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Employment contract, job insecurity and employees’ affective well-being: The role of self- and collective efficacy
Beatriz SoraAmparo CaballerJosé M. PeiróThomas Högesubject
Self-efficacyOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementOperationalizationConceptualizationStrategy and Managementmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciences050109 social psychologyModerationGeneral Business Management and AccountingEmployment contractCollective efficacyManagement of Technology and InnovationPerception0502 economics and businessWell-being0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesPsychologySocial psychology050203 business & managementmedia_commondescription
A large amount of research has focused on job insecurity, but without obtaining consistent results. Some authors have pointed that this variability might be due to the operationalization of job insecurity. Different types of job insecurity can provoke different employee reactions. The aim of this study is to analyse the effect of job insecurity, understood as temporary employment (objective job insecurity) and personal perception (subjective job insecurity), on affective well-being. In addition, the moderator roles of job self-efficacy and collective efficacy are examined in the relationship between job insecurity and employees’ affective well-being. This study was carried out with 1435 employees from 138 Spanish and Austrian organizations. The results showed a different effect of job insecurity depending on its conceptualization. Only subjective job insecurity was negatively related to affective well-being. Moreover, both self- and collective efficacy moderated the subjective job insecurity–outcomes relation, ameliorating employees’ well-being levels when they perceived job insecurity.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-31 | Economic and Industrial Democracy |