Empirical Study Of Job Insecurity Of The Employees In SMEs

Job insecurity is a negative subjective feeling, which is based on employees'perception and evaluation of the existing work environment. To research on this issue, it could not only enrich the concents of human resource management, but also provide some useful reference. Under the economic crisis, the problem of job insecurity is serious in the private enterprises. So, this article researched this issue.Used small and medium private enterprises as an example, based on the related literature review, the open-ended questionnaire in this study surveyed 61 private enterprise employees and referring to the previous theories of job insecurity, we proposed the theoretical establishment of job insecurity in private enterprises and designed a formal scale of employees'job insecurity in the private enterprises. It was demonstrated that the formal scale had good reliability and validity. And then we conducted a survey of 244 employees in private enterprises to investigate the characteristics of job insecurity, the relationship between layoff and job insecurity. And by analyzing the 260 surveys of the total, we studied the regulatory role of coping styles between job insecurity and job involvement.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:(1) The job insecurity of private enterprise employees has a multidimensional structure, including six factors: insecurity of losing job, insecurity of working conditions, insecurity of salary and welfare, insecurity of interpersonal relationship, insecurity of career promotion, insecurity of finding a new work.(2)The job insecurity among employees in private enterprises has reached a high level. And there are evident differences in age.(3)There is a significant positive correlation between job insecurity and layoffs, and a significant negative correlation between job insecurity and the time layoffs occurred. There is also a correlation between job insecurity and the department where layoffs occur.(4)There is significant negative correlation between job involvement and job insecurity, which could evidently negatively predict the degree of job involvement. There is evident positive correlation between job involvement and positive coping style, which could evidently predict the degree of job involvement.(5)The positive coping style could play a significant regulatory role between job insecurity and job involvement. It could positively regulate the total score of job insecurity, and negatively regulate the insecurity score of finding a new work.In summary, from multiple perspectives, this study dicussed the status of job insecurity in private enterprises, and the relationship among job insecurity, layoffs, job involvement and coping style by multiple methods. In further studies the mechanism should be research on.