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Job insecurity, commitment and proactivity towards the organization and one's career: Age as a condition
Author(s) -
Huang Guohua,
Zhang Yong,
Zhang Xiaomeng,
Long Lirong
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
human resource management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.44
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1748-8583
pISSN - 0954-5395
DOI - 10.1111/1748-8583.12322
Subject(s) - proactivity , psychology , job insecurity , perception , social psychology , qualitative property , qualitative research , business , sociology , engineering , social science , neuroscience , machine learning , computer science , electrical engineering , sense (electronics)
Employees today are faced with increasing levels of job insecurity (JI), which refers not only to the loss of one's job but also the loss of various job features that one desires to keep. We studied how two different aspects of JI perceptions, namely, quantitative JI and qualitative JI, influence employees' commitment and proactivity towards their organizations and careers, and we examined age as a condition of such effects. Time‐lagged data from 236 Chinese employees and their supervisors support most of our hypotheses, that is, qualitative JI affects commitment and, in turn, proactivity towards one's organization, whereas quantitative JI affects commitment and, in turn, proactivity towards one's career. Furthermore, the impact of qualitative JI was found to be stronger for younger employees, while the impact of quantitative JI was found to be stronger for older employees.