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Socio-Economic Security, Justice and the Psychology of Social Relationships
Rosamund Stock, April 2001 This review was undertaken as part of the ILO InFocus Programme on Socio-Economic Security. The available research literature is overwhelmingly devoted to job security but a growing body of work has looked at the security of diverse job features and, more recently, issues of work intensification. Insecurity is seen as a subjective phenomenon to be distinguished from various aspects of employment stability. The empirical evidence makes it clear that insecurity in the workplace has serious negative consequences for personal health and well-being, and for the efficient and productive functioning of organizations. The same consequences are involved in layoffs, and fairness perceptions are important moderators of responses. Fairness also impinges on the same basic set of organizational variables as insecurity and both can be seen as threats to relationships in the workplace. Trust, too, is a significant moderator of responses, and there is sufficient overlap in the empirical studies to justify the conclusion that insecurity is an issue of fundamental importance to social justice. Click here for full document in PDF |
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Updated by LD. Approved by GS. Last update: 1 August 2001.