The Impact of Job Insecurity on Non-Traditional Outcomes

Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce a forthcoming Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Impact Factor: 2.145) entitled, “The Impact of Job Insecurity on Non-Traditional Outcomes.” As meta-analytic reviews clearly document, the vast majority of research on job insecurity has focused on a relatively narrow set of outcomes, including job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover intentions, burnout, and physical/mental health. Far less attention has been paid to equally important outcomes such as: work-family conflict, life satisfaction, safety, absenteeism or presenteeism, actual turnover, counterproductive work behaviors, job performance, creativity, and more.  

The purpose of this Special Issue is to offer researchers an opportunity to publish high-quality cutting-edge job insecurity research on these (and other) non-traditional outcomes to better understand the myriad effects that job insecurity may have on under-studied work- and non-work outcomes. We are particularly interested in:

• Studies that examine novel non-traditional outcomes of job insecurity
• Research that tests theoretical mechanisms explaining the relationships between job insecurity and non-traditional outcomes (i.e., mediators), as well as variables that may serve as boundary conditions for these relationships (i.e., moderators)
• Cross-cultural research testing whether and how the effects of job insecurity may differ across cultural settings
• Multi-level research demonstrating individual-, group-, organizational-, and/or country-level impacts on non-traditional job insecurity outcomes.
• Studies that test interventions to alleviate the impact of job insecurity on non-traditional outcomes.

All manuscripts will be peer reviewed by experts in the field, and would be due by 31 March 2019. Pre-submissions inquiries are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Tahira M. Probst
Guest Editor

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