@article {387596,
	title = {Manager Characteristics and Employee Job Insecurity around a Merger Announcement: The Role of Status and Crossover},
	journal = {The Sociological Quarterly},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {
	Most existing research theorizes individual factors as predictors of perceived job insecurity. Incorporating contextual and organizational factors at an information technology organization where a merger was announced during data collection, we draw on status expectations and crossover theories to investigate whether managers{\textquoteright} characteristics and insecurity shape their employees{\textquoteright} job insecurity. We find having an Asian as opposed to a White manager is associated with lower job insecurity, whereas managers{\textquoteright} own insecurity positively predicts employees{\textquoteright} insecurity. Also contingent on the organizational climate, managers{\textquoteright} own tenure buffers, and managers{\textquoteright} perceived job insecurity magnifies insecurity of employees interviewed after a merger announcement, further specifying status expectations theory by considering context.

},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tsq.12092/full},
	author = {Lam, Jack and Fox, Kimberly and Fan, Wen and Moen, Phyllis and Kelly, Erin L and Hammer, Leslie B and Kossek, Ellen E}
}
