ABSTRACT

This study investigates whether job insecurity is related to employee learning (i.e. the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies/characteristics; KSAOs) and whether occupational self-efficacy functions as a mediating mechanism in this relationship. We used three-wave longitudinal data, with a time lag of six months, collected among Flemish employees (N = 1708), and employed a latent growth curve modelling approach. The results provide support for a dynamic relationship between job insecurity and employee learning. More specifically, changes in employees’ levels (i.e. the slope) of job insecurity were related to changes in occupational self-efficacy. Changes in self-efficacy, in turn, were related to changes in levels of newly acquired KSAOs, in such a way that occupational self-efficacy operated as a mediator between job insecurity and newly acquired KSAOs. These results contribute to the understanding of the relationship between job insecurity and work-related learning, and to the general understanding of the mechanisms linking job insecurity to outcomes.

摘要

本研究调查了工作不安全感是否与员工学习（即知识、技能和能力/特征的获得；KSAOs）有关，以及职业自我效能感是否在这种关系中起到中介机制的作用。我们使用了在 Flemish 员工（N = 1708），并采用潜在增长曲线建模方法。结果为工作不安全感和员工学习之间的动态关系提供了支持。更具体地说，员工工作不安全感水平（即斜率）的变化与职业自我效能感的变化有关。反过来，自我效能的变化与新获得的 KSAO 水平的变化有关，因此职业自我效能在工作不安全感和新获得的 KSAO 之间起到了中介作用。这些结果有助于理解工作不安全感和与工作相关的学习之间的关系，并有助于对工作不安全感与结果联系起来的机制的一般理解。