Open AccessImpact of Covid-19 Induced Job Insecurity on Psychological Wellbeing of Tourism and Hospitality Sector Employees in India
Author(s) -
. Vikash
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of social responsibility,tourism and hospitality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2799-1016
DOI - 10.55529/jsrth.11.41.50
Subject(s) - hospitality , tourism , feeling , respondent , pandemic , population , job insecurity , hospitality industry , well being , psychology , business , covid-19 , political science , social psychology , sociology , medicine , disease , work (physics) , infectious disease (medical specialty) , demography , mechanical engineering , pathology , law , psychotherapist , engineering
Present study assesses the status of the covid-19 induced job insecurity, psychological wellbeingand their correlation in case of tourism and hospitality sector employees of India. Data for thestudy was collected from 497 respondent employees of tourism and hospitality sectorundertakings. The findings indicated that Covid-19 has enhanced the feeling of job insecurityamongst study population as well has resulted in decreased well-being of employees and thereexist a negative correlation between the two i.e. increased job insecurity due to covid-19 resultsin diminished psychological wellbeing of employees.COVID-19 undoubtedly is most devastating and disruptive phenomenon of recent times. Severelockdowns were imposed by various governments with India being no exception, has drasticallyimpacted almost all the industries including tourism and hospitality. While there have beenstudies on the nature and possible impacts of this disease, possibility of vaccine, economiceffects of this pandemic, the psychological wellbeing of employees’ remained an ignored area.More so, tourism and hospitality sector being worst hit by this pandemic, employee of thesesectors faced the most severe burnt of this pandemic. To fill this research gap concerning theimpacts of Covid-19 induced job insecurity on employees psychological wellbeing with specialreference to tourism and hospitality sector employees, present study has been undertaken. Thisstudy attempts to assess the feeling job insecurity due to COVID-19 as well as tries to correlatesthe same with psychological wellbeing of employees.