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Job Insecurity as a Research Subject in Psychology: Theories, Definitions, Findings

Summary/Abstract: The study represents a review of psychological research of job insecurity and deals with scientific analysis of theoretical questions in the area, used methodologies and main findings. The difference between subjective job insecurity, a perceptional phenomenon which is determined by the two broad dimensions – affective and cognitive, and objective insecurity, an occurrence which does not depend on the perception of an individual, is defined. The general and empirically proved hypothesis about the negative impact of job insecurity on the individual work motivation and well- -being represents a framework of the 543 study. We substantiate it by positioning the concept of job insecurity in the context of traditional and modern theories of work motivation, in particular Cognitive Evaluation Theory. We differentiate the global or quantitative job insecurity – perceived probability and anxiety related to the threatening job loss, from the qualitative – when the same experience is related to the threatening loss of valuable job characteristics. We understand psychological research of job insecurity as an answer to the actual changes of the working life context that are characterized by a high rate of unemployment, increased labour mobility, privatization and restructuring of work organizations. On the individual level, these changes are reflected in the decreasing of almost all aspects of security that are traditionally related to employment. All these changes represent a challenge for organizational psychologists who attempt to redefine the career concept and have a task to define strategies of human resource management in the context of intensive job insecurity.

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