The ideological roots of job insecurity: Exploring the link between corporate ideology and perceived job insecurity among French workers

This study attempts to learn whether there is a link between a company’s ideology and perceived job insecurity drawing on Irene Goll and Gerald Zeitz’s typology of corporate ideology, which consists of progressive decision-making, social responsibility, and participative consensus-seeking decision-making with feedback. The study uses linked employer–employee data from the 2016–2017 REPONSE survey, which includes about 4364 privately-owned firms in France employing individuals with at least 15 months’ tenure. After accounting for individual and workplace-level characteristics using logit models, we found that employees in organizations that embrace progressive and socially responsible ideologies perceive lower levels of job insecurity. This emphasizes the importance of ideological dimensions in informing job insecurity and goes beyond traditional institutional and structural explanations offered by existing literature.