Modeling of moonlighting intention and its motives with moderation of Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Moonlighting means where workers hold additional job with primary employment at a single time to fulfill their pecuniary and non-pecuniary objectives. Working with dual or multiple jobs not only negatively influence organizations’ performance, workers’ health and work life balance but may also be turn in employee turnover. In order to prevent negative effects of moonlighting, organizations and policymakers need to recognize those factors that generate behavioural intentions for moonlighting adoption among workers. The present study has investigated those factors by using the data collected from 530 non-government workers of Haryana state and found that workers intend to join moonlighting to fulfill their pecuniary and non-pecuniary objectives. The findings indicate that moonlighting intentions are positively increase among workers when they get financial benefits, opportunities of career growth and new experiences & skills, personal development, efficient time utilization, job security etc. by the use of moonlighting employment. Moreover, findings indicate that terrible impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on people’s financial capabilities & psychological health as well as on global economic and job market conditions are also pressurizing workers for moonlighting adoption. Finally, present study has suggested the importance of non-pecuniary factors along with pecuniary factors to organizations at the time of designing effective human resource policies and reducing the likelihood of moonlighting adoption among workers.