Title: Knowledge toward employee's behaviour during job insecurity: evidence from four different sectors of developing country context

Authors: Naveed Saif; Muhammad Tahir Khan; Imrab Shaheen; Haji Rehman

Addresses: Institute of Management Sciences, University of Science and Technology Bannu, Pakistan ' Division of Management and Administrative Sciences, UE Business School, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan ' Department of Management Sciences, University of Kotli, Pakistan ' Department of Management Sciences, University of Buner, Pakistan

Abstract: Job insecurity is a term that is a major stressor among various departments across the globe. Job insecurity construct is validated across the western world, but to date, this field is neglected in a Pakistani work context. The current study tries to analyse the psychometric characteristics of the job insecurity scale across different organisation setups (namely higher education institutions, private primary and secondary education sector). For this purpose, data were obtained from the sample of (N = 950) of the organisation mentioned above through the survey. CFA and EFA results show that JIS consists of two factors (affective and cognitive dimensions) in the Pakistan work context. The result through hierarchal regression shows that JIS is negatively related to emotional exhaustion, normative and affective commitment, while positively related to physical and mental health complaints. Recommendations for further research are expressed at the end of the research work.

Keywords: job insecurity; commitment; mental health complaint; MHC; physical health complaint; PHC; emotional exhaustion.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2023.129908

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2023 Vol.16 No.2, pp.111 - 133

Received: 29 Nov 2021
Accepted: 10 Feb 2022
Published online: 03 Apr 2023 *

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