Title: Feeling of insecurity in Khaki: its effects on burnout and allied consequences in Haryana Police officers

Authors: Anil Kumar; Sarang Narula

Addresses: Institute of Management Studies, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra-136119, India ' University School of Applied Management, Punjabi University, Patiala-147002, India

Abstract: The study aimed to assess feeling of insecurity at job, its association with burnout and the role of burnout in the relationships of feeling of insecurity with certain outcomes in Haryana Police officers. Adopting a cross-sectional design (sample size 1,223), the study observed feeling of insecurity at job in the officers; its positive association with burnout; burnout as a mediator in the relationships of feeling of insecurity with job satisfaction, commitment to the workplace, health, work-family conflict, and feeling to quit. The study identified burnout acting more like a suppressor variable in the relationships of feeling of insecurity with organisational citizenship behaviours, and physical aggression. The study found both feeling of insecurity and burnout as unrelated to verbal aggression. For the police administrators, study findings have key practical implications. The findings highlight feeling of insecurity and burnout as key venues to target with appropriate interventions for attenuating their adverse effects.

Keywords: burnout; feeling of insecurity; job satisfaction; commitment to the workplace; organisational citizenship behaviour; OCB; health; aggression; work-family conflict; WFC; feeling to quit; police officer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2020.109358

International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2020 Vol.21 No.1, pp.94 - 117

Received: 30 Jun 2019
Accepted: 05 Nov 2019

Published online: 03 Sep 2020 *

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