Job insecurity in managers: Antecedents and consequences
研究将工作不安全感视为长期模糊威胁，调查1291名管理者对其的反应，发现担忧与个人福祉下降、工作行为和态度恶化相关，但多数人更担心工作条件恶化和长期安全而非立即失业。
Abstract To date, popular accounts and systematic studies of the effects of job insecurity have focused exclusively on firms in acute crisis. In contrast, this study examines perceptions of the reactions to insecurity as a chronic, ambiguous threat. None of the 1291 managers surveyed was currently facing layoff, but half worked for firms that had laid off managers in the previous five years and half worked in a stable, expanding firm. As in previous studies, concern about any aspect of job insecurity was associated with decreased personal well‐being and deterioration of work behavior and attitudes. However, only a small minority of managers were seriously worried about imminent job loss, with substantially more anxious about a deterioration in working conditions and long‐term security.