Technology usage, expected job sustainability, and perceived job insecurity
By Taewoo Nam. Technological forecasting & social change, 2019
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Abstract This study analyzes U.S.-based survey data from the Pew Research Center and explores the relationships between perceived job insecurity, technology usage, and long-term projection on the transition toward the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Keen attention to the upcoming predicted changes in job, work, and employment due to technological revolution, such as robotics and artificial intelligence, will help fill a gap in prior research that heavily emphasized organizational and psychological aspects of job insecurity. The findings show that employees' present perception of job insecurity is highly associated with technology usage and long-term perceptions of job and work. This article contributes to a new direction of job insecurity research (i.e., linkage of job insecurity as an organizational and psychological concept with attitudes about technology adoption and use) and proposes practical suggestions (e.g., a proactive approach to adapting to technology-driven changes in organizations) to prepare for the transition toward the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions
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Citations in the corpus
- Productive employment and decent work: The impact of AI adoption on psychological contracts, job engagement and employee trust (2020, unknown): “Nam (2019) examined technology usage, expected job sustainability and security with 2001 survey data in the U.S. and found that there is a significant relationship between technology usage and perceptions of job insecurity.”
- Internet of Things and Big Data as enablers for business digitalization strategies (2020, background): “Relevant studies (Nord et al., 2019) have mainly focused on IoT-related concepts while neglecting applications, opportunities and reviews of the literature; thus, there is a theoretical gap in terms of the technology ’ s adoption and use.”