Job Insecurity: A Review Of Measurement, Consequences And Implications  

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Blyton, Paul ; Bacon, Nicolas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Human Relations vol. 54 no. 9 (Sep. 2001), page 1223-1233.
Fulltext: 1223.pdf (79.68KB)

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A recurring theme in the study of workplace change and employee attitudes is the degree to which contemporary workers feel less secure in their jobs than their counterparts did during the four decades following the Second World War. Several texts have been written (see for example, Cappelli et al., 1997; Rifkin, 1996) arguing that the contemporary workplace no longer offers employees job security and that competitive pressures, volatile markets, more demanding shareholders, weaker trade unions, changing skill requirements, technological advances and the like, have combined to bring the ‘jobs for life’ era to an end. A defining feature of this new reality of diminished job security is seen to be the redundancy announcements that are no longer linked to economic downturn but are equally likely to occur in times of prosperity, as companies use the cushion of current profit levels to ‘restructure’ – a process of adjustment that frequently involves not only large-scale job losses but also the simultaneous hiring of new staff on less permanent contracts. This thesis – that a prolonged period of widespread permanent, full-time employment is over, and is being progressively replaced by shorterterm employment relationships – is argued both by Richard Sennett in The corrosion of character and by Peter Cappelli in The new deal at work. For both, the trend is pervasive with the result that ‘uncertainty . . . is woven into the everyday practices of a vigorous capitalism’ (Sennett, p. 31).

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