Effects of job insecurity on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention
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2010
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Suppayah, Maheswaran
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Abstract
Organizational change initiatives such as downsizing, represents some of the most
profound (Gandolfi, 2008) and problematic issues facing modern-day corporations, nonprofit
organizations, governmental agencies, and global workforces (Carbery & Garavan,
2005). Corporate restructuring, or simply `restructuring', is a relatively broad concept.
Black and Edwards (2000), for instance, define restructuring as a major change in the
composition of a firm's assets combined with a major change in its organizational
direction and strategy. As a result of that, the perceived job insecurity is receiving
increasing recognition as an important determinant of employee work behavior and
attitudes. Empirical studies have shown that job insecurity are associated to many adverse
reactions of the employees, in terms of reduced job satisfaction (Locke, 1976) and
organizational commitment (Meyer & Allen, 1991).Turnover intention has been
increasing when there is increase in the sense of insecurity at a job (Tett & Meyer, 1993).
In this study, job insecurity has adapted as the fundamental model and extended by
introduction other variables. Data was collected with a self-administered questionnaire
from 110 respondents. Multiple regression analyses were performed to test the
hypotheses posited in this study. The findings indicated that job insecurity has concurred
with previous findings when it comes to job satisfaction and organization commitment
but it has relatively flourished a new ideology when it came to turnover intentions. The
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findings also found that there is no significance between the total job dimension of job
insecurity towards any of the dimensions in job satisfaction, organization commitment or
turnover intention. Understanding the difference in result which due to the change in the
trend of thinking from the sampled population, it provides better insights to what has
transpired as results to organizations who are planning to practice downsizing during the
recession.
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Business Administration , Job Insecurity , Job Satisfaction