Article: Job and career satisfaction in an austerity environment: the role of job security and passion towards work Journal: International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (IJSMM) 2017 Vol.17 No.1/2 pp.7 - 31 Abstract: This study investigates the role of passion in forming job and career satisfaction among employees in the sport industry using the dualistic model of passion developed by Vallerand et al. (2003). The research was conducted within a context of austerity measures and aimed to examine the mediating effects of job security in the relationship between passion and satisfaction at work. Employees within Greek municipal sport organisations completed a self-administered questionnaire (N = 170) in order to measure their level of passion towards their work (both harmonious and obsessive), their job and career satisfaction, and their perceptions of job security. Data were treated with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and multiple regression analyses using SPSS and Amos 21.0. The findings reveal that harmonious passion is significantly positively related to both job and career satisfaction, and that job security mediates these relationships. The research demonstrates the benefits of having harmoniously passionate employees, as well as the importance of strengthening or retaining feelings of job security under drastic socio-economic measures. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Job and career satisfaction in an austerity environment: the role of job security and passion towards work

Authors: Dimitra Papadimitriou; Mathieu Winand; Christos Anagnostopoulos

Addresses: Department of Business Management, University of Patras, PC 26504 Rio, Patras, Greece ' Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland, UK ' Faculty of Business Administration and Social Sciences, Molde University College, P.O. Box 2110, 6402, Molde, Norway

Abstract: This study investigates the role of passion in forming job and career satisfaction among employees in the sport industry using the dualistic model of passion developed by Vallerand et al. (2003). The research was conducted within a context of austerity measures and aimed to examine the mediating effects of job security in the relationship between passion and satisfaction at work. Employees within Greek municipal sport organisations completed a self-administered questionnaire (N = 170) in order to measure their level of passion towards their work (both harmonious and obsessive), their job and career satisfaction, and their perceptions of job security. Data were treated with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and multiple regression analyses using SPSS and Amos 21.0. The findings reveal that harmonious passion is significantly positively related to both job and career satisfaction, and that job security mediates these relationships. The research demonstrates the benefits of having harmoniously passionate employees, as well as the importance of strengthening or retaining feelings of job security under drastic socio-economic measures.

Keywords: passion at work; job satisfaction; career satisfaction; job security; municipal sport organisations.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSMM.2017.083980

International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 2017 Vol.17 No.1/2, pp.7 - 31

Received: 16 May 2016
Accepted: 22 Nov 2016
Published online: 30 Apr 2017 *

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