Effect of Job Insecurity on Willingness to Undertake Training in Jakarta, Indonesia: The Moderating Role of Perceived Organizational Support

Abstract

noneThe economic recession that happens because of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in several challenges for the organization and the employees. The case of layoff increased and lead the employees to feel insecure, especially in Indonesia. This situation encourages the government and organizations to provide training to improve the worker's skills and knowledge. However, all of those opportunities will not be useful without employee willingness to undertake training. This study would investigate the relationships between both dimensions (qualitative and quantitative) of job insecurity and employee willingness to undertake training. Perceived organizational support also investigated whether it could moderate the effect of job insecurity on willingness to undertake training. The samples of this study included 293 employees in Jakarta, Indonesia. This study adopted a quantitative research design and online-based questionnaires to collect the data and test the research hypotheses. SPSS 23 used to analyze the hypotheses results. The findings show that qualitative job insecurity negatively influenced willingness to undertake training for strengthening employee position within the organization, however not for strengthening employee position outside of the organization, and perceived organizational support could not moderate the relationship between job insecurity and willingness to undertake training. The researcher would discuss the rest of the results and their implication for human resources management and development.