Job Insecurity: Correlates, Moderators and Measurement

Borg, Ingwer; Elizur, Dov

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“…For example, job insecurity implies uncontrollability and feelings of powerlessness, which known to be related to poor well-being (De Witte 1999). As Borg and Elizur (1992) noted, a causal relationship exists, with job insecurity causing various phenomenon, such as lower trust in management, and not vice versa. While, Lee et al (2004) described that during 4 years they found coronary heart disease deaths cases of myocardial infarction (MI) and 41 coronary heart disease (CHD) deaths).…”

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“…They further maintained that job insecurity based on the individual's perceptions and interpretations of the immediate work environment. This implies that subjectively experienced threats derived from objective threats by means of the individual's perceptual and cognitive processes (Borg & Elizur, 1992;Tivendell & Bourbonnais, 2000).…”

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Religious Coping, Job Insecurity and Job Stress among Javanese Academic Staff: a Moderated Regression Analysis

Safaria¹,

Othman²,

Nubli³

2010

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Work is a demand for an adult, because through working, person can actualize their skill and achieve their aspiration. Beside that through working, person can meets their basic needs of life. Yet, working also has a hidden threat that can be suddenly attack and eradicate the well being of person. Those hidden threat is called as a strain and stress.The present study purposes to examine relationship between job insecurity, and the role of religious coping as moderator variables with job stress among Javanese academic staff. Contextual factor should be considered to achieve more in depth comprehension about dynamic relationship of job stress, especially this study take Javanese culture account for understanding of contextualizing theory of job stress. Moderated multiple regression was conducted to examine this issue.The result of study confirmed that there is a significant relationship between job insecurity with job stress, and religious coping moderate the relationship between job insecurity with job stress. The mechanism of relationship among exogenous and endogenous variables was discussed in a paper below.

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Religious Coping, Job Insecurity and Job Stress among Javanese Academic Staff: a Moderated Regression Analysis

Safaria¹,

Othman²,

Nubli³

2010

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“…Thus far, it is well established that job insecurity affects both the individual and the organization (Borg & Elizur, 1992;Kuhnert & Palmer, 1991;Rosenblatt, Talmud, & Ruvio, 1999;Roskies & Louis-Guerin, 1990). Two meta-analyses on job insecurity found relations between job insecurity and the aspects of decreased job satisfaction, organizational commitment, trust, performance, job involvement, mental and physical health, and increased turnover intention (Cheng & Chan, 2008;Sverke et al, 2002).…”

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Job Insecurity and Its Consequences: Investigating Moderators, Mediators and Gender

Richter¹

2011

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This thesis has aimed at increasing our understanding of the relations between job insecurity and its consequences by addressing several specific research aims. The first research aim focused on increasing the range of job insecurity consequences by studying the relation between job insecurity and work-family conflict over time in order to investigate the directionality of their association, which was addressed in Study 3. It was found that job insecurity affected work-family conflict one year later, but only among men.The second research aim addressed mechanisms involved in the job insecurity-outcome relations. Factors that might make employees more vulnerable to, or buffer against the negative effects of job insecurity were studied. Coping with job insecurity was investigated as potential moderating factors in Study 1. The results showed that problem-focused coping did not function as a buffer, nor did devaluation coping and avoidance coping, the two types of emotion-focused coping studied. Avoidance coping was actually a vulnerability factor for men, and related to more negative reactions to job insecurity in terms of job satisfaction and mental health complaints. Two forms of job dependence were also investigated in Study 2 as potential moderating factors of the relations between job insecurity and its outcomes. It was found that the relative contribution to the household income functioned as a vulnerability factor for men. Higher levels of work centrality combined with either quantitative or qualitative job insecurity were related to higher levels of job satisfaction among women. As a final mechanism, workload was investigated as a mediating variable of the relation between job insecurity and its outcomes in Study 3. The results showed that workload linked job insecurity to work-family conflict one year later, but only for men.The third research aim of this thesis addressed gender, and differences between men and women were found in all three studies, where men overall seemed to suffer more from job insecurity. All in all, these results confirm previous results regarding the negative impact of job insecurity, but also provide information regarding important areas for future research to study, such as the further investigation of mechanisms as well as the role of gender.

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“…Generally, this definition has been applied in the context of organisational crisis or change, in which job insecurity is considered as a first phase of the process of job loss (Ferrie, 1997;Joelson & Wahlquist, 1987). Researchers who adopt a multidimensional definition of job insecurity argue that job insecurity refers not only to the degree of uncertainty, but also to the continuity of certain dimensions, such as opportunities for promotion (Ashford, Lee & Bobko, 1989;Borg & Elizur, 1992;Rosenblatt & Ruvio, 1996). Hellgren, Sverke and Isaksson (1999) indicate that the terms quantitative and qualitative job insecurity are used to distinguish between these two dimensions of job insecurity.…”

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Job insecurity, burnout and work engagement: The impact of positive and negative affectivity

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The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between job insecurity, affectivity, burnout and work engagement of employees (N = 297) in a government organisation. A cross-sectional survey design was used. The Job Insecurity Questionnaire, Affectometer 2, Oldenburg Burnout Inventory, and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale were used as measuring instruments. Job insecurity as well as negative and positive affectivity had main effects on burnout and work engagement. Negative affectivity also interacted with job insecurity to influence the burnout and work engagement of employees. No interaction effects were found between positive affectivity and job insecurity. <b>Opsomming</b> Die doelstelling van hierdie studie was om die verband tussen werksonsekerheid, affektiwiteit, uitbranding en werksbegeestering van werknemers (N = 297) in ’n staatsorganisasie te ondersoek. Daar is gebruik gemaak van ’n dwarsdeursnee-opname-ontwerp. Die Werksonsekerheidsvraelys, Affectometer 2, die Oldenburg-Uitbrandingsvraelys en die Utrecht-Werksbegeesteringskaal is as meetinstrumente gebruik. Die resultate het daarop gedui dat werksonsekerheid, sowel as negatiewe en positiewe affektiwiteit hoofeffekte op uitbranding en werksbegeestering gehad het. Uitbranding en begeestering is ook deur die interaksie tussen negatiewe affektiwiteit en werksonsekerheid beïnvloed. Geen interaksie-effekte is tussen positiewe affektiwiteit en werksonsekerheid gevind nie

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Job Insecurity: Correlates, Moderators and Measurement

Cited by 201 publications

References 7 publications

Religious Coping, Job Insecurity and Job Stress among Javanese Academic Staff: a Moderated Regression Analysis

Religious Coping, Job Insecurity and Job Stress among Javanese Academic Staff: a Moderated Regression Analysis

Job Insecurity and Its Consequences: Investigating Moderators, Mediators and Gender

Job insecurity, burnout and work engagement: The impact of positive and negative affectivity

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