Job Security and Performance: Case Study of the Albanian Public Administration

Abstract

Job security in a simple language is defined as the knowledge that your job is permanent as long as you want to be. Defined in this way is understandable that job security involves the emotional part of the individual, and in the other hand is a real challenge for the organization for the consequences it may have. For that reason job security is treated as an important practice of human resources management and not like an isolated episode. Public organizations operate under several pressures, as politics, legal framework, group of interest. The main purpose of this paper is to present the main theoretical approaches related to job security and how it is perceived in influencing performance. Further, in a more practical level, other purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship of job security with performance seen in two levels; individual and organizational. To realize the goals of this paper are following two main ways. Initially he conducted a theoretical picture of attitudes to assess performance and its position in view of the performance of public administrator. Later in order to answer to key questions of research is designed and distributed a questionnaire on the Albanian public administration whose data are processed further. At the end of this work based on literature review and practical results are reflected some recommendations and conclusions.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2p19