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Organizations’ Use of Temporary Employment and a Climate of Job Insecurity among Belgian and Spanish Permanent WorkersKatholieke Universiteit Leuven
Open University of Catalonia and University of Valencia
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
University of Valencia
University of Valencia Extensive use of temporary employment may create a climate of job insecurity among permanent workers in a specific organization. This climate is likely conditional upon the proportion of temporary workers in the organization, and upon the reasons for hiring temporary workers. The percentage of temporary workers may relate to permanent workers’ shared perceptions of job insecurity. Employers’ motives for hiring temporary workers may relate to permanent workers’ perceptions of job insecurity when these motives threaten the position of permanent workers. Conversely, the relationship with a climate of job insecurity is likely negative when the organization hires temporary workers to support permanent workers. Analyses are based on samples of Belgian (N = 216) and Spanish (N = 404) permanent workers among 14 and 29 organizations, respectively. The results show a positive relationship between the percentage of temporary workers and a climate of job insecurity among permanent workers. Few motives were predictive for permanent workers’ climate of job insecurity. The findings are interpreted with reference to the specific Belgian and Spanish context.
Key Words: climate of job insecurity • permanent employment • temporary employment
Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 30, No. 4,
564-591 (2009) |
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