Impact Of Covid-19 Induced Job Insecurity On Psychological Wellbeing Of Tourism And Hospitality Sector Employees In India

Abstract

Present study assesses the status of the covid-19 induced job insecurity, psychological wellbeing and their correlation in case of tourism and hospitality sector employees of India. Data for the study was collected from 497 respondent employees of tourism and hospitality sector undertakings. The findings indicated that Covid-19 has enhanced the feeling of job insecurity amongst study population as well has resulted in decreased well-being of employees and there exist a negative correlation between the two i.e. increased job insecurity due to covid-19 results in diminished psychological wellbeing of employees. COVID-19 undoubtedly is most devastating and disruptive phenomenon of recent times. Severe lockdowns were imposed by various governments with India being no exception, has drastically impacted almost all the industries including tourism and hospitality. While there have been studies on the nature and possible impacts of this disease, possibility of vaccine, economic effects of this pandemic, the psychological wellbeing of employees’ remained an ignored area. More so, tourism and hospitality sector being worst hit by this pandemic, employee of these sectors faced the most severe burnt of this pandemic. To fill this research gap concerning the impacts of Covid-19 induced job insecurity on employees psychological wellbeing with special reference to tourism and hospitality sector employees, present study has been undertaken. This study attempts to assess the feeling job insecurity due to COVID-19 as well as tries to correlates the same with psychological wellbeing of employees.