Investigating the Effect of Perceived Job Insecurity on Turnover Intention

Abstract

Covid-19 has caused an unprecedented crisis in all industries, especially the hotel industry around the world. The purpose of this study is to investigating the effect of perceived job insecurity on hotel employee' turnover intention during the Covid-19 outbreak. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, data were collected from 370 employees of 4 and 5 star hotels in the city of Mashhad using the convenience method using a questionnaire. The present research, in terms of practical purpose, the method of collecting data is survey data and considering the relationship between variables, correlation with emphasis on structural equation modeling. The results of testing hypotheses using SPSS and Smart-PLS3 softwares indicate that perceived job insecurity has a positive effect on employees' turnover intention. At the same time, perceived job insecurity leads to reduced employee engagement and embeddedness with the job. Also, job engagement reduces employee turnover. Finally, the results showed that job embeddedness did not affect the turnover intention

Keywords

• job insecurity
• job engagement
• job embeddedness
• turnover intention
• covid-19
• hotel industry