Employees in the government sector are less confident about finding a job as compared to their peers in other sectors but are less fearful about a job loss, a survey said.
"Employees in the government sector are far less confident about finding a job compared to their peers in other sectors as suggested by their scores of 59 per cent and 85 per cent, respectively," a Ma Foi Randstad Work Monitor survey, said.
Government employees are, however, less fearful about a job loss (only 13 per cent) as compared to their peers in other sectors which the survey said "emphasises the socialistic orientation in the government sector vis-à-vis other sectors."
The survey also found that employees in Mumbai fear less about a job loss as compared to those in Chennai, Delhi and Bangalore.
A high percentage of employees in Mumbai and Chennai (84 per cent each) are more satisfied with their employers than their peers in Delhi (66 per cent) and Bangalore (74 per cent), the survey said.
A significant finding of the survey is that amongst professionals in the middle management, there is relatively higher stability.
Employees at the junior management (19 per cent) and senior management (18 per cent) are more anxious about loss of jobs compared to those in the middle management (9 per cent), the survey said.
Over 90 per cent of employees at junior level are extremely keen on a role change/promotion, the survey said. "This could be an important retention tool for organisations; however, role/job re-design that is balanced with the needs of the organisation will be important," the survey said.
The reason for changing a job amongst senior management employees evoked a mixed response, the survey said. "This includes their personal ambition to work in a topical area as well as a personal ambition to play a management role," it said.
"This implies two distinct sets of employees--one set of employees who are keen to play a leadership role in well-established stable businesses and another set of employees who perhaps are keen to play a leadership role in emerging businesses," the survey said.
For junior management employees, the primary reason for job change is driven by improving employment conditions followed by a personal desire for change, it said.
