A Report on the Impact of Job Security on Employee Satisfaction in UK

This report investigates the impact of job security on employee satisfaction in the UK, utilizing discourse analysis to explore various factors influencing this relationship. The study defines job security and its impact on employee behavior and organizational success, highlighting the differences between public and private sectors. It analyzes the broader context, including the effects of Brexit and relevant UK employment laws. The methodology focuses on discourse analysis to uncover hidden factors and connections between job security and employee satisfaction, considering cultural and societal aspects. The findings reveal that while job security significantly influences employee decisions, other factors like economic conditions and opportunities for advancement are also crucial. The report assesses the extent to which the research question can be answered, emphasizing the importance of employee expectations and the overall impact on employee retention and organizational goals.

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Table of Contents
Research Question: What is the impact of job security on employees' satisfaction in UK? ..........3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
(a) Describe the text and justify it...............................................................................................3
(b) Explain the broader context of chosen text...........................................................................4
(c) Clarify the method of analysis that will be used along with justification.............................5
(d) Describe how the above method has been applied to the chosen text...................................5
(e) Present the findings................................................................................................................6
(f) Asses to what extent the research question can be answered with data/analysis...................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

Research Question: What is the impact of job insecurity on employees'
satisfaction in UK?
INTRODUCTION
Job insecurity is defined as a probability or assurance that an individual will move out his
or her job. It gets affected by number of factors such as current business conditions, personal
skills, dependency on economy and many more. Further, behaviour of the employer may change
level of security on feel in his job (Bullock, Stritch and Rainey, 2015). Generally, government
jobs offer high job security as compared to employment in private sector. The report covers
information on impact of job insecurity on employees' satisfaction and its related aspects.
MAIN BODY
(a) Describe the text and justify it
The text chosen in this report is “impact of job insecurity on employees' satisfaction in
the UK”. Manpower is a resource without which an organization can not achieve its objectives
and goals. Every entity should work towards providing an environment which is suitable to
majority of people working in an entity. However, an essential element called “job security”
should be top priority. This helps in retaining personnel who are talented and skilled to carry
work without incurring extra cost for searching for a new talent. It is directly related to
satisfaction that an individual get while being in the job. Higher the satisfaction, lower the
chances of unemployment. A person work hard to earn so that he can fulfil demands of his
family members. Level of satisfaction is measured through achievements one has in his life.
Similarly, job security is important for keeping an employee satisfied, however, there could be
number of other factors such as equal growth opportunities, equal pay and many more (De
Cuyper and Isaksson, 2017).
UK is one of the countries which employed largest number of employees after combining
all the sectors together. In the year 2018, it has been observed that the number of individuals
employed in public sector was above five million whereas, in private sector it was below five.
The prime reason is job security which is provided in high degree in public sector. However,
other factors should not be ignored which includes motivation to employees, fair and just
treatment, exploitation, better opportunities etc. Also, current market trends, work training,
absenteeism and similar aspects could be the reason which may impact satisfaction level of

manpower. These may leave them unsatisfied with current job or position in an organization.
Employer must make changes in work policies so as to fulfil expectation of employees with the
job and reach a level of security which is acceptable by all.
(b) Explain the broader context of chosen text
Job insecurity refers to the concept of confidence of an employee that he will loose his
current job he is employed to. It varies in different professions and sectors. It is connected to
their performance and affect it majorly. Every individual has their own definition and measure
degree of job security or insecurity. Thus, it can not be said that, level of job security is same for
everyone. Further, it affects the success of a company (Ghavifekr and Pillai, 2016).
UK is a considered as one of the dream states for getting jobs or doing business. The
reason is greater sponsors, avenues for investment, good infrastructure, huge number of
multinational companies etc. Along with this, the currency strong as compared to some of other
major countries such as Japan, China, India, Russia etc. The people living in UK has high
competition which force companies to make their employee work more and they are paid
comparatively less. This leave them unsatisfied with the job and forces to switch entities. This is
a huge concern as they do not feel stable financially.
UK has recently been hit by BREXIT, which has affected almost all the sectors. There
are high chances of increase in employment turnover. Hence, employees can be retained in this
and other situations if they are highly secured in their respective jobs. Furthermore, for
protecting them, UK government has also enacted laws such as Employment Act, 2002,
Employment Right Act, 1996, Equality Act, 2010, and many other legislations (Guest, 2017)
(Hipp and Givan, 2015). The legal provisions of such laws are implemented with many aims,
such as protection against unfair dismissal, harassment, etc. A company providing high job
security is given preference over other corporates by existing and prospective employees.
Furthermore, job insecurity causes high employment turnover as employees move out of the
company frequently. This vacant their positions for which entity has to look for new talent to
fulfil the vacancies. This results in high costs which could have been saved, had employees been
provided high job security. Hence, it makes difficult to manage the budget and focus on other
important things which hold more value.
Job satisfaction is an emotional response towards various elements of one's job. These are
governed by work, pay, promotions, supervisions and relationship with co-workers. There five

elements of job satisfaction model which put light on different reasons which is measured on the
basis of need fulfilment, discrepancy, value attainment, equity and dispositional components.
Each of these are co-related with job satisfaction.
(c) Clarify the method of analysis that will be used along with justification
The method which will be used is “discourse analysis”. Discourse analysis referred to
coding or analysis of language 'beyond the sentence'. This is basically concerned with
developing meaning of of a paragraph, conversation or even a single line. It is appropriate to
understand the underlying meaning of a context in order to have understanding of broader aspect
(Jessen, 2015).
The main reason for using this method is to unfold the areas or factors other than
employees' satisfaction which might get affected from job insecurity. The interconnection or
interlink between different reasons must be understood before reaching a conclusion. This
method will include the surroundings for getting better results. Further, assumptions that have
been formed primarily will also be added which will depict the actual data which can be relied
upon.
Further, cultural and societal factors are included in this analysis which can gives wider
picture of main how job security can affect employee's satisfaction. UK has huge number of
employees in all the sectors, and discourse analysis will help in taking out the truth behind
number of news articles, and other matters which has gained attention. Also, the language used
by public to private organizations may have different meaning which can be fathomed by
discourse analysis. In nutshell, the reactions and statements of employees are decoded which is
then matched with organizational statement to see how job security mould satisfaction of
employees and what could be other things in the economy that might affect it.
(d) Describe how the above method has been applied to the chosen text
Discourse analysis provides a wider content of the a particular language or the words
used in a sentence or piece of writing. It goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to
find hidden factors which may be left unattended, however, require equal attention and
importance (Lăzăroiu, 2015). UK has huge number of business organizations which include
different types of entities. It has been observed that, recession period forces organizations to
remove employees in order to save its costs so as to survive during that phase. However, this is
not the only reason for job satisfaction.

Discourse analysis has gone beyond the words “impact of job insecurity on employees'
satisfaction in UK”. Businesses operating in UK are major contributors to economy. Their proper
functioning is crucial to development and stability in economic conditions. This method has been
applied to assess wider context. Job insecurity is connected with psychological and physical
needs of an individual and must be fulfilled to take best out of them. This method was used to
determine per capital income, standard of living, disposition of income, bargaining power with
employer, output producing by each employee in regard to organizational goals. Along with this,
equation of personal life of a personnel is also included for the analysis (Lee, Back and Chan,
2015).
The above-mentioned elements are assessed to know the working and satisfaction of
employees on their performance, terms with their co-workers and employer, behaviour, attitudes
and so on. The analysis has given a result that shows that employees in public sector has
exceeded five million, on the other hand, in private sector it has reduced by a significant
difference.
Discourse analysis was used to reveal outcome that UK business organizations can get
from providing high job security. Furthermore, statements of key people about BREXIT,
financial and other crisis are reviewed in order to uncover what could be the possible impact of
job security on the whole UK.
(e) Present the findings
As per the above analysis, it has been found that job insecurity influence decisions of
employees to move out of the company. This scenario can be changed with job security.
However, it is not the only thing that matters, there are other things which hold equal value and
importance in influencing satisfaction of workforce. The chosen text present the real context of
UK economy which is affected by organizations. There were some difficulties in analysis due to
large categories of factors which had to be examined. Also, it was tough to extract real and
authentic information which would be form basis for whole analysis (McVicar, 2016).
However, it was ascertained that amount of work done with efficiency is related with
degree of satisfaction an employee is getting from the existing job position. Also, promotions
and monetary benefits are equally important for retaining the current employee. This saves
unnecessary costs which company has to spend on advertisements and interview for hiring new
employees due to more personnel moving out of the organization. In order to obtain close to

accurate results, external and internal environment together with policies framed by employer
should also be considered. Furthermore, extraction of documents and feedbacks of people
working in public and government sector was hard because of the confidentiality they have to
maintain.
The discourse analysis has presented an estimation of number of employees working in
public and private sectors which shows a comparison. This has clarified that entities in which
government is involved provides high level of satisfaction as they are responsible to work for the
benefits of UK people (Moniarou-Papaconstantinou and Triantafyllou, 2015). Furthermore, this
method has proved to be successful because of going beyond the literal meaning so as to find
underlying aspect which is vital for getting correct results.
Graph 1. Private sector number of employees in UK
as per 2018
(f) Asses to what extent the research question can be answered with data/analysis
The discourse analysis was used to capture all the factor which might have influence on
job insecurity which is directly connected to employee satisfaction. The above information states
that a candidate is attracted towards a company following legal provisions and its policies
accurately without committing any contravention (Mumford and Smith, 2015). Also, success of a

company depends upon work done by workforce and their perception towards the organizations.
Furthermore, there are other factors which are equally vital and impact satisfaction level such as
economic conditions, per capita income, promotions etc. However, it should be noted that every
employee has some expectations from his employer which much be fulfilled in order to retain
them (Pacheco and Webber, 2016).
Satisfaction has nexus with psychological needs which is prime in the list of a person
which he wishes to fulfil. This gives happiness and keep a person calm. Further, behaviour of
employer could also be one of the reason for fluctuations in degree of satisfaction. Also, every
individual has different views on how job security can have impact.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it has been concluded that job security is important to retain
employees and make them work in their best way. In case of insecurity, there will be high
employee turnover which put a hurdle on smooth functioning of an organization. Furthermore, a
person gives priority to such an organization who follow various applicable acts and understand
the expectations of their workforce. Also, it influence economic stability and helps an entity
stand out and outperform its competitors. This could be analysed through number of methods for
understanding factors which will keep individual continue their work without being unemployed
for a long time.

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