McDonaldization and Job Insecurity

Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and subsequent transitions to unemployment and inactivity. Sec...

Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility

Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling – the extent to which work-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment – is a transitory phenomenon. The results suggest that while overskilled workers are much more likely to want to quit their current job, they are also relatively un...

Job Insecurity and Occupational Group 821

Religiousness in times of job insecurity : job demand or resource ?

Purpose – Departing from the job demands resources model, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether religion, defined as strength of religious faith, can be viewed as resource or as demand. More specifically, the authors addressed the question as to how job insecurity and religion interact in predicting burnout and change-oriented behavior. Design/methodology/approach – The authors co...

An Inquiry into EFL Instructors’ Organizational Silence, Job Insecurity, Job Satisfaction, and Burnout

The dualistic nature of the present study explored if there existed any relationship between organizational silence, job insecurity, job satisfaction, and burnout among EFL instructors and if job satisfaction me- diated the latent relationships among organizational silence, job insecurity, and burnout. To this end, 120 EFL instructors from different Azad University branches in the Fars pr...