The Effects of Job Insecurity on the Organizational Commitment and the Moderating Role of Perceived Organizational Policy Supportin the Aviation Industry during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic was an unanticipated tragedy that caused chaos in all industries all over the world. Airline industry is one of the industries seriously impaired by this pandemic, so that employees’ job insecurity resulted from such global crisis becomes an important issue and worthy of investigation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore how job insecurity affected employees’ organizational commitment, and also explore a possible moderating effect of organizational support policy between job insecurity and organizational commitment under this pandemic period. This study adopted quantitative method and an online self-reported questionnaire was developed to collect the data. The valid respondents were 404 employees. Snowball and convenient sampling were used to recruit the participants of this study. The descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis were utilized using statistical software IBM SPSS 25.0 to analyze sample’s demographic information and test the proposed hypotheses. The findings reveal that job insecurity is positively associated with continuance commitment, but had a non-significant association with organizational commitment, affective commitment and normative commitment. In addition, there is no significant moderating effect of perceived organizational policy support on the relationship between job insecurity and three dimensions of organizational commitment, respectively. Furthermore, the finding shows that perceived organizational policy support significantly reduces job insecurity and increase organizational commitment of airline employees, suggesting the importance of organizational support policies under this pandemic period.Keywords: job insecurity, perceived organizational policy support, organizational commitment
The COVID-19 pandemic was an unanticipated tragedy that caused chaos in all industries all over the world. Airline industry is one of the industries seriously impaired by this pandemic, so that employees’ job insecurity resulted from such global crisis becomes an important issue and worthy of investigation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore how job insecurity affected employees’ organizational commitment, and also explore a possible moderating effect of organizational support policy between job insecurity and organizational commitment under this pandemic period. This study adopted quantitative method and an online self-reported questionnaire was developed to collect the data. The valid respondents were 404 employees. Snowball and convenient sampling were used to recruit the participants of this study. The descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis were utilized using statistical software IBM SPSS 25.0 to analyze sample’s demographic information and test the proposed hypotheses. The findings reveal that job insecurity is positively associated with continuance commitment, but had a non-significant association with organizational commitment, affective commitment and normative commitment. In addition, there is no significant moderating effect of perceived organizational policy support on the relationship between job insecurity and three dimensions of organizational commitment, respectively. Furthermore, the finding shows that perceived organizational policy support significantly reduces job insecurity and increase organizational commitment of airline employees, suggesting the importance of organizational support policies under this pandemic period.Keywords: job insecurity, perceived organizational policy support, organizational commitment
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