Purpose - Job insecurity exerts a significant impact on turnover intentions among employees. The association may be partly due to the influence of organizational support and the ethicality of leaders. However, there is a shortage of studies on the ameliorating role of organizational support and ethical leadership in the nexus between job insecurity and turnover intentions. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the nexus between job insecurity and turnover intentions among banking sector employees. The moderating role of organizational support and ethical leadership on the underlying relationship was assessed to achieve this. Design/methodology/approach – One hundred and sixty (160) banking sector employees were conveniently selected to participate in the study. The sample consisted of female (n = 92) and male (n = 68) employees, ranging from 23 to 49 years. Standardized measures were used in soliciting respondents' demographic characteristics, perceived job insecurity, ethical leadership, organizational support, and turnover intentions. Data were analyzed using regression analysis. Findings – Results revealed a significant positive correlation between perceived job insecurity and turnover intentions. Organizational support and ethical leadership also moderated the association between job insecurity and turnover intentions. The influence of job insecurity on turnover intentions minimizes when management provides the needed support and favorable climatic conditions. Originality/value – In general, the study highlights the importance of organizational support and ethical leadership in lessening the impact of job insecurity on turnover intentions.

The importance of hospitals and healthcare facilities as social infrastructure in communities cannot be overemphasized (Treasurer, 2015). These facilities undertake the role of surveillance and provision of patient care services in societies. Inevitably, healthcare facilities generate waste in the process of delivering their services. Waste from healthcare centers is a categorized type produced from models where medical officers and professionals provide treatment (WHO, 2018). Such models include hospitals, tattoo and ear-piercing centers, clinics, imaging and radiology centers; nursing homes, laboratories, dialysis and birth centers, medical and animal research centers, blood banks, ambulatory surgical centers, dispensaries, mortuary and autopsy centers, veterinaries etc.According to Cheng et al ( 2008) increase in number of hospitals and medical facilities as well as growth in population in developing countries like Ghana has resulted in increase in healthcare waste. A study conducted by Gilden, Scissors and Reuler (1992) confirms that the record of the recent increase in this waste also results from the budding use of disposable medical materials; hence the need for its management.Per the definition of World Health Organization (WHO, 2018), healthcare waste management involves putting in place measures that will ensure the safety of individuals and the environment from the adverse impacts of healthcare waste. The organization asserts that generally, 85% of this type of waste is composed of materials likened to domestic waste which are not hazardous. 15% may be infectious, genotoxic, radioactive or chemical, pharmaceutical or pathological, thus, hazardous. The nature of this waste puts individuals, especially doctors, patients, nurses, hospital visitors etc.at risks -injury and contraction of acute or chronic diseases as they come into direct or indirect contact with the waste (Mastorakis et al, 2010). Aljabre ( 2002) outlined the profile involved in effective hospital waste management. According to the researcher, the profile includes first of all, the proper collection of the waste right from the point of generation and its segregation (hazardous from non-hazardous, almost certainly by the use of color-coded containers). The means of storing healthcare waste in utility rooms is also a point of consideration in the process of management; the treatment of especially hazardous waste, its transportation and safe disposal are approved ways to mitigate and minimize risks involved in

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