The moderating role of employability in the association between job insecurity and exit, voice, loyalty and neglect

Erik Berntson, Katharina Näswall and Magnus Sverke
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Erik Berntson: Stockholm University, Sweden, erik.berntson@psychology.su.se
Katharina Näswall: Stockholm University, Sweden
Magnus Sverke: Stockholm University, Sweden and North-West University, South Africa

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2010, vol. 31, issue 2, 215-230

Abstract: Exit, voice, loyalty, or neglect as employee responses to organizations in decline have been investigated in several studies. The aim of the present study is to investigate whether employability moderates the effects of job insecurity on exit, voice, loyalty and neglect. The results, based on questionnaire data from white-collar workers in Sweden ( N = 725), indicate that individuals who are high in employability may have greater opportunities for gaining control over their working life. Job insecurity was found to be associated with increased exit as well as with decreased voice and loyalty, although these effects were stronger among individuals who perceived themselves to be employable. Thus, instead of making employees more likely to use voice in times of uncertainty, employability appears to primarily induce vocational mobility.

Keywords: employability; exit; job insecurity; loyalty; moderator; neglect; voice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X09358374

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