Examining the relationship between employee-superior conflict and voluntary turnover in the workplace: A comparison of companies across industries.
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description: 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 their superiors has an impact on the level of turnover in an organization, and if manufacturing versus non-manufacturing industry type makes a difference. The generated data were based on 141 selected cases from the ethnographic cases in the Workplace Ethnography Project. Linear and logistic regressions were performed, finding that there is a significant relationship between conflict with superiors and the level of turnover.
abstract: 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 their superiors has an impact on the level of turnover in an organization, and if manufacturing versus non-manufacturing industry type makes a difference. The generated data were based on 141 selected cases from the ethnographic cases in the Workplace Ethnography Project. Linear and logistic regressions were performed, finding that there is a significant relationship between conflict with superiors and the level of turnover.
author: West, Lindsey Straka
language: English
keywords: employee, conflict, manufacturing industry, turnover, Labor turnover., Industrial relations., Psychology, Industrial.
identifier: oclc: 191747113
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metadc3904
date published: 2007-08
date modified: 2026-07-24T05:35:09Z
provider: University of North Texas
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of North Texas

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value: 10.12794/metadc3904