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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"voluntary turnover"”.
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Job embeddedness versus traditional models of voluntary turnover: A test of voluntary turnover prediction.
Voluntary turnover has historically been a problem for today's organizations. Traditional models of turnover continue to be utilized in a number of ways in both academia and industry. A newer model of turnover, job embeddedness, has recently been developed in an attempt to better predict voluntary …
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Predicting employee voluntary turnover using human resources data
… attempted to answer the following question: Can voluntary employee turnover be predicted? The study made use of regression analyses to examine the relationship between employee turnover and a range of worker demographics. Data covering 2 592 employees in a South African general insurer formed the …
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Understanding voluntary turnover from an intentional change theory perspective
… two predictors were hypothesized to predict turnover intentions and organizational commitment over and above the effect of key covariates. Perceived barriers to learning and development was also expected to moderate these relationships. Results supported these hypotheses, from analyses of …
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Job Embeddedness as a Predictor of Voluntary Turnover: Validation of a New Instrument
Voluntary turnover has become a problem for many organizations in today's society. The cost of this turnover reaches beyond organizational impact, but also affects the employees themselves. For this reason, there has been a plethora of research conducted by both academicians and practitioners on …
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Dispositional Differences in Frequencies of and Reasons for Voluntary Turnover: A Latent-Class Approach
… differences in two distinct aspects of voluntary turnover decisions that have been neglected in the literature: frequencies of past quitting and reasons for quitting versus staying. While most turnover research in the past has focused on the phenomenon of voluntary turnover from …
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Examining the relationship between employee-superior conflict and voluntary turnover in the workplace: A comparison of companies across industries.
Employee turnover is a topic of concern for a multitude of organizations. A variety of work-related factors play into why an individual chooses to change jobs, but these are often symptoms of underlying issues, such as conflict. This study set out to determine if conflict between employees and …
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Stressful Work and Turnover: The Mediating Role of Psychological Strain
The subject of employee turnover continues to attract global research attention (Hom, Mitchell, Lee, & Griffeth, 2012). The job demands-control-support model (JDC(S); Karasek & Theorell, 1990) is a conceptual model that can be used to examine the stress-strain-turnover process. To date, however, …
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Moving Engagement Research To A Higher Level: The Impact Of Unit-Level Engagement On Business Metric Outcomes
… unit engagement and business metric outcomes (voluntary turnover, operating costs, and earnings). Results of the current study offer support for the three-factor model of engagement (vigor, dedication, and absorption), as well as the discriminant validity of engagement from other job attitude …
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The Straw that Breaks the Camel's Back: Do Shocks Moderate the Relationship between Attitudinal Variables and Turnover?
… by Lee and Mitchell (1994)’s unfolding model of voluntary turnover. The unfolding model introduces a novel construct to the turnover literature known as a “shock to the system”. Shocks are theorized to be distinguishable events that lead individuals to re-evaluate their current condition within …
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Essays On CEO Turnover, Succession, And Compensation
This dissertation is a series of study on CEO turnover, succession, and compensation, which consists of three essays. In essay 1, I investigate how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) affects CEO tenure and the characteristics of CEO turnover. I do not find a significant relation between financial …
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Transforming Self and Systems through Implementation of a Caring Coach Leader Program
… The stressful demands of this role have caused turnover rates to soar above the national average on some of the inpatient hospital units. Instability of nursing management oversight negatively effects staff job satisfaction and delivery of high quality safe patient care. In reviewing the …
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Career Public-Sector Employee Attitudes About Political Appointments: A Study of the U.S. Department of State
… with decreased agency performance and higher voluntary turnover at the career senior ranks. However, less attention has been dedicated to the effects of such appointments on the attitudes of the civil service workforce, factors which has been shown to influence organizational performance. …
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Turnover Intentions and Turnover: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Affectivity
Turnover is a costly problem for organizations, with severe consequences for individuals (Hom & Griffeth, 1995). Because turnover intentions are the best predictor of turnover (Griffeth, Hom, & Gaertner, 2000), our ability to explain and predict individual voluntary turnover decisions depends upon …
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Perceived organisational support, organisational commitment and turnover intentions amongst employees in a selected company in the aviation industry
A large body of research on staff turnover report that intention to leave the organisation is one of the key predictor’s to staff turnover (Chen & Francesco, 2003; Steel & Lounsbury, 2009). Researchers agree that when organisational commitment is high amongst staff the result is low turnover …
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Staff Turnover in Juvenile Corrections: Predicting Intentions to Leave
… correctional facilities. Unfortunately, staff turnover is much more common in correctional agencies than other areas of government work. Although several studies have looked at rates and predictors of employee turnover in adult correctional facilities, few have assessed the issue among juvenile …
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Description of Job Embeddedness in Arkansas County Extension Agents
… needs go unmet, which was proposed to increase voluntary turnover among CEAs even further. Arkansas CES has had its problems with turnover, and studying this issue through the lens of Job Embeddedness Theory was identified as a gap in the literature. </p> <p>Job Embeddedness Theory is a …
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The impact of high performance work systems in Irish companies: an examination of company and employee outcomes
… of HPWS usage on innovation, productivity and turnover. The study uses data collected from 132 companies in Ireland who participated in a general manager (GM) and human resource (HR) manager survey conducted in 2006. This study shows that an extensive application of HPWS is associated with an …
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EXPOSURE TO DOWNSIZING: A LONGITUDINAL EXAMINATION OF CHANGE IN COLLECTIVE TRUST
… variables such as the severity of downsizing, voluntary turnover, and CEO pay moderate the relationship between downsizing and collective trust by magnifying the negative relationship between downsizing and collective trust. We also found that CEO tenure moderates the relationship between …
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Employee retention in the Federal Government : a case study of the United States Postal Service
… Specifically, this thesis focuses on the voluntary turnover of top performing talent. Regardless of one's beliefs regarding the size the Federal Government or what role it should play, it is hard to debate the need to employ talented, productive, and innovative leaders within the …
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Modelling Intention to Stay and Actual Voluntary Exit Using Employee Survey Information: An Investigation of Statistcal and Practical Significance to Human Resources Planning in the Royal New Zealand Navy
… valid models of Intention to Stay and Actual Voluntary Exit can be produced using survey information collected through the OAtS; and second, to review the practical significance of these statistical models and their potential contribution to RNZN human resource planning. Analyses supporting …
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