Job security matters: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between job security and work attitudes
verifiedrich profile · Journal of Management & Organization · 2019
Hur, Hyunkang
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job insecurity → organizational commitment
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Abstract This article synthesizes public and private sector accumulated research regarding the relationship between job security and employee work attitudes (i.e., job satisfaction and organizational commitment). The present meta-analysis of 37 studies (including 45 independent samples) shows that the medium-sized associations between job security and each work attitude variables (i.e., job satisfaction and organizational commitment) were found, with true score correlations (ρ) of .327 for job satisfaction, and .253 for organizational commitment. These results highlight the significance of job security at the workplace, in shaping and enhancing attitudes of employee and job security is worth retaining in some form in the public sector, contrary to the logic of at-will employment. This meta-analysis findings also call attention to several important considerations for developing effective public job security policy.
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supports “In research on job quality job insecurity is named as one crucial determinant with job insecurity showing a negative association with job satisfaction and a positive with occupational stress (Ganster & Rosen, 2013; Hur, 2019; Sverke et al., 2002).”
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