The Straw that Breaks the Camel's Back: Do Shocks Moderate the Relationship between Attitudinal Variables and Turnover?

The current study was designed to test the relatively new conceptualization provided 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 their organization. The Turnover Events Shocks Scale (TESS) is a measure of negative workplace events. It was hypothesized that such events will moderate the relationship between satisfaction and turnover as well as commitment and turnover, such that the negative relationships will be stronger when an event(s) is present. Results partially support the hypotheses with shocks serving as a marginally significant moderator to satisfaction-turnover relationship. However, nonsignificant results were revealed for organizational commitment.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Arts and Sciences)

Grantor dc:publisher

Ohio University

Year dc:date

2012

Author dc:creator

• Tenbrink, Allison N.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Griffeth, Rodger

• Psychology
• employee turnover
• job satisfaction

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
• This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1354136778

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:ohiou1354136778