# The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Team Job Insecurity on Team Resilience

## TL;DR

This study explores how job insecurity in teams can both help and hurt team resilience, depending on how the team perceives the situation.

## Contribution

The paper introduces a process-based model showing how job insecurity affects team resilience through challenge and hindrance appraisals.

## Key findings

- Team job insecurity increases both challenge and hindrance appraisals.
- Challenge appraisal positively boosts team resilience, while hindrance appraisal reduces it.
- Task interdependence strengthens the positive effect of challenge appraisal and weakens the negative effect of hindrance appraisal.

## Abstract

While previous research has examined the role of team resources on team resilience from a resource-based perspective, the underlying mechanisms of team resilience emergence from a process perspective remain insufficiently discussed. Drawing on team stress appraisal theory, we explore the mechanism through which team job insecurity influences team resilience and the contextual effects of team task characteristics. Through a three-wave questionnaire conducted with 464 employees from 96 teams, we found that team job insecurity was positively related to team challenge appraisal, which in turn was positively related to team resilience. Meanwhile, team job insecurity was positively related to team hindrance appraisal, which in turn was negatively related to team resilience. Furthermore, ream task interdependence reinforced the positive effect of team job insecurity on team resilience via challenge appraisal, while weakening the negative effect of team job insecurity on team resilience via hindrance appraisal. Both theoretical and practical contributions were discussed.