Employees who feel insecure about their job participate less in work-related learning. This is paradoxical given that work-related learning is advanced as a way to prepare for upcoming change. This may induce a cycle in which job insecurity leads to gradual more insecurity and less participation in work-related learning, yet this has not yet been probed in much detail. We study this cycle. In doing so, we account for different forms work-related learning, both formal and informal, and we focus upon felt insecurity about how the job might look like in the future, coined qualitative job insecurity: this has particular resonance in the public sector. Hypotheses were tested using a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model among 922 Flemish public sector employees Employees who experience higher qualitative job insecurity participate less in formal work-related learning and participation in formal learning decreases feelings of job insecurity. This aligns with the idea of cycles.

对工作感到不安全的员工较少参与与工作相关的学习。鉴于与工作相关的学习是为即将到来的变化做准备的一种方式，这是自相矛盾的。这可能会引发一个循环，在这个循环中，工作不安全感导致逐渐增加不安全感，减少对与工作相关的学习的参与，但尚未对此进行深入探讨。我们研究这个循环。在这样做时，我们考虑了正式和非正式的不同形式的与工作相关的学习，我们专注于对未来工作的样子感到不安全感，创造了定性工作不安全感：这在公共部门有特别的共鸣。假设在 922 名佛兰德公共部门员工中使用随机截距交叉滞后面板模型进行测试，工作不安全感较高的员工较少参与正式的工作相关学习，而正式学习的参与会降低工作不安全感。这与循环的想法一致。