Does The Perception of Job Insecurity Bring Emotional Exhaustion? The Relationship between Job Insecurity, Affective Commitment and Emotional Exhaustion

This studyexamines the effect of job insecurity on the level of emotionalexhaustion and the role of affective commitment level on this influence. The survey (wasconducted on 136 employees of a company operating in the manufacturing sector. Datawere collected by questionnaire technique. In the process of analyzing the data was usedSPSS and AMOS packaging programs.Structural equation modeling analysis was usedto test the hypotheses developed in the research. The findings of the analysis showedthat job insecurity effects affective commitment in the negative direction and emotionalexhaustion in the positive direction. In addition, it has been determined that affectivecommitment plays a partial mediating role on the effect of job insecurity on emotionalexhaustion. In other words; job insecurity affectsemotional exhaustion both directly andthrough affective commitment. The findings in the research are thought to contributeto both the literature and the business managers.