Job Insecurity

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The world is getting more and more uncertain. Organizations face challenging and dynamic environments and have responded by restructuring companies and laying off employees.

This has meant increasing amounts of insecurity around their jobs as they wonder whether and how long their jobs will last and/or whether those jobs will be changed so much as to be nearly unrecognizable. Job insecurity has been linked to stress and a variety of health complaints about individuals and negative impacts for the organization, including increased levels of turnover, and decreased levels of performance.

I've been involved in research on job insecurity since 1989 and believe that we have some pretty interesting findings of how people respond to it.

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