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Acknowledgements: The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Christopher Rosen and the 
anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback throughout the review process. We also thank 
Dr. Dustin Jundt for his comments on an earlier version of the paper. This research was 
supported by an internal grant from University of Central Florida’s Office of Faculty Excellence 
awarded to Dr. Mindy Shoss.
Supplemental material for this article is available at http://xxx.sagepub.com/supplemental. 
Corresponding Author: Mindy K. Shoss, Department of Psychology, University of Central 
Florida, PO Box 161390, Orlando, FL 32816-1390, USA 

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ABSTRACT 
The question of how job insecurity impacts workplace behaviors has been the source of debate in 
the academic literature as well as in the popular press. The current study leverages and expands 
Conservation of Resource Theory’s ideas about resource investment to examine how and when 
job insecurity is associated with behaviors indicative of promotive or protective job preservation 
strategies aimed at social or task targets. We present two studies. The first study takes a 
longitudinal approach to examine the bidirectional relationships between job insecurity and job 
performance, counterproductive work behaviors, knowledge hiding, and self-presentation 
ingratiatory behavior. The second study examines job preservation motivation as a mechanism 
linking job insecurity to these work behaviors, and considers specific elements of threats as 
moderators (i.e., perceived threat controllability, perceived threat proximity). Together these 
studies suggest that job insecurity is associated with strategic behavior when employees are 
facing proximal threats to their jobs; however, these efforts are rarely in the best interest of 
organizations. 
Keywords: job insecurity; job preservation; job performance; counterproductive work behavior; 
knowledge hiding; self-presentation ingratiatory behavior 

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