Who Suffers
More from Job Insecurity?
A Meta-Analytic Review
Grand H.-L. Cheng
University of Queensland, Australia
Darius K.-S.
Chan*
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
The present
meta-analysis examined the tenure, age, and gender differences in the relationship between job insecurity and
its job-related and health-related
consequences. A total of 133 studies, providing
172 independent samples, were included in the analysis.
Our results basically
replicated Sverke et al.’s (2002) meta-analytic findings with an updated methodological approach and a larger database. The main differences between our findings and Sverke et al.’s are that the negative association between job insecurity and job performance was significant and that
the relationship between insecurity and job
involvement was smaller
in our study. The moderator analysis also indicated that:
(1) the positive association between
job
insecurity and turnover
intention was stronger
among employees with shorter tenure than those with longer tenure, and was stronger
among younger
than older employees; (2) the negative
effect of insecurity
on its health outcomes was more severe among employees with longer tenure
than
those
with shorter tenure, and was more
severe among older than younger
employees; (3)
the
relationship between insecurity and the criterion variables was similar across
gender. Results are discussed with refer- ence
to Hulin’s (1991) theory
of job adaptation and Greenhalgh and
Rosen- blatt’s (1984)
job dependence perspective.
La présente méta-analyse étudie
les différences de statut
(titulaire
ou
non), d’âge
et de genre dans la
relation entre l’insécurité de l’emploi et ses con- séquences relatives au travail et à la santé. Un total de 133 recherches, comprenant 172 échantillons indépendants, a
été inclu dans
l’analyse.
Nos résultats,
obtenus avec une approche
méthodologique actualisée et sur une plus grande base de données, sont pour l’essentiel congruents avec ceux de la méta- analyse de Sverke et al. (2002).
Les différences principales entre nos résultats
* Address for
correspondence: Darius Chan,
Department of Psychology, The Chinese
The paper is based in part on the first author’s
masters thesis, under the supervision
of the second
author, submitted
to the Chinese University of Hong Kong. We would like to thank Dr Robert Haccoun, the action editor, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
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et ceux de Sverke et al. sont les
suivantes: d’une
part, entre l’insécurité de l’emploi et la productivité la relation est
significativement négative, d’autre part la
relation entre l’insécurité de l’emploi et l’engagement au travail est moindre
dans notre étude.
L’analyse indique aussi que: (1) la relation positive
entre l’insécurité de l’emploi et l’intention de le quitter est plus forte
parmi les employés ayant
un
contrat à
courte
durée
contrairement à
ceux ayant un contrat à plus longue durée et est plus forte parmi les employés les plus jeunes; (2) l’effet négatif
de
l’insécurité
sur
la
santé
est
plus
important parmi
les
employés ayant un contrat de
longue durée que pour
ceux ayant un contrat de
plus courte durée,
ce qui est aussi le cas pour les employés
les plus âgés; (3) le genre n’a pas d’effet sur la relation
entre l’insécurité et les variables choisies. Les résultats sont discutés en référence
à la théorie de l’adaptation au travail de Hulin
(1991) et la perspective
de dépendance
au travail de Greenhalgh et
Rosenblatt (1984).
INTRODUCTION
Job insecurity has received
a considerable amount
of research attention in recent years
(Sverke, Hellgren, & Naswall,
2002). Numerous organisations worldwide have undergone
downsizing (Armstrong-Stassen,
2004) to reduce expenditure
and raise their effectiveness (Burke & Nelson,
1998). According to the United States Bureau
of Labor Statistics (2001), a total
of 21,345 mass layoffs events
occurred
there
in
2001. Forty-three per cent of the organisations surveyed by the Society for Human Resource
Management (2001) reported that they
had carried out layoffs,
with reductions in 10 per cent and 13 per cent of their locations’ workforces in 2000 and
2001, respec- tively. Long-term employment has become rare. More and more job oppor- tunities are temporary or contract-based (Sparks, Faragher, & Cooper, 2001).
All these changes
have led to a heightened
sense of job insecurity among the
workforce worldwide (Hartley,
Jacobson, Klandermans, & van Vuuren,
1991).
The purpose of the present
meta-analysis was to examine how three demo- graphic variables of employees, namely, organisational tenure, age, and gender, moderated the
relationship between job insecurity
and
its job-related and health-related consequences. We argue that it is important
to examine these moderating effects for four
reasons.
First,
after 25 years of job insecurity
research, little
is known about
who would
suffer more from job insecurity than others. Specifically, as described below, there are conflicting views and inconsistent findings on how organisational tenure,
age, and gender may moderate the effects of job insecurity on its outcomes.
The present meta-
analysis will help fill this gap in the job insecurity literature.
Second, investigating the moderating effects of demographic variables helps advance our understanding of the underlying
psychological
processes of job insecurity and is essential for theoretical
development in this field. For instance,
Sverke and his colleagues (2002) examined how occupational status
moderates the
relationship between job insecurity and its consequences. The results shed light on how job dependence,
which is reflected by occupational status, moderates the
effect
of job insecurity
on its
outcomes (discussed
below). In the
present study,
through examining the
moderating effects of tenure, age,
and gender, we tested predictions drawn from the theory
of job adaptation (Hulin,
1991) and the
job dependence perspective
(Green- halgh & Rosenblatt, 1984) on how
different employees may
react to job insecurity.
Specifically, Hulin’s (1991) theory
of job adaptation suggests how organ- isational commitment and job involvement
may moderate the relationship between job insecurity
and
its consequences. While organisational tenure was not included in the original
formulation of Hulin’s
theory, it has con- sistently been found
to be associated
with organisational commitment and job involvement (Brown, 1996; Mathieu &
Zajac, 1990). It is reasonable to conceptualise the
moderating effects of tenure by referring to the theory of job adaptation. In
a similar vein, Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt’s (1984) job dependence
perspective
predicts
how occupational mobility and economic insecurity
may
moderate the relationship between job insecurity
and
its consequences. While age and
gender were not
included
in Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt’s original
idea, these two demographic variables are associated with occupational mobility and economic
insecurity
(Kuhnert & Vance,
1992; Rosenblatt, Talmud,
& Ruvio, 1999).
We thus argue that the moder- ating effects of age and gender
can be conceptualised with
reference to the job
dependence
perspective.
In
other
words,
there
is theoretical basis for proposing
these moderating effects.
Third, understanding who would suffer more from
job insecurity merits examination because of its practical implications. A sense of insecurity has a negative impact on employees’
health and elicits withdrawal cognitions
such as turnover intention (Sverke et al., 2002). Health
problems and volun- tary turnover of employees
are detrimental to organisational
effectiveness
and are costly to organisations (Ramlall, 2003; Sagie, Birati, &
Tziner, 2002; Sparks et al., 2001). It is essential
for
organisations to
know
if certain
employees suffer more from job insecurity than others (Probst, 2000; Sparks et al., 2001).
Fourth, the previous
meta-analysis of job insecurity by Sverke
et
al. (2002)
revealed that there were
large variations in the effect
sizes of the relationship between
job
insecurity
and
its outcomes. However, some of these
variations
were
not
explained by
the moderators identified
by Sverke et al. (i.e.
type of measure
and
occupational status).
The
present meta-analysis, using
a larger database and different meta-analytic proce-
dures, attempted to extend Sverke et al.’s findings by examining whether
organisational tenure, age, and gender would account
for
some
of these variations.
Definition and Conceptualisation of Job Insecurity
Davy, Kinicki, and Scheck (1997) defined job insecurity
as an employee’s “expectations about continuity in a job situation” (p. 323). Similarly, van Vuuren
and
Klandermans (1990) defined job
insecurity as an individual’s
“concern about the
future permanence of the job” (p. 133),
and Heaney,
Israel, and House (1994)
defined the construct as an individual’s “percep- tion of a potential threat to continuity in his or her current
job” (p. 1431).
All in all, researchers have generally regarded job insecurity as “an overall
concern about the
continued existence of the job in the future”
(Sverke et al., 2002, p. 243; see also De Witte,
1999), and it is often assessed in terms of
respondents’ perceived probability of
job loss (e.g. Mohr,
2000).
Job insecurity is a job stressor (Ashford,
Lee, & Bobko,
1989; Probst, 2002; Sverke et al., 2002), which not only brings about
negative psychological and physical health
(Crandall & Perrewe, 1995; Quick & Tetrick, 2003), but also negative
job-related reactions. According to the theory of job adaptation (Hulin,
1991), employees would attempt
to alleviate
job dissatisfaction through various job adaptation responses.
For instance,
employees
may withdraw themselves from the stressor
by being
less satisfied with the job and less committed
to the organisation, and having a stronger
intention to leave the organisation (Davy et al., 1997; Probst,
2000, 2002). In fact, the meta-analysis conducted by Sverke and his colleagues (2002)
showed that job insecurity was negatively related to job satisfaction,
organisational commitment, trust, and job involve- ment, and was
positively related to turnover intention. In addition, job insecurity was negatively related to psychological
and physical
health.
The Relationship between Job Insecurity and its
Consequences
Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt (1984) identified a number of factors
that may moderate
the relationship between job insecurity and its consequences. Spe- cifically, they suggested that
social support, job dependence, and individual differences like work orientation may
moderate the
effect of job insecurity. Job insecurity may be particularly stressful to those who lack social support and/or tend to rank work
high in their
lives. Job dependence
is a function of
occupational mobility (the
perceived likelihood of finding
a similar job in another organisation)
and economic insecurity (the perceived inability to meet living expenses if losing the current job). According to Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt’s job dependence perspective, employees who are highly depend- ent
on their current jobs
should suffer
more from and react
more strongly to job insecurity.
Sverke et al.’s (2002) meta-analysis examined the moderating effects of type of measure
of job insecurity and occupational status of employees on
the relationship between job insecurity and its consequences.
They
found that
the negative effect
of job insecurity on job satisfaction,
trust,
and per- formance
was stronger when
job insecurity was captured by multiple-item
than by single-item measures. Furthermore, the negative impact of job insecu- rity on performance and turnover intention
was more profound among manual employees (blue-collar workers) than non-manual employees (white-collar workers, professionals, and managers). Sverke
et al. argued that manual employees react more strongly
to insecurity because
these employees gener- ally have lower levels of education and skills, and are more
dependent
on their current
jobs.
However, Sverke et al. (2002)
showed that type of measure
and occupa- tional
status
did not moderate the relationship between job insecurity and its health-related outcomes. This has raised two questions.
First, as revealed by
Sverke et al., the effect
sizes of the relationship between
job insecurity
and its
health-related outcomes varied
greatly across studies.
There should be other moderating
factors accounting for these variations,
which were not captured by
type of measure and occupational status. Second, the finding that
occupational status
did not
moderate the
impact of job insecurity on psychological and physical
health left a question about whether job depend- ence moderates the
relationship between job insecurity and its health-related
consequences (see
Greenhalgh & Rosenblatt, 1984). In
this light, we pro- posed to examine other
factors which may account
for the variations
in the relationship between job insecurity and its consequences.
The Moderating Effects of
Organisational Tenure and Age
Organisational tenure and age are closely related. Employees with longer tenure are likely to be older than those with shorter
tenure. The moderating
effect of age, if any, should be consistent
with that of tenure.
However, it is
also important to examine
the moderating effects of tenure
and age separately. According to Cohen (1991),
tenure and age seem to capture different
mean- ings. Specifically, age is associated with both career issues and psychological
issues in one’s life
events. It has implications not only on one’s status in the organisation but
also on one’s non-work aspects such as family and
social life. On the contrary,
tenure mainly captures career
issues with fewer effects upon life events. As described below,
age
indicates
one’s
occupational mobility (a career
issue) and economic insecurity
(related to family obliga-
tions). While
tenure mainly
reflects career issues,
it seems to be associated
with some specific
aspects of career issues (e.g.
organisational commitment and job involvement) that may not be captured by age. That
is, the moder- ating effects of tenure
and
age on the relationship between job insecurity and its outcomes may be manifest through different psychological
processes.
One
perspective on the moderating effects of organisational tenure
and age on the impact of job insecurity is that the association should be stronger among
employees
with longer tenure than
those with shorter
tenure, and be stronger
among older than
younger
employees. Organisational tenure is positively related to organisational commitment (Mathieu & Zajac,
1990), which is positively associated with
job involvement (Brown,
1996). Employ- ees with longer tenure
are typically more committed to their organisations, and are identified more
with and invest more in their jobs than employees
with shorter tenure. They should
then have greater
negative reactions to job insecurity (Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt, 1984; Kuhnert & Palmer, 1991; Mathieu & Zajac,
1990). In fact, Probst (2000) found that only among
employees who were highly involved in their jobs, were
high job insecurity perceptions related to lower level of psychological well-being than low job insecurity perceptions. Similarly, Allen, Freeman, Russell, Reizenstein, and Rentz (2001) reported
that the association
between job insecurity and turn- over
intention was
stronger among employees highly involved in their jobs than
the less involved employees.
Older employees
may also react more strongly to job insecurity than their younger counterparts. Age reflects
occupational
mobility and economic
insecurity, which are the two indicators
of job dependence (see job dependence perspective; Greenhalgh & Rosenblatt, 1984). Compared with their younger counterparts, older employees perceive a lower level of
occupational mobil- ity, and should thus be more
dependent on their current jobs and react more strongly to job insecurity
(Kuhnert & Vance, 1992).
Furthermore, older employees generally have more family obligations than younger employees (Finegold,
Mohrman, & Spreitzer, 2002; Kuhnert & Vance, 1992). With more family obligations, older employees may be more sensitive to economic insecurity and thus
be more vulnerable to job insecurity. In fact,
Kuhnert and Vance (1992) found
that there
was a stronger relationship between job insecurity and
well-being among employees with a lower level of occupa- tional mobility than
those
with
a
higher
level of occupational mobility. Similarly, Finegold
et al.
(2002) reported that
job
insecurity
had
a more negative
impact on organisational
commitment
and turnover intention
among older
employees than younger
employees.
However, an opposite view on
the moderating effects of organisational tenure and age on the impact of job insecurity is that the association
should be
stronger among employees with shorter tenure than
those
with
longer tenure, and be stronger
among
younger
than
older employees.
First, let
us examine the tenure
effect. According to Hulin’s (1991) theory of job adapta- tion,
employees
engage in job adaptation (e.g. having a stronger
intention to leave the organisation) in order
to relieve stressful job situations,
such as a sense
of job
insecurity.
Although the range of job adaptation responses
is potentially broad, the choice is usually
limited
by individual
and organisational contingencies. Depending
on the
situation, employees,
particularly those who
value their
jobs, would
choose the
potentially adaptive cognitions
and behaviors that are most likely
to reduce job stress (Roznowski & Hulin, 1992).
Because work withdrawal
simply jeopardises
the employment and exacerbates the stressor (Probst, 2000), one can expect that
compared
to those with
shorter tenure, employees with longer tenure would be less likely to engage
in work withdrawal as a way of adaptation
because these
employees are usually more involved in their jobs. In other words, employees with shorter tenure should
react
more
strongly
to
job insecurity than those
with longer tenure.
Regarding the
age effect, younger employees may also react
more strongly to job insecurity than their older counterparts. Kuhnert and Vance (1992) reported that under
the threat of job loss, older employees reported
better well-being than did younger employees. These authors attributed this finding to the difference in attitudes toward
job loss between younger and older
employees.
As suggested by De Witte (1999), older employees may simply consider job loss as an earlier retirement, and thus suffer less from job
insecurity than younger
employees.
The Moderating Effect of Gender
Gender has also been suggested as a moderator of
the association between job
insecurity and its consequences.
Rosenblatt and
her colleagues (1999) reported that the negative effect of job insecurity on female
employees’ work attitudes was stronger than
on male employees’ attitudes. These authors argued that men typically have a higher occupational mobility than women, and thus the threat
of job loss should be less distressing to men (see job
dependence perspective; Greenhalgh & Rosenblatt, 1984).
On
the contrary, De Witte (1999) found that job insecurity was negatively related to male employees’, but not female employees’, well-being. Tradi- tionally, it is believed
that men regard
themselves as the “breadwinner” of their families (Bernard, 1981), while women consider financial matters as their secondary responsibility (Conger,
Lorenz,
Edler,
Simons,
& Xiaojia,
1993). Male employees
may
thus
suffer
more
from
job
insecurity
than female
employees because male employees are more
aware
of the possible negative consequences of job loss (De Witte,
1999). According to the job dependence perspective (Greenhalgh & Rosenblatt, 1984), people who are economically
insecure,
or
worry
that
they
cannot
meet
living expenses
if they lose their current
job, are vulnerable
to job insecurity.
In
sum, one view on the moderating effect of gender is that
the threat of job
loss should be less
distressing to men than to women because men usually have higher occupational mobility. However, an opposing view would argue
that men are more vulnerable
to job insecurity than women
because
they are more sensitive to economic insecurity. Both views have received
empirical support and it is unclear
whether
men would suffer more from and
react more strongly to job insecurity than women.
The Present Study
The present meta-analysis was thus designed to examine the moderating effects of organisational tenure, age, and gender
on the relationship between job insecurity and its job-related
and health-related consequences.1 Follow- ing Sverke et al. (2002), we included job satisfaction,
organisational commitment, turnover intention, work performance, trust,
and job involve- ment as the job-related
criterion variables. Furthermore, we
included psychological health and physical health as the health-related criterion variables.
METHOD
Literature Search, Inclusion Criteria,
and
Coding Procedure
The
search for
published
studies
involved both computer and
manual methods. The keywords
for our search
were job security and job insecurity, and the
time frame
was 1980 to
2006. The computer-based search
was conducted on PsycINFO, ABI/INFORM, Social Science Citation
Index
and Medline. The
issue-by-issue manual search was
conducted
on
15 academic
journals, namely, Academy of Management Journal, Anxiety, Stress and Coping: An International Journal, Applied Psychology: An International
Review,
European Journal of Work and
Organizational Psy- chology, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Man- agerial Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal
of Occupational Health
Psychology, Journal of
Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Psychological Bulletin, Social Science and Medicine, Stress Medicine
(Stress and Health), and Work and Stress.
In addition to published
papers, we also tried to include dissertations and unpublished studies. We searched for
dissertations shown in Dissertation Abstracts International for the current
meta-analysis.
We also contacted
1 Other potential moderating factors like mood
dispositions (Roskies, Louis-Guerin, & Fournier, 1993) and social
support (Lim,
1996) were not included because these factors
have not been examined
in a sufficient number of primary
studies or cannot
be aggregated meaning- fully for meta-analysis.
prominent scholars in the area of job insecurity
and
asked them for
their unpublished studies of job insecurity, if any. Twelve scholars responded to our request.2 Moreover, we
inspected the reference lists of the studies obtained
and review papers on job insecurity (e.g. Sverke & Hellgren, 2002; Sverke et al., 2002) to locate
additional studies.
To
be included in the current
meta-analysis of job insecurity, studies must be in English3 and measure the subjective experience of job insecurity
(e.g. perceived likelihood of job loss) of employed people.
Moreover, they
must report zero-order
correlation or other statistics that can be transformed into
a correlation coefficient (e.g. the t-value; see Hunter & Schmidt, 1990) between individual employees’ job insecurity
and
at least one of the crite- rion variables of interest
(i.e. job satisfaction,
organisational commitment,
turnover intention, psychological
health,
physical health,4 work perform- ance, trust, and
job involvement). Articles that
used multiplicative com- posites to measure
job insecurity were excluded5 (unlike Sverke et al., 2002). For longitudinal studies, only the first-wave data were considered. Some papers provided data from the same or overlapping
samples, so preference (in descending order) was given to the one allowing
us to test the moderat-
ing effect, including
more criterion variables, involving a larger
sample and published most
recently.
A total of 133
studies were included in the current analysis
(121 published studies and 12 dissertations;6 all marked with
an asterisk in the References
section). These studies provided 172 independent samples,
with
132,927
employees involved. The number
of independent samples included in our study was 86 more than
that
included in Sverke et al. (2002).
2 We thank
Marjorie
Armstrong-Stassen,
Julian Barling, Ronald Burke,
Hans De
Witte, Leon Grunberg, Johnny
Hellgren, John
Kammeyer-Mueller, Ulla
Kinnunen, Saija Mauno, Sarah
Moore,
Tahira
Probst,
and Magnus Sverke
for their replies.
3 Based
on the results of Egger,
Zellweger-Zahner, Schneider, Junker, Lengeler, and Antes
(1997) and Juni, Holstein, Sterne, Barlett, and Egger
(2002), Dickersin (2005) concluded that one does not necessarily assume
that publication practices are language related.
It seems to be equally
likely for both non-English
studies and English studies
to report statistically significant
results. On
the other hand, we should note that excluding non-English studies
might
have reduced the number of samples in our analysis.
4 Indicators like anxiety and psychological
distress
were
considered
as
the
indicators of psychological health
such that absence of
anxiety and psychological distress implied good psychological health. Physical
symptoms
like headache and back pain were considered as indicators of physical
health such that absence of physical symptoms implied good physical health.
5 Evans (1991) noted that it is inappropriate to
include
the
multiplicative composite in bivariate
correlational analysis. Analysis
addressing the simple bivariate relationship between the multiplicative composite and criterion
variables
is subject to scaling effect and may thus give
rise to spurious results. Meta-analysing such correlations may lead to problematic conclusions.
6 The
unpublished studies provided
by other researchers did not meet our inclusion criteria
and, hence, were not included
in the analysis.
Two
raters, who
were psychology graduate students,
coded
the
172 in- dependent
samples included
in the analysis. Specifically, for each independ-
ent sample, raters
coded its sample size,
the reliabilities of job insecurity
and each criterion variable, and the uncorrected effect sizes that
indicate
the relationship between job insecurity and
the criterion variables.
Raters
also recorded the potential moderators, i.e. mean organisational tenure, mean age, and gender
composition (percentage of males) of each sample.7 Over 90 per cent of the initial coding
decisions were consistent. Any inconsistencies were resolved
by discussion among the
raters and
the authors.
For samples not reporting the reliability of a multi-item measure of a certain variable,
the sample size–weighted mean reliability of the multi-item
measure of that
variable
across the samples was used as the substitute (see e.g. Judge & Ilies, 2002; Shaw, Wild, & Colquitt, 2003; Sverke et al., 2002).
For studies using a single-item measure
for a certain variable, when the corresponding reliability was missing we followed
the procedure proposed by
Williams, McDaniel, and Nguyen (2006). Specifically, we estimated the sample size–weighted mean reliability of single-item measures of each vari- able
and used
this estimate as the substitute
(but
see Sverke et al., 2002).
The mean reliabilities of multi-item measures of job insecurity, job satisfac- tion, organisational commitment, turnover intention, psychological health, physical health, work performance, trust, and job involvement were .77, .79,
.80, .76, .84, .81, .72, .82, and
.74, respectively. The mean
reliabilities of single-item measures
of these
variables were
.46, .48, .40, .44, .34, .30, .34,
.48, and .49, respectively.
Effect sizes like the t-value
were transformed into Pearson’s
correlation coefficients. For samples reporting effect sizes
between job insecurity
and multiple measures of a criterion
variable
(e.g. correlations between job in- security and anxiety as well as distress), we computed a single estimate when standard deviations
of these variables and the intercorrelations
among these variables were
available (Hunter & Schmidt, 1990).
A simple average
was instead computed
when such information was not offered (cf. Martinussen
& Bjornstad, 1999).
7 Some may question
the validity of testing the moderating effect of individual-level variables
such as organisational tenure and age in a meta-analysis. It is because the unit of analysis in a meta-analysis
is samples, not
individuals. Mean tenure
and mean
age of samples are
used, and within-sample variances in tenure and age are not captured. However, we argued that
our predictions were
all
drawn
from
theories
(our
discussions
about
the
moderating effects of organisational tenure,
and the moderating effects of age and gender were based on the theory of job adaptation and the job dependence
perspective, respectively). In addition, it is a common practice
to
examine
the
moderating effects of demographic variables
such as organisational tenure, age, and gender
in meta-analysis (e.g. Chapman, Uggerslev, Carroll, Piasentin, & Jones,
2005;
Eagly, Johannesen-Schmidt, & van Engen, 2003; Griffeth, Hom, & Gaertner, 2000; Riketta, 2002).
Meta-Analytic Procedures
Hunter and Schmidt’s (1990)
meta-analytic method was employed
to estimate the “true” correlations (corrected effect sizes)
between job insecurity and its consequences. Each observed
correlation was corrected for measurement
error by taking
the reliabilities of job insecurity
and the criterion variables
into account, and weighted
by sample size and
degree of artifact correction
(Hunter &
Schmidt, 1990;
see e.g. Meyer, Stanley, Herscovitch, & Topol- nytsky, 2002; but see Sverke et al., 2002). A 95 per cent confidence interval
was constructed for the association
between
job insecurity and each criterion variable to test if each of these
associations was non-zero.
The 75 per cent rule and the
credibility interval of each relationship were used to examine
the presence of moderators (Hunter
& Schmidt, 1990; Whitener, 1990;
see e.g. Zhao & Seibert,
2006).
For the
identification of moderators, we referred
to the results of Hunter and Schmidt’s (1990) subgroup
analysis.8 According to Hunter and Schmidt, the main criterion
for the identification of moderators is whether
the corrected
effect sizes of subgroups
differ substantially (e.g. Judge & Ilies, 2002; Meyer et
al.,
2002). Following Brown (1996),
Mathieu and Zajac (1990), and Sverke et al. (2002),
we conducted a t-test for small samples
(Winer, Brown,
& Michels, 1991) to test for the differences in corrected correlations across subgroups. We also applied
the Bonferroni method to control for Type I errors.
It is a common practice
to break down continuous variables into categories to
test moderating effects in
subgroup
analysis
(Steel &
Kammeyer- Mueller, 2002). Following previous operationalisations of time frames
of organisational tenure (e.g. Gould
& Hawkins, 1978;
Mount, 1984) and age (e.g. Gould, 1979;
Rush,
Peacock, & Milkovich, 1980), and previous meta-analyses such
as Cohen (1991, 1993) and Griffeth, Hom, and Gaertner (2000), in our
subgroup
analysis
samples
with mean organisa-
tional tenure equal to or longer
than
9 years were
regarded as being of
8 The correlation between organisational tenure and
age in our database was quite
high (r = .69, p < .001). However, we did not run a multiple
weighted least square (WLS) regression
(Hedges & Olkin, 1985;
Steel & Kammeyer-Mueller, 2002; Viswesvaran &
Sanchez, 1998), which takes multicollinearity into account, to examine the moderating effects of tenure,
age, and gender because
there were only a handful of studies reporting all three pieces of informa- tion about tenure,
age, and gender composition. On the
other hand, we ran
a simple
WLS regression as a reference
to subgroup analysis for the identification of
moderators. Note that subgroup
analysis,
which involves
splitting studies into subgroups, may be less powerful to detect continuous moderators than WLS regression (Steel & Kammeyer-Mueller, 2002). Sample size and degree
of artifact correction
were used as the weight in the regression analysis. The corrected
effect sizes were
regressed on tenure, age,
and gender composition, respectively. The Bonferroni adjustment was applied.
longer organisational tenure.
And samples with mean age equal to or higher than
40 were regarded as older.
Note that
a subgroup
analysis was not run for
the relationship between
job insecurity
and certain
variables when there were fewer than
three samples
in at least one of the subgroups.
RESULTS
The estimated true
(corrected)
correlations, the
confidence
intervals,
the percentages of variance accounted for
by artifacts, and
the credibility intervals are summarised in Table 1. Results showed
that job insecurity was negatively related
to job satisfaction (rc = −.43), organisational commitment (rc = −.35), work performance (rc = −.21), trust (rc = −.49), and job involvement (rc = −.20), and was positively
related to turnover intention (rc = .32). In addition, job insecurity was negatively
related to
psychological health (rc = −.28) and physical health (rc = −.23). That the confidence intervals of these relationships excluded zero suggested that
these associations were significantly different from zero. The amount
of variance
of all these relation- ships accounted for by artifacts was less than 75 per cent. Furthermore, the
credibility intervals of these relationships were large. These results suggested that
these relationships were subject to certain moderating effects.
The Moderating Effect of Organisational Tenure
Organisational tenure moderated the
relationship between
job
insecurity and turnover intention (Table 2). Subgroup
analysis showed that this relationship was stronger among employees with shorter tenure (rc = .41) than employees with longer tenure
(rc = .24). Organisational tenure also moder- ated the relationship between job insecurity
and
physical health (Table
2). Subgroup analysis revealed
that the association between job insecurity and physical health
was more profound among
employees
with longer tenure (rc = −.30) than employees with shorter
tenure
(rc = −.22). The moderating effect of organisational tenure
on the relationships between
job insecurity
and job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and psychological health was
non-significant.9
The Moderating Effect of Age
Subgroup analysis showed that age moderated the
effects of job insecurity on turnover intention, psychological health, and physical health (Table
3).
9 The
results of simple
WLS regression were consistent with those
of subgroup analysis for tenure,
age, and gender.
TABLE 1
The Relationship between Job Insecurity and its
Consequences
Criterion variable
|
N
|
k
|
95% CI
r
SE lower
|
95% CI
upper
|
rc SD
|
80% CV
lower
|
80% CV
upper
|
% due to artifacts
|
Job Satisfaction
|
76260
|
94
|
−.32
|
.01
|
−.35
|
−.30
|
−.43
|
.18
|
−.66
|
−.21
|
19.90
|
Organisational Commitment
|
38650
|
83
|
−.26
|
.02
|
−.30
|
−.23
|
−.35
|
.24
|
−.65
|
−.05
|
12.01
|
Turnover Intention
|
25669
|
49
|
.22
|
.01
|
.19
|
.25
|
.32
|
.14
|
.14
|
.50
|
32.87
|
Psychological Health
|
72339
|
77
|
−.20
|
.01
|
−.22
|
−.18
|
−.28
|
.12
|
−.43
|
−.12
|
22.92
|
Physical Health
|
56934
|
44
|
−.16
|
.01
|
−.18
|
−.13
|
−.23
|
.13
|
−.40
|
−.06
|
16.50
|
Work Performance
|
3752
|
15
|
−.16
|
.03
|
−.22
|
−.11
|
−.21
|
.13
|
−.37
|
−.05
|
35.63
|
Trust
|
4152
|
16
|
−.35
|
.02
|
−.40
|
−.31
|
−.49
|
.18
|
−.72
|
−.26
|
40.16
|
Job Involvement
|
3034
|
6
|
−.15
|
.03
|
−.21
|
−.09
|
−.20
|
.08
|
−.31
|
−.10
|
33.78
|
Note: N = sample
size; k = number of sample; r = uncorrected mean correlation; SE =
standard error of r; CI = confidence
interval; rc = estimated
true correlation; SD
= standard deviation of r; CV = credibility interval; % due to artifacts = percentage of variance accounted for by artifacts.
TABLE 2
Subgroup Analysis of the
Moderating Effect
on
the
Relationship between Job
Insecurity and its Consequences: by Organisational Tenure
Criterion variable Tenure N k r
SE
rc SD t df
Job Satisfaction
|
Shorter
|
6813
|
14
|
−.24
|
.02
|
−.31
|
.12
|
.47
|
38
|
|
Longer
|
11408
|
25
|
−.27
|
.03
|
−.34
|
.19
|
|
|
Organisational Commitment
|
Shorter
|
4982
|
19
|
−.27
|
.04
|
−.36
|
.16
|
1.47
|
47
|
|
Longer
|
15658
|
28
|
−.23
|
.03
|
−.28
|
.24
|
|
|
Turnover Intention
|
Shorter
|
2804
|
9
|
.28
|
.02
|
.41
|
.00
|
5.69**
|
16
|
|
Longer
|
10482
|
17
|
.18
|
.02
|
.24
|
.12
|
|
|
Psychological Health
|
Shorter
|
1337
|
4
|
−.21
|
.03
|
−.27
|
.04
|
1.70
|
6
|
|
Longer
|
10515
|
17
|
−.25
|
.01
|
−.31
|
.04
|
|
|
Physical Health
|
Shorter
|
1604
|
6
|
−.14
|
.02
|
−.22
|
.03
|
5.17**
|
11
|
|
Longer
|
5500
|
9
|
−.22
|
.02
|
−.30
|
.03
|
|
|
Note: Subgroup analysis
was not run
for
the relationships between job insecurity
and work
performance, trust, and job involvement because
in these relationships there were fewer than three
samples in at least one of the subgroups. Shorter:
Mean
organisational tenure
of the sample
< 9; Longer:
≥ 9. ** p <
.01 (after Bonferroni adjustment).
TABLE 3
Subgroup Analysis
of the Moderating Effect on the Relationship between Job
Insecurity and its Consequences: by
Age
Criterion variable
|
Age
|
N
|
k
|
r
|
SE
|
rc
|
SD t df
|
Job Satisfaction
|
Younger
|
31183
|
33
|
−.32
|
.02
|
−.42
|
.17
|
.25
|
60
|
|
Older
|
21098
|
30
|
−.30
|
.02
|
−.41
|
.19
|
|
|
Organisational Commitment
|
Younger
|
12679
|
29
|
−.21
|
.02
|
−.28
|
.15
|
.89
|
44
|
|
Older
|
9120
|
27
|
−.19
|
.04
|
−.23
|
.24
|
|
|
Turnover Intention
|
Younger
|
3513
|
14
|
.26
|
.02
|
.36
|
.07
|
2.59#
|
23
|
|
Older
|
6324
|
16
|
.20
|
.03
|
.26
|
.15
|
|
|
Psychological Health
|
Younger
|
27008
|
21
|
−.16
|
.02
|
−.24
|
.12
|
2.49#
|
45
|
|
Older
|
32943
|
29
|
−.24
|
.01
|
−.32
|
.12
|
|
|
Physical Health
|
Younger
|
24104
|
15
|
−.12
|
.02
|
−.19
|
.12
|
2.53#
|
32
|
|
Older
|
25226
|
17
|
−.20
|
.02
|
−.30
|
.13
|
|
|
Work Performance
|
Younger
|
2847
|
9
|
−.15
|
.04
|
−.19
|
.11
|
1.50
|
11
|
|
Older
|
722
|
4
|
−.19
|
.06
|
−.25
|
.03
|
|
|
Note: Subgroup analysis was not run for
the
relationships
between job insecurity and trust, and job involvement
because
in
these
relationships there
were
fewer than three samples in at least one of the subgroups. Younger: Mean age of the sample < 40; Older: > = 40. # p < .10 (after Bonferroni
adjustment).
The relationship between job insecurity
and
turnover was more profound
among younger employees (rc = .36) than older
employees (rc = .26). The effect of job insecurity
on psychological health
was stronger among older
employees (rc = −.32) than younger employees (rc = −.24), and that on physical
health
was also stronger
among
older
employees (rc = −.30) than
TABLE 4
Subgroup Analysis of the
Moderating Effect
on
the
Relationship between Job
Insecurity and its Consequences: by Gender
Criterion variable Gender N k r SE rc SD t df
Job Satisfaction
|
Male
|
9758
|
6
|
−.37
|
.02
|
−.60
|
.08
|
.12
|
11
|
|
Female
|
6885
|
7
|
−.39
|
.03
|
−.61
|
.16
|
|
|
Psychological Health
|
Male
|
18387
|
10
|
−.25
|
.02
|
−.38
|
.12
|
.87
|
18
|
|
Female
|
9898
|
8
|
−.22
|
.03
|
−.34
|
.11
|
|
|
Physical Health
|
Male
|
17422
|
5
|
−.22
|
.01
|
−.33
|
.13
|
.34
|
9
|
|
Female
|
9419
|
4
|
−.20
|
.01
|
−.30
|
.13
|
|
|
Note: Male-only samples were compared with female-only samples.
Subgroup analysis was not run for the relationships between job insecurity and organisational commitment, turnover
intention, work performance,
trust, and
job involvement because
in these relationships there were fewer than three
samples in at least one of the subgroups. The Bonferroni adjustment was applied.
younger employees (rc = −.19). On the
other
hand, the
associations between job insecurity
and
job
satisfaction, organisational commitment, and work performance did not differ between younger
employees
and older employees.
The Moderating Effect of Gender
Subgroup analysis revealed that the relationship between
job insecurity and its consequences among males was comparable to that among females (Table 4). Specifically,
the difference in the relationship between job insecurity and job satisfaction across gender
was non-significant. The difference in the effect of job insecurity on psychological
health
and physical
health across
gender was also non-significant.
DISCUSSION
The present meta-analytic study revealed a significant relationship between job insecurity and its consequences.
Results showed
that job insecurity was negatively related to job satisfaction, organisational commitment, psycho- logical health, physical health, work
performance, trust,
and
job
involve- ment, and was positively related to turnover intention. The estimates of the main effects found in our study were generally comparable to those reported in
Sverke et al.’s (2002) study. One notable discrepancy between our results and Sverke et al.’s results
was that the estimate of the association between job insecurity and work performance was found to be significant
in our study but not in Sverke et al.’s study. Another
notable
discrepancy
was that
the estimate of the association
between job insecurity and
job involvement found in our
study
was much lower
than that reported in Sverke et al.’s
study (rc = −.20 vs. rc = −.37). The discrepancy in the estimates
of the main effects could be attributed to the fact that our database was more up to date than Sverke
et al.’s. Furthermore, as
described in the Method
section, our meta-analytic procedures
were different from theirs in a number of ways.
The present study also revealed
that organisational tenure and age moderated the relationship between job insecurity and turnover intention.
Furthermore, tenure and age moderated the
relationship between
job in- security and its health-related outcomes. On the other hand, gender
did not moderate the
relationship between job insecurity and its consequences.
The Moderating Effects of
Organisational Tenure and
Age on the Relationship between
Job Insecurity and its
Job-related Outcomes
The relationship between
job insecurity and turnover intention was found to be stronger
among employees
with shorter tenure
than
employees with longer tenure. This
is in line with the arguments
of the theory of job adap- tation
(Hulin,
1991). According to the theory of job adaptation, employees would attempt to engage in cognitions
and behaviors which are most effec- tive to alleviate stressful job situations. Turnover
seems to be a good choice for
employees
with
shorter
tenure
to
escape from job insecurity because these employees have a smaller
psychological investment in their organisa-
tions (see Brown, 1996;
Cohen, 1991; Mathieu & Zajac,
1990). On the other hand,
employees with longer tenure, who value their jobs more, avoid
engaging in withdrawal cognitions and behaviors
because work withdrawal simply makes their employment more vulnerable (Probst, 2000).
With reference to Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt’s
(1984) job
dependence perspective, older
employees,
who have lower
levels of perceived occupa- tional mobility and are more sensitive to economic insecurity, should
be more dependent
on their current
jobs and thus
should react
more strongly to job insecurity (Finegold et al., 2002; Kuhnert & Vance,
1992). However, our results showed
that the association
between job insecurity and turnover intention was actually more profound among younger employees. Younger employees are
less dependent
on their current jobs (Kuhnert &
Vance,
1992), and turnover may be a readily available option for them to handle the
existing stressful job-insecure situation (see
also the theory of job adap- tation;
Hulin,
1991). Hence,
when facing job insecurity, younger
employees have a stronger
intention
to leave their organisation than older employees.
Sverke et al. (2002) showed that
the influence
of job insecurity on turn- over
intention was stronger among
manual employees than non-manual employees. They argued that under the threat
of job loss, manual
employees
have a stronger turnover intention because these employees have lower occupational mobility and are thus more
dependent on their
current
jobs. Further research
is called for addressing the discrepancy
between Sverke et al.’s results and our results,
which shows that younger job-insecure employees, who
are less dependent on their jobs,
have a stronger
turnover inten- tion. One possibility for this discrepancy is that unlike
occupational status, age not
only reflects occupational mobility
but
also
economic
insecurity. Compared with older employees, younger
employees have fewer family obli- gations (Finegold et al., 2002; Kuhnert & Vance, 1992). With fewer family obligations, younger employees may be less worried about
the financial
situation of being jobless,
and are
thus more inclined to leave the current job-insecure organisation.
Our
results revealed that organisational tenure and age did not moderate
the impact of job insecurity
on job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and work performance. Compared to job satisfaction, organisational com-
mitment, and work
performance, turnover intention
has a special implica-
tion for coping
with job insecurity (Davy et al., 1997). As
discussed above, compared to having lower levels of job satisfaction, organisational commit-
ment, and work performance, leaving the stressful job-insecure organisation (having a high level of turnover intention) seems to be a more effective
way for employees to cope with job insecurity, particularly for those with shorter tenure
and younger age (usually having
a smaller psychological investment in their jobs and a lower
level of economic insecurity). Hence, there
are moderating effects of organisational tenure and age on the relationship between job insecurity and turnover intention,
but not on the relationships
between job insecurity and job
satisfaction, organisational commitment, and work performance.
The Moderating Effects of
Organisational Tenure and
Age on the Relationship between
Job Insecurity and its
Health-related Outcomes
The negative association between job insecurity and health was found to be stronger among employees
with longer tenure than employees with shorter tenure. Employees with longer
tenure are generally more involved in their jobs
and more committed to their
organisations than
those
with
shorter tenure (Brown, 1996; Cohen, 1991;
Mathieu &
Zajac, 1990).
Hence, these employees are more vulnerable
to the threat
of job loss (Probst, 2000).
In a similar vein, the negative
association between job insecurity and health was
found to be more
severe among older employees than
younger employees. This is consistent with the predictions of Greenhalgh and Rosen- blatt’s (1984) job dependence perspective, which suggests
that job insecurity
is particularly stressful to individuals
who
are
highly
dependent
on
their
jobs. Older employees suffer more from job insecurity because they
are less likely to perceive themselves as being able to find comparable jobs in other organisations and are thus highly
dependent on their jobs (Kuhnert & Vance, 1992). Another
possible reason for older
employees
being
highly dependent on their jobs is that
they generally
have more family
obligations and are more sensitive
to economic insecurity (Finegold
et al., 2002; Kuhnert
& Vance, 1992). Note that Sverke et al. (2002)
found that occupational
status, which reflects job dependence, did not moderate the relationship
between job insecurity and its health-related outcomes. Perhaps occupa- tional status is only
related to occupational mobility but not amount
of family
obligations and economic insecurity. Further studies
may
address this speculation.
The Moderating Effect of Gender
We predicted that gender might moderate
the relationship between job insecurity
and its
consequences. Traditionally, females
are expected
to have lower occupational mobility than males (Rosenblatt et
al., 1999), while males are more likely
to regard themselves as the
“breadwinner” of their families (De Witte, 1999). Our results
did not show any gender
difference in the effect
of job insecurity. One possible
reason
is that more and more females are
committed to their jobs
(Bradley, 1997)
and the
difference in work
orientation between
males
and
females
is becoming small (Hakim,
1996). Another possible
reason
is that job
opportunities for females have been creeping
up slowly towards those
of males (Bradley, 1997). That is, the occupational mobility of females may have become
comparable to that of males.
And it has been increasingly common for
the woman to be the pri- mary “breadwinner” of
the family. According
to the United States
Census Bureau (2004), there are more and
more females
who are earning as much as,
if not more than, their spouse
(or partner). Taken together,
job insecu- rity
seems
to
be
equally
dissatisfying
and
stressful
to
both males and females.
Limitations and Further Research
Directions
It is important to
note that our estimates of the relationship between job insecurity
and
its consequences were subject to the following biases.
First, we did not have any unpublished studies in our database, despite our effort to
collect such
papers. We did
try to
include as
many dissertations as possible. We also carried out the funnel plots (Sterne, Becker, & Egger, 2005) and
they appeared roughly
symmetrical.
Nevertheless,
future
meta-analysis of job insecurity should
try to include unpublished studies to reduce publi- cation
bias.
Second,
the
reliabilities
coded
were Cronbach’s alpha which
fails to account
for stability and transient errors
(Schmidt,
Le,
& Ilies,
2003). As a result,
the population correlations would be underestimated. Third, because the mean
reliabilities
used as substitutes
were less variable than
the actual
reliability values which
were missing, the
population variance would be underestimated. Fourth, we
could not correct
for indirect range restriction
(Hunter, Schmidt, & Le,
2006; Schmidt,
Oh, & Le,
2006). To the extent that the measures
were subject
to indirect
range restriction, population
correlations
would
be
underestimated and SDs would be overestimated.
We did not run multiple
regression analysis to investigate the unique moderating
effects of organisational tenure
and
age
on
the
relationship between job insecurity and its consequences. Because organisational tenure is closely related to age, one
may instead conclude
from
our
results
that when facing
job
insecurity, older employees who typically have longer tenure have a lower level of turnover intention and have more
health
problems than younger employees (who typically have shorter
tenure).
Further primary studies should
examine
the relative importance of the unique moderating effects of tenure and age. This
is important for clarifying
the
differential effects of these two variables.
As
discussed above, organisational tenure and age seem to capture differ-
ent meanings and influence the association
between
job insecurity and its consequences through different processes. Organisational tenure reflects job involvement and organisational
commitment (Brown, 1996; Mathieu & Zajac, 1990) while age captures occupational
mobility and economic
insecu- rity (Kuhnert & Vance, 1992). However, the
present study did not address whether organisational commitment and job involvement really account for the tenure difference in the relationship between job insecurity
and its consequences. It also
did not
reveal
whether occupational mobility and economic insecurity really account for the age difference in the relationship
between job insecurity and its consequences.
Future research should
be conducted to examine
if the moderating effect of organisational tenure on the association between job insecurity
and
its consequences is mediated by organisational commitment and
job involve- ment. For instance,
the positive association between job insecurity and turn- over
intention may be more profound among employees with lower levels of organisational commitment and job
involvement. And the moderating
effect of organisational tenure may become negligible after organisational
commitment and job
involvement have been
controlled
for. Similarly, further
studies should be conducted
to examine
if occupational mobility and economic
insecurity mediate the moderating effect of age on the impact of job insecurity. For example, perceived occupational mobility and economic insecurity may predict the
negative association between job insecurity
and well-being that this
association is more
negative
among
employees
with
lower occupational mobility and higher economic insecurity. The moderating effect
of age may become negligible after occupational mobility and eco- nomic
insecurity are held constant.
Finally, echoing Sverke et al. (2002), we call for future
research focusing
on the following issues concerning with the effect of job insecurity. In this study,
we meta-analysed bivariate correlational data.
Correlational studies
can only reveal
association but not direction of causality. The claims
we have made on the “causal
relationship” between job insecurity and its job- related correlates and health-related correlates
are solely
based on past dis- cussion and research on job insecurity,
in which job insecurity
is typically considered as a stressor (Ashford et al., 1989; Probst, 2002;
Sverke et al.,
2002). More longitudinal research is called for investigating
the role of job insecurity
on
its
job-related correlates and health-related correlates (e.g. Heaney et al., 1994; Hellgren,
Sverke, & Isaksson,
1999).
The scope of our
study
was limited to which kinds of employees suffer more from and
react more
strongly to job insecurity. We did not examine how the relationship between job insecurity
and
its consequences varies across different types of measure (see
Sverke &
Hellgren, 2002).
Probst (2003; Borg &
Elizur, 1992) argued that
it is important to
distinguish cognitive (e.g. perceived likelihood of job loss) and affective (e.g. worry about
job
loss) measures of job insecurity. Furthermore, consistent
with Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt’s (1984) discussion,
Hellgren et
al. (1999;
Ashford et al., 1989) distinguished
quantitative (i.e. threat to the continuity
of the job itself) from qualitative
(i.e. threat to the continuity of important job features)
aspects of job insecurity. Future meta-analysis of job insecurity may focus on how the type of
measure, with reference to these two concep- tualisations of dimensions of job insecurity, influences the association
between job insecurity and its consequences. However, perhaps
more
pri- mary
studies reporting the effect size
of the relationship between qualitative aspects of job insecurity and its outcomes are needed before the proposed meta-analysis can be conducted.
Concluding Remarks
The present study confirms the negative impact of
job
insecurity on employees. More
importantly, it also reveals that
different types of employees
suffer from and react
to job insecurity in different
ways. Under the threat
of job loss, younger employees and employees with shorter
tenure
tend to have a stronger intention to
leave their
organisations.
Older employees and employees with longer tenure,
on the other hand, are more affected
in terms of their physical
and psychological health.
Organisations should take differ-
ent measures to help their employees to deal with job insecurity. Otherwise, both employees and organisations will suffer.
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