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Given the major organizational changes which have occurred over the last decade--including restructuring and mergers--and the effects of continuing market internationalization, job insecurity is a major problem for many organizations. And yet, there is surprisingly little research on how employees perceive such uncertainty or its impact on work attitudes and behavior. This volume draws together applied psychological research in four countries on the impact of job insecurity on individuals, industrial relations and organizations. It answers such questions as: What is it like to work where there is a pessimistic or uncertain future? What individual and collective behaviors occur as employees try to preserve their jobs? Does job insecurity create a more motivated workforce? What can be done about problems of morale and effectiveness caused by job insecurity? Through the development of theory, the presentation of research findings, and the discussion of policy implications, Job Insecurity examines this critical phenomenon. Well written and enlightening, this volume will be essential reading for practitioners, researchers and students of management, organization studies, organizational psychology, and industrial relations. 'This is a useful book, useful not only for its painstaking approach to its subject matter, but for its insistence that much current theorizing about developments at work owes more to assertion, speculation, even fashion than to soundly based knowledge. In a landscape littered with the abandoned shrines of yesterday's false gods it is now urgent that, as a discipline, we seek to replace the evangelist by the researcher. This is the contribution of this volume.' --Organizational Studies 'The implications brought out by this work are wide ranging and thought provoking. This book is a notable presentation of job insecurity as a social-psychological phenomenon where the individual's perceptions and attributions of causes, and his personal reactions are explored in detail. Perhaps one of the most significant contributions of this book is the collaborative study of researchers from different countries. As a result, the far-reaching and global interpretations proposed for the data are applicable in a multinational perspective. . . . All in all this is a significant book which can stimulate a lot of introspection and study.' --Management & Labour Studies 'Because of the relationship of job security and satisfaction to health the book is as relevant to health professionals as it is to employees, unions, management and governments.' --Journal of the Institute of Health Education
