Download or read book Testing a Causal Model of Job Insecurity and Job Satisfaction written by Patrick Brennan O U+2019 Neill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of widespread downsizing and restructuring, job insecurity has emerged as a prolific stressor in modern working life. While previous research has linked job insecurity to diminished job satisfaction, scholars rarely examine the role of personality dispositions and have yet to establish the strength and direction of causation. To address these gaps, the present research develops and tests a causal model describing the influence of dispositional positive and negative affect (PA and NA) on the relationship between job insecurity and job satisfaction. To test this model, the author analyzes a three-wave longitudinal panel data set (n = 258) collected at one-year intervals using structural equations modelling (SEM). Prior to this investigation, two ancillary studies established a robust measurement model. The first study developed and validated a new job insecurity measure, randomly splitting the Time 1 data set (n = 1185) into two equal sub-samples, with one used for exploratory factor analysis (n = 502) and the other split into two subsamples of n = 251 each for confirmatory factor analysis with tests of measurement invariance. Results strongly supported a measurement model consisting of four correlated but distinct job insecurity dimensions: job loss, job changes, marginalization, and organizational survival.
Download or read book A Transactional Model of Job Insecurity Personality and Coping written by Alaina Courtney Keim and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current study examines the role personality plays in influencing how people cope with job insecurity by utilizing the theory of psychological contracts. Specifically, this study examines the extent to which personality moderates the relation between job insecurity and coping strategies. Also, the relation between job insecurity and job attitudes (i.e., job satisfaction and job security satisfaction) are addressed. Lastly, the possibility that the relation between job insecurity and important organizational outcomes (i.e., organizational citizenship behavior (OCBs) and counterproductive work behavior) are moderated by different coping strategies is considered. Participants included undergraduate students who were employed at least part-time. Results indicate role conflict and role ambiguity predict job insecurity, job insecurity predicts job satisfaction and job security satisfaction, emotional stability moderates the relation between job insecurity and withdrawal coping, and coworker support moderates the relation between job insecurity and OCBs. Discussed are theoretical implications, limitations, including the use of cross-sectional data to test a causal model, and directions for future research.
Download or read book Job Insecurity written by Jean Hartley and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1991-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which is concerned with the impact of job insecurity on individuals, organizations and industrial relations, is a major contribution to an increasingly important topic in an era of continued organizational restructuring and change. The authors explore the personal experiences of job insecurity for individual employees and the variety of ways in which people cope with their feelings of uncertainty and ambiguity. They examine collective behaviour through the impact of job insecurity on union activities and union-management relations. They also explore the relationship between organizational effectiveness and job insecurity, and outline a number of strategies that organizations can adopt to address its potentially d
Download or read book The Determinants of Employee Job Satisfaction written by Augustine Osakhuomwan Agho and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Causal Model of Job Satisfaction written by Dan Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Job Insecurity written by Bert Klandermans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999-06-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Perceived Job Insecurity and Quality of Life Testing the Effect of Stress Proliferation from Work to Family Life written by Anne E. Fehrenbacher and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The organization of work in the United States has changed dramatically over the last four decades as a result of globalization, industrial shifts, and technological innovation (Burgard et al., 2009; Seigrist & Marmot, 2005; Sverke & Hellgren, 2002). Long-term, stable employment relationships have increasingly been replaced with work arrangements characterized by shorter job tenure and fewer worker protections, leading to an increase in perceived job insecurity (Standing, 2011). Perceived job insecurity is defined as an anticipatory stressor related to the threat of losing a job, or important features of a job, and a sense of powerlessness to overcome this threat (Greenhalgh & Rosenblatt, 2010; De Witte, 2005). The Employment Conditions Knowledge Network of the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health (Benach et al., 2007) suggests that the effects of perceived job insecurity on health may be even more harmful than job loss itself. Although evidence for a causal relationship between perceived job insecurity and health is growing, little is known about mechanisms and group differences in this relationship. This dissertation investigates the relationship between perceived job insecurity and quality of life. Quality of life is defined in this study as a general state of health, well-being, and satisfaction across multiple dimensions of life (Drotar, 2014; Kobau et al., 2010; Bowling, 1991). Although the WHO defines health very broadly as a "complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being," health is usually assessed in studies of perceived job insecurity in very narrow terms based on the presence or absence of disease (CDC, 2011). In contrast to this deficit perspective on health, quality of life is an overall state of wellness. This dissertation makes an important contribution to the literature on perceived job insecurity and quality of life by achieving three aims: 1) identifying determinants of perceived job insecurity among adults in the United States; 2) testing causal pathways linking perceived job insecurity and perceived inequality at work to quality of life; and 3) estimating group differences in the effect of perceived job insecurity and perceived inequality at work on quality of life based on social status, social resources, and demographic characteristics. Data for this research were drawn from a U.S. sample of non-institutionalized, English-speaking adults in the 1995-1996 and 2004-2006 waves of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS). Multivariate generalized ordinal structural equation modeling was used to test hypotheses for the first aim (N=5,424). Multivariate linear structural equation modeling with full information maximum likelihood estimation was used to test hypotheses for the second and third aims (N=5,113). This study was informed by Pearlin and colleagues' (1981) stress process model, which posits that unequal exposure to stressors and access to resources for coping with stressors contributes to health disparities. Key findings from this study add to existing knowledge on job stressors and health. First, for determinants, perceived job insecurity is influenced by objective job insecurity over and above the effects of psychosocial job stressors and demographic characteristics. Effort-reward imbalance also significantly increases perceived job insecurity, but job strain does not. High effort may improve security, but not in the absence of control. People of color report significantly higher perceived job insecurity than non-Hispanic white people, but there is no association between gender and perceived job insecurity, all other factors held constant. Perceived inequality at work is a strong determinant of perceived job insecurity. Second, for consequences, perceived job insecurity is associated with quality of life net of controls for demographic and health characteristics, but not when controlling for other job stressors. Perceived inequality at work confounds the relationship between perceived job insecurity and quality of life. Negative work to family spillover of stress and social support outside of work from family, friends, and spouse/partner significantly mediate the relationship between perceived inequality at work and quality of life. Third, for conditioning factors, the effect of perceived inequality at work on quality of life is conditional on household income, social support at work, age, and wave of interview. No significant group differences were found by education, gender, or race. The findings demonstrate that perceived job insecurity is associated with other psychosocial stressors from established job stress models but that inequality may be even more threatening to health and well-being than insecurity. Stress proliferation from work to family life partially explains the relationship between perceived inequality at work and quality of life. Programs to enhance social support at work and home may help to contain the negative health effects of inequality and insecurity on quality of life.
Download or read book Job Demands in a Changing World of Work written by Christian Korunka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the new ways of working and their impact on employees’ well-being and performance. It concentrates on job demands and flexible work emanating from current economic and organizational change, and assesses impact on workers’ health and performance. The development of issues such as globalization, rapid technological advances, new management practices, organizational changes and new job skills are addressed. This book gives an overview and discusses the potential negative and positive effects of such new job demands and new forms of work.
Download or read book Job Satisfaction and Social Comparison written by Joshua Douglas Cotton and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confirmatory Analytic Tests of Three Causal Models Relating Job Perceptions to Job Satisfaction written by L. R. James and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three alternative models of causal relations between job perceptions and job satisfaction were tested using confirmatory analytic techniques. The three causal models are: (a) a postcognitive-nonrecursive model in which job satisfaction occurs after job perceptions in the causal order, and job perceptions and job satisfaction are reciprocally related; (b) a precognitive-recursive model in which job perception occur after job satisfaction in the causal order and are effects but not causes of job satisfaction; and (c) a precognitive-nonrecursive model in which job satisfaction occurs prior to job perceptions, and job satisfaction and job perceptions are reciprocally related. Results of confirmatory analyses indicated disconfirmation of all but the postcognitive-nonrecursive model. (Author).
Download or read book The Psychology of Work written by Jeanne M. Brett and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is derived from a conference held in honor of Charles Hulin's contribution to the psychology of work. His research has carefully developed and tested theory related to job satisfaction, withdrawal from work, and sexual harassment. Edited by Hulin's students, The Psychology of Work discusses research in job satisfaction. This research shows that job satisfaction plays an essential role in theories of organizational behavior. Formal models are used, such as item response theory, structural equation modeling, and computational models. Three general and consistent themes in Hulin's research are represented in this book's chapters. The first theme is a focus on broad, general constructs, such as job satisfaction. The virtue of this approach is that a wide range of behavior can be explained by a small number of variables. The second theme involves the examination of the antecedents and consequences of job satisfaction. This theme is increasingly important because it ties research on job attitudes and job behaviors where links are consistently found to social attitudes and behaviors where links are rarely found. The third theme consists of Hulin's interest in the use of formal models to characterize and understand behavior. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in industrial/organizational psychology, human resources, organizational behavior, and management.
Download or read book How Colleges Work written by Robert Birnbaum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-09-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the best theoretical and applied analyses of universityacademic organization and leadership in print. This book issignificant because it is not only thoughtfully developed and basedon careful reading of the extensive literature on leadership andgovernance, but it is also deliberately intended to enable theauthor to bridge the gap between theories of organization, on onehand, and practical application, on the other." --Journal of Higher Education
Download or read book An Empirical Study of the Social Correlates of Job Satisfaction Among Plant Science Graduates of a Midwestern University written by Kebba Darboe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this book is to empirically examine the social correlates of job satisfaction among plant science graduates who work in agriculture. Victor H. Vroom's (1964) expectancy theory guides the study.
Download or read book Personnel Literature written by United States. Office of Personnel Management. Library and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizational Cynicism written by Rebecca Abraham and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham (business administration, Nova Southeastern U.) identifies cynicism as one of the principal causes of lass of organizational productivity and investigates the causes and consequences of cynicism within a theoretical construct that sees the phenomena as part of a process rather than an isolat
Download or read book Organization written by John P. Kotter and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Causal Model of the Determinants of Job Satisfaction in the Public Sector written by Supachai Yavaprabhas and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
