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Jane E Ferrie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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from insecure to secure employment changes in work health health related behaviours and sickness absence
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2003Co-Authors: Marianna Virtanen, Mika Kivimaki, Marko Elovainio, Jussi Vahtera, Jane E FerrieAbstract:Aims: To determine whether change in employment status (from fixed term to permanent employment) is followed by changes in work, health, health related behaviours, and sickness absence. Methods: Prospective cohort study with four year follow up. Data from 4851 (710 male, 4141 female) hospital employees having a fixed term or permanent Job contract on entry to the study were collected at baseline and follow up. Results: At baseline, compared to permanent employees, fixed term employees reported lower levels of workload, Job Security, and Job satisfaction. They also reported greater work ability. All fixed term employees had a lower rate of medically certified sickness absence at baseline. Baseline rate ratios for those who remained fixed term were 0.64 (95% CI 0.55 to 0.75), and were 0.50 (95% CI 0.34 to 0.75) for those who later became permanent. Continuous fixed term employment was not associated with changes in the outcome measures. Change from fixed term to permanent employment was followed by an increase in Job Security, enduring Job satisfaction, and increased medically certified sickness absence (compared to permanent workers rate ratio 0.96 (95% CI 0.80 to 1.16)). Other indicators of work, health, and health related behaviours remained unchanged. Conclusion: Receiving a permanent Job contract after fixed term employment is associated with favourable changes in Job Security and Job satisfaction. The corresponding increase in sickness absence might be due to a reduction in presenteeism and the wearing off of health related selection.
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effects of chronic Job inSecurity and change in Job Security on self reported health minor psychiatric morbidity physiological measures and health related behaviours in british civil servants the whitehall ii study
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2002Co-Authors: Jane E Ferrie, M J Shipley, Stephen Stansfeld, Michael MarmotAbstract:Study objective: To determine the effect of chronic Job inSecurity and changes in Job Security on self reported health, minor psychiatric morbidity, physiological measures, and health related behaviours. Design: Self reported health, minor psychiatric morbidity, physiological measures, and health related behaviours were determined in 931 women and 2429 men who responded to a question on Job inSecurity in 1995/96 and again in 1997/99. Self reported health status, clinical screening measures, and health related behaviours for participants whose Job Security had changed or who remained insecure were compared with those whose Jobs had remained secure. Setting: Prospective cohort study, Whitehall II, all participants were white collar office workers in the British Civil Service on entry to the study. Main results: Self reported morbidity was higher among participants who lost Job Security. Among those who gained Job Security residual negative effects, particularly in the psychological sphere were observed. Those exposed to chronic Job inSecurity had the highest self reported morbidity. Changes in the physiological measures were limited to an increase in blood pressure among women who lost Job Security and a decrease in body mass index among women reporting chronic Job inSecurity. There were no significant differences between any of the groups for alcohol over the recommended limits or smoking. Conclusion: Loss of Job Security has adverse effects on self reported health and minor psychiatric morbidity, which are not completely reversed by removal of the threat and which tend to increase with chronic exposure to the stressor.
Carmen Pages - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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are all labor regulations equal assessing the effects of Job Security labor dispute and contract labor laws in india
2007Co-Authors: Ahmad Ahsan, Carmen PagesAbstract:This paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on different types of labor laws. It examines the effects of amendments to labor dispute laws and amendments to Job Security legislation. It also identifies the effects of legal amendments related to the most contentious regulation of all-Chapter Vb of the Industrial Disputes Act-which stipulates that firms with 100 or more employees cannot retrench workers without government authorization. The analysis finds that laws that increase Job Security or increase the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce registered sector employment and output but do not increase the labor share. Labor-intensive industries, such as textiles, are the hardest hit by laws that increase Job Security while capital-intensive industries are most affected by higher labor dispute resolution costs. The paper concludes that widespread and increasing use of contract labor may have brought some output and employment gains but did not make up for the adverse effects of Job Security and dispute resolution laws.
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the cost of Job Security regulation evidence from latin american labor markets
2000Co-Authors: Carmen Pages, James J HeckmanAbstract:This paper documents the high level of Job Security protection in Latin American labor markets and analyzes its impact on employment. We show that Job Security policies have substantial impact on the level and the distribution of employment in Latin America. They reduce employment and promote inequality. The institutional organization of the labor market affects both employment and inequality.
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the cost of Job Security regulation evidence from latin american labor markets
National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000Co-Authors: Carmen Pages, James J HeckmanAbstract:This paper documents the high level of Job Security protection in Latin American labor markets and analyzes its impacts on employment. The authors show that Job Security policies have a substantial impact on the level and the distribution of employment in Latin America. These policies reduce employment and promote inequality. The institutional organization of the labor market affects both employment and inequality.
Xiangquan Zeng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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social exchange and knowledge sharing among knowledge workers the moderating role of perceived Job Security
Management and Organization Review, 2009Co-Authors: Kathryn M Bartol, Wei Liu, Xiangquan ZengAbstract:Drawing on perceived organizational support (POS) theory and employee–organizational relationship theories, this research investigated the association between POS and knowledge sharing as well as the potential moderating effects of perceived Job Security. Study participants were 255 information technology professionals and their supervisors working in the information technology industry in China. Findings showed that POS was positively related to knowledge sharing, and, as expected, perceived Job Security moderated the association. More specifically, the positive association between POS and employee knowledge sharing held only for employees who perceived higher Job Security from their organization. In contrast, POS was not significantly associated with knowledge sharing when employees perceived their Job Security to be relatively low. This latter result is consistent with contentions from employee–organizational relationships theories that limited investment by employers is likely to lead to lower contributions from employees. The findings are also congruent with arguments from social exchange theory that meaningful reciprocity is built on a history of open-ended exchanges whose development may be inconsistent with a shorter-term employment horizon.
Debra L. Shapiro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Who Cares about Creative Contributions to Electronic Knowledge Sharing Databases? Effects of Top Management Openness, Affective Commitment, In-Role Behavior, Technological Adequacy and Job Security
2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010Co-Authors: Meredith V. Flowers, Garry G. Burnett, Debra L. ShapiroAbstract:Although the benefits of knowledge sharing have been widely recognized, organizations often encounter difficulties in making them happen. It is important to understand what influence employees contribute to knowledge sharing. Using survey responses from 173 employees of a large US university, we found that employees' creative contributions to an electronic knowledge sharing database (EKSDB) are directly influenced by their levels of affective commitment, perceptions of creative contributions as an in-role behavior, and perceptions of technological adequacy. Top management openness affects employee contribution indirectly through employee affective commitment and perception of creative contributions as an in-role behavior. In addition, the effects of employee affective commitment and perceptions of creative contribution as an in-role behavior on employee contribution are moderated by employee Job Security. By including intrinsic, extrinsic, and contextual variables, this model improves upon previous representations of factors leading employees' to make creative contributions to an EKSDB.
James L Perry - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Job Security Rule Changes and Employee Organizational Commitment
Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2019Co-Authors: Hyunkang Hur, James L PerryAbstract:This study assesses the impact of different Job Security rules on federal employees’ organizational commitment by looking at the effects of changes in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) prec...
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Job Security rule changes and employee organizational commitment
Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2019Co-Authors: James L PerryAbstract:This study assesses the impact of different Job Security rules on federal employees’ organizational commitment by looking at the effects of changes in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) precipitated by MaxHR, introduced to DHS in 2005. The 2005 Job Security rule changes, as part of the “reformed” personnel system of the new DHS, reduced employee Job Security, which in turn weakened organizational commitment. The study found subsequent repeal of the Job Security rules in 2007 boosted organizational commitment among DHS workers by as much as 10 percentage points. Taken together, the results of difference-in-differences (DID) analysis for the new Job Security rules in the period 2005-2006 and subsequent repeal of the Job Security rules in the period 2007-2010 suggest that employees’ commitment to DHS was more favorable after the repeal of the Job Security rules than prior to the 2005 reforms.
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the impact of Job Security rule change on u s federal employee organizational commitment
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014Co-Authors: James L PerryAbstract:This study estimates the impact of different Job Security rule change on federal civilian employees’ organizational commitment through looking recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s at-will employment system using difference-in- differences (DID) method. Result shows that overall effect of introduction of new Job Security rule in DHS is a decrease of approximately 6% in organizational commitment, which is a substantial, negative effect on the organizational commitment in the DHS. In addition, the results of this study also suggest that the modified and ended Job Security rule may have been boosted organizational commitment among DHS workers by as much as 6 to 12 percentage points. Taken together, the results of my difference in differences (DID) analysis for 2004 new Job Security rule, 2005 modified rule, and 2007 ended Job Security rule suggest that workers organizational commitment in DHS were more favorable after the modified or ended Job Security rule than what would have been the case, presen...
