The Relationship Between Job Security and Employee Health

The relationship between perceived job security and employee health was examined in two manufacturing organizations. A significant relationship was found between health and job security using global measures of both constructs. Closer examination of the correlations among the subscales of the measures of health and perceived job security revealed different patterns of subscale relationships in two organizations. These results suggest that job security is an important determinant of employee health, and that inclusion of this construct in general models of stress and well-being may help to improve our understanding of work performance.