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The effect of job insecurity on organizational trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the aviation sector

Vol. 16, No 3, 2023

Didem Rodoplu Şahin

 

Kocaeli University, 

Kocaeli, Turkey

E-mail: didem.rodoplu@kocaeli.edu.tr

ORCID 0000-0002-1779-8472

 

The effect of job insecurity on organizational trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the aviation sector

 

Mustafa Aslan

 

Bilgi Üniversitesi,

Istanbul, Turkey

E-mail: mustafa.aslan@bilgi.edu.tr

ORCID 0000-0001-8049-3615


Kübra Cingöz

 

Gaziantep University,

Gaziantep, Turkey

E-mail: kcingoz@gantep.edu.tr

ORCID 0000-0002-2919-8829


 

Abstract. Due to the novel COVID-19, millions of workers in the aviation industry have lost their jobs, and most of the remaining employees experience unemployment anxiety. This study aims to investigate the effects of job insecurity on both managerial and organizational trust and the mediating role of unemployment anxiety in hopes of improving employees’ well-being and promoting business continuity. In this cross-sectional study, the convenient sampling method was adopted. The research was conducted with the participation of aviation sector employees (n=210) of ground handling companies located in Turkiye. The Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was performed on the collected data for hypothesis testing. As per the results obtained from the study, quantitative job insecurity increases pessimism and adversely affects managerial trust and organizational trust (through managerial trust). Moreover, qualitative insecurity increases optimism, which adversely affects managerial trust. Managerial trust affects organizational trust positively. This study reveals that qualitative job insecurity led the employees to retain optimism but damaged both management and organizational trust during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quantitative job insecurity, on the other hand, caused pessimism and, as a result, affected managerial trust negatively. 

 

Received: November, 2022

1st Revision: July, 2023

Accepted: September, 2023

 

DOI: 10.14254/2071-789X.2023/16-3/9

JEL ClassificationM10, M12, M19

Keywords: unemployment anxiety, COVID-19, job insecurity, managerial trust, organizational trust