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Uzaktan çalışmanın iş güvencesizliğine etkisinde iş-yaşam dengesi ve psikolojik güvenliğin düzenleyici-aracılık rolü
The Moderated-Mediation Role of Work-Life Balance and Psychological Safety in the Effect of Remote Working on Job Insecurity

Author(s): Orkun Demirbag, Hale Cide Demir, Uğur Yozgat
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Labor relations, Organizational Psychology, Health and medicine and law, Financial Markets, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Comparative Law
Published by: Hitit Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Remote Working; New Normal; Work-Life Balance; Psychological Safety; Job Insecurity;

Summary/Abstract: Remote work, which was seen as a fashionable word in the pre-Covid-19 periods, has been the main focus of their lives as a flexible working arrangement, which has been introduced as the "new normal" that millions of employees had to pass overnight since March 2020, and employees must adapt quickly. People who work in the uncertain and chaotic environment created by the epidemic are faced with increasing levels of job insecurity, which indicates not only the loss of one's job but also the loss of various job characteristics that they want to protect with remote working arrangements. In this direction, event systems, boundary and conservation of resource theories constitute the theoretical background of the study. This study, based on the relevant theories, examines the moderating role of work-life balance and the mediating role of psychological security in the effect of remote work effectiveness on job insecurity. As a result of the survey study, 444 white-collar employees from the service and manufacturing sector have shown that they have psychological security mediating role in the relationship between remote work efficiency and job insecurity, and that the work-life balance has a moderator role on the relationship between remote work effectiveness and psychological security. Finally, the psychological security mediation model has also yielded meaningful results; The relationship between remote work effectiveness and job insecurity, mediated by psychological security, was found to be significant in the condition of work-life balance.

  • Issue Year: 14/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-25
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Turkish