Correlates of job insecurity among recent business school graduates

Examines the relationship between perceived threats to job security, job insecurity, job satisfaction and intentions to quit among recent business school graduates. Most job insecurity research has considered longer tenured organizational employees. Anonymous questionnaires were completed by 217 respondents. LISREL analysis provided considerable support for the proposed research model. Perceived threats to job security had direct effects on insecurity and indirect effects on both job satisfaction and intent to quit through job insecurity.