Title: Does job insecurity keep employees from the organisation?

Authors: Öyküm Karçıka; Serdar Bozkurt; Ayşe Demirhan

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey ' Department of Business Administration, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey ' Department of Business Administration, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract: Along with the global economic imbalances, the rising trend of unemployment rates and the deterioration of working conditions cause employees to experience fear regarding potential job loss at any given time. The behavioural consequences of this situation, job insecurity (JI), which can harm organisations, remain essential in today's business world and organisational behaviour literature. In this direction, it is intended to test the role of work-family conflict (WFC) in the relationship between employees' perceptions of JI and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) based on social exchange and diffusion theories. Data obtained from 251 participants working in the private sector were analysed using the partial least squares (PLS) program. Because of the research, it was seen that WFC partially mediates the relationship between JI and OCB.

Keywords: job insecurity; organisational citizenship behaviour; OCB; work-family conflict; WFC; social exchange theory; SET.

DOI: 10.1504/MEJM.2025.144785

Middle East Journal of Management, 2025 Vol.12 No.2, pp.198 - 215

Received: 04 Aug 2023
Accepted: 01 Nov 2023
Published online: 03 Mar 2025 *

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