally, we sum up the impact of WI on workers, their families and society, and present a broad variety of implications for researchers and practitioners to comprehend sustainable HRM and its role in enhancing employee well-being.