Twin Threats in Digital Workplace: Technostress and Work Intensification in a Dual-Path Moderated Mediation Model of Employee Health
Muhammad Jawwad Nasir Malik, Mubashar Ali, Asad Malik, Shamir Malik, Nicola Magnavita, Venerando Rapisarda · 2025
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Muhammad Jawwad Nasir Malik and five co-authors wrote this 2025 study on two drains of the digital workplace and how each harms employee health. Technostress, the strain of the tools themselves, and work intensification, the squeeze of ever more work, were modeled as twin threats in Pakistan's manufacturing sector. The team surveyed mid- and senior-level employees, collecting 252 usable responses.
Two pathways carried the damage. Technostress hurt health through IT strain, unless employees were satisfied with their tools, which blunted the chain. Intensification hurt through emotional exhaustion, unless workers felt organizational support, which weakened that chain's final link. The authors ground the model in resource conservation theory: demands deplete people, and buffers matter at specific points. Their advice to managers is targeted rather than generic: fix tool satisfaction and visible support, the two shock absorbers the data actually indicted.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Muhammad Jawwad Nasir Malik, Mubashar Ali, Asad Malik, Shamir Malik, Nicola Magnavita, Venerando Rapisarda |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 77 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |