Study on the role and internal mechanism of corporate leisure welfare in alleviating employee burnout

Abstract

Corporate leisure welfare (CLW) has become a widely adopted human resource management practice within companies. However, the relationship between CLW and employee burnout (EB) still lacks the necessary theoretical exploration and empirical evidence. Following the leisure on work (L-O-W) paradigm of leisure and work research, this study constructs a theoretical model based on effort-recovery theory and conservation of resources (COR) theory and then uses the propensity matching method (PSM), path analysis, bootstrap mediation and moderating effect tests to analyze the data. The results of the study indicate a significant mitigating effect of CLW provided by companies on EB. The benefits of leisure play an obvious mediating role in the relationship between CLW and EB. At the same time, there is a significant negative moderating effect of employee satisfaction with CLW on the process of mitigating EB.

Keywords:

• Corporate leisure welfare
• employee burnout
• benefits of leisure
• leisure welfare satisfaction

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the reviewers and editors for providing wonderful suggestions on this paper. We also thank Prof. Wen Tong and his team for their comments.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the (National Natural Science Foundation of China) under Grant [No.71904164] and the (Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province) under Grant [No.2019jj50621].