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Development and empirical evaluation of a job insecurity and psychological well- being structural model
Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/127040 Development and empirical evaluation of a job insecurity and psychological well- being structural model Molenaar, Rebecca R. Gorgens, G. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Industrial Psychology. Work -- Psychological aspects Psychology, Industrial Industrial welfare Job security UCTD Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2023. ENGLISH SUMMARY: South African organisations are currently operating in a turbulent environment where complex organisational decisions must be made to keep organisations running. These decisions include large-scale employee retrenchments, which impact greatly on employees’ job security. Failure to acknowledge the current and future evidence of job insecurity in South Africa could result in substantial damage to employees’ psychological well-being. The main objective of this study was to develop and test a structural model that explicates how job insecurity influences psychological well-being of South African employees when accounting for certain moderating and mediating variables in the proposed psychological mechanism. These variables included job crafting, proactive personality and psychological capital. A non-experimental research design was used, and the convenience sample consisted of 150 employees from various organisations in various industries in South Africa. Partial Least Squares was used to analyse the model. The results from the analysis revealed that six of the twelve hypotheses in the structural model were statistically significant. The results revealed that job crafting, proactive personality and psychological capital have an influence on the job insecurity, psychological well-being process either as a direct, indirect or mediating effect. Moreover, job insecurity did not have a direct effect on psychological well-being. Proactive personality and psychological capital, when posited as moderators in the structural model, did not have a moderating effect in the job insecurity and psychological well-being process. Based on the results of the study, specific interventions to proactively address job insecurity to prevent negative psychological well-being among employees were suggested. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Suid-Afrikaanse organisasies funksioneer tans in ’n onstuimige omgewing waar hulle komplekse organisatoriese besluite moet neem om kop bo water te hou. Hierdie besluite sluit in grootskaalse personeelafleggings, wat ’n reuse-impak het op werknemers se werksekerheid. Versuim om ag te slaan op die bewyse van huidige en toekomstige werksekerheid in Suid-Afrika kan werknemers se sielkundige welstand aansienlik benadeel. Die hoofdoel van hierdie studie is om ’n strukturele model te ontwikkel en te toets wat verklaar hoe werksonsekerheid die sielkundige welstand van Suid-Afrikaanse werknemers beinvloed, met inagneming van sekere matigende en bemiddelende veranderlikes in die voorgestelde sielkundige meganisme. Hierdie veranderlikes sluit in die herontwerp van werk (“job crafting”), ’n proaktiewe persoonlikheid en sielkundige kapitaal. ’n Nie-eksperimentele navorsingsontwerp is gebruik, en die geriefsteekproef het uit 150 werknemers van organisasies in ’n aantal verskillende bedrywe in Suid-Afrika bestaan. Gedeeltelike kleinste kwadrate is gebruik om die model te ontleed. Die resultate van die ontleding bring aan die lig dat ses van die twaalf hipoteses in die strukturele model statisties beduidend is. Volgens die resultate het die herontwerp van werk, ’n proaktiewe persoonlikheid en sielkundige kapitaal ’n invloed op die werksonsekerheid- en sielkundigewelstandsproses, hetsy direk, indirek of bemiddelend. Werksonsekerheid blyk geen direkte uitwerking op sielkundige welstand te he nie. Wanneer ’n proaktiewe persoonlikheid en sielkundige kapitaal as matigende veranderlikes by die strukturele model ingevoer word, het dit nie ’n matigende uitwerking op die werksonsekerheid- en sielkundigewelstandsproses nie. Op grond van die studiebevindinge word bepaalde intervensies vir die proaktiewe hantering van werksonsekerheid voorgestel om probleme met sielkundige welstand onder werknemers te voorkom. Masters 2023-03-02T11:56:27Z 2023-05-18T07:01:23Z 2023-03-02T11:56:27Z 2023-05-18T07:01:23Z 2023-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/127040 en_ZA Stellenbosch University xi, 155 pages ; includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Work -- Psychological aspects Psychology, Industrial Industrial welfare Job security UCTD Molenaar, Rebecca R. Development and empirical evaluation of a job insecurity and psychological well- being structural model |
| title | Development and empirical evaluation of a job insecurity and psychological well- being structural model |
| title_full | Development and empirical evaluation of a job insecurity and psychological well- being structural model |
| title_fullStr | Development and empirical evaluation of a job insecurity and psychological well- being structural model |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development and empirical evaluation of a job insecurity and psychological well- being structural model |
| title_short | Development and empirical evaluation of a job insecurity and psychological well- being structural model |
| title_sort | development and empirical evaluation of a job insecurity and psychological well being structural model |
| topic | Work -- Psychological aspects Psychology, Industrial Industrial welfare Job security UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/127040 |
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