Job Insecurity:Iss 2 V8 Work: A Special Issue of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (Special Issues of the European Journal of Work and Organizat) - edizione con copertina flessibile

Taking into account the pervasiveness of downsizing, restructuring, and organizational changes in modern work organizations, and seeing the increasing significance of flexible work arrangements, it is surprising that not more research activity is directed to job insecurity. Of course, this is not to say that job insecurity is neglected as a research domain. Psychological researchers and practitioners do give attention to it, and this issue of the "European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology documents some of the progress made over the last decade. The contributions review the literature, discuss results from studies on the antecedents and consequences of job insecurity and summarize experiences with attempts to control and manage processes of organizational change and restructuring such that the aversive consequences of job insecurity are minimized. The empirical papers in this special issue investigate questions such as whether job insecurity only relates to the continuity of the jobor whether it includes continuity of important aspects of the job, the relative importance of job insecurity compared to other work stressors, the impact of job insecurity in comparison with unemployment, the impact of gender on feelings of job insecurity and the influence of job insecurity on psychological health. Other articles focus on practical aspects of job insecurity: how sophisticated management of employability and how elaborated job flexibility programs can reduce job insecurity, and how effective management strategies can prevent survivor syndromes from evolving after a period of high job insecurity.