Strategic Human Resource Management

Section One

FIGURE 1-1
Relationship Between Job Security and Effort

Source: Approximation of an inverted U relationship based on results reported by Joel
Brockner, Steven Grover, Thomas F. Reed, and Rocki Lee Dewitt. “Layoffs, Job
Insecurity, and Survivors’ Work Effort: Evidence of an Inverted-U Relationship,” Academy
of Management Journal 35, no. 2 (1992): 413–42. Reprinted by permission of Academy
of Management Journal.