The impact of benevolent human resource management attributions on employees’ general work stress, with the mediating influence of gratitude

Workplace stress can cause serious physical and mental illness result in billions of dollars lost productivity every year. Researchers have called for the development frameworks through which Human Resource Management (HRM) practices reduce employee stress. Building on HRM attribution theory, this study builds a framework based benevolent attributions. Benevolent attributions are beliefs that their management has enacted to support performance ( attributions) improve well-being attributions). This examined if both engender gratitude, turn may general job levels. Respondents were chosen from telecom sector Pakistan as they operate high inducing environment. The theoretically causal associations by employing structural equation modeling (SEM) method. results confirmed hypotheses also showed employees’ with mediating influence gratitude. theoretical practical implications these findings discussed well.