Does Job Insecurity Lead To Turnover Intention Or Work Engagement?Internal And External Individual Career Management As Dual Mediation Mechanisms

In the era of intelligence and epidemic normalization,the problem of employees’ job insecurity is prominent and has attracted widespread attention from both academic and practical circles.However,most of the existing literature focuses on the negative effects of job insecurity,and few studies have been able to dialectically explore the effects of job insecurity on employees from both negative and positive perspectives.Based on the transactional theory of stress,this study examines the impact of job insecurity on employees’work engagement and turnover intention,and tests the mediating effects of individual career management(both internal and external)and the moderating effects of career resilience.In this paper,294 valid questionnaires were collected from employees of companies in the financial services,information technology,and retail industries,and a series of empirical studies found that:(1)Job insecurity has a positive effect on work engagement,but job insecurity has no significant effect on turnover intention;(2)Employee internal individual career management mediates the relationship between job insecurity and work engagement,and employee external individual career mediates the relationship between job insecurity and turnover intention(using the method of examining the mediating mechanism based on the insignificant main effect.i.e.,there is a suppressing effect);(3)Career resilience negatively moderated the positive effect of job insecurity on internal individual career management,and career resilience positively moderated the positive effect of job insecurity on external individual career management;Furthermore,career resilience moderated the mediating role of external individual career management in the relationship between job insecurity and turnover intention.The core contribution of this paper is that the study takes into account both negative and positive aspects of job insecurity and reveals the intrinsic relationship between job insecurity and employees’ work engagement and turnover intention through the dual mediation mechanism of internal and external individual career management,which provides theoretical reference for companies and employees when facing job insecurity.