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 Volume 7, Issue 11 (November 2020), Pages: 51-57

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: The impact of the sense of security in young employees on job satisfaction during COVID-19 pandemic

 Author(s): Hanan Gouda *

 Affiliation(s):

 The Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5618-1686

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2020.11.005

 Abstract:

This study seeks to contribute to positive organizational behavior by investigating the sense of security among academic staff and faculty in Egyptian universities in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting their overall attitude towards the organization and job satisfaction. According to the literature, this study hypothesized that there is a relationship between security importance, attitude, and job satisfaction. Thus, a quantitative approach was used to test this assumption. 384 questionnaires were collected and analyzed for this study. The SPSS program version 22 was used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. According to the results, academic staff and faculty were satisfied in their jobs because they believed the university was prepared for any crisis that can take place, including the COVID-19 outbreak. They indicated that if they do not feel secure in their jobs, they would not appreciate their work environment, leading to negative attitudes. When asked what to do in a crisis, they were unaware of procedures. This study offers practical and academic contributions. The empirical evidence adds to the body of literature supporting the relationship between crisis and a sense of security influencing job satisfaction. In addition, this study contributes practically by pointing out the obligation of having crisis management practice in higher education in light of pandemic outbreaks. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Crisis management, Job satisfaction, Security sense, Education, COVID-19

 Article History: Received 30 March 2020, Received in revised form 28 June 2020, Accepted 29 June 2020

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 Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Gouda H (2020). The impact of the sense of security in young employees on job satisfaction during COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 7(11): 51-57

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