Ricerc@Sapienza

This article explores the Anthropological and Ethnographic Approaches to Social Representations Theory (SRT) within a larger research project launched by de Rosa in 1994, aimed at investigating the state of the art of SRT in the social arena faced with social demand. For this contribution, a meta-theoretical analysis was conducted on 174 publications presenting findings of empirical studies and extracted from the So.Re.Com “A.S. de Rosa” @-library.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend knowledge about theoretical explanations of the job insecurity-performance relationship. Specifically, the authors examine how and why job insecurity is negatively associated with task and contextual performance (i.e. organizational citizenship behavior) and whether organizational identification may account for these relationships. Design/methodology/approach – The mediational hypotheses were examined using structural equation modeling in a heterogeneous sample of Italian employees.