This study examined the role of people’s changing work roles and choice of work position for job satisfaction, turnover intention and general health after organizational change. Participants were 131 government agency managers undergoing a change of the management structure whereupon manager positions were cut down and everyone had to re-apply for the positions they wanted. Questionnaire data was collected before the organizational change and afterwards, when 43 of the participants were no longer managers. Four groups were formed from a combination of getting first choice of position or not and transferring down or not. A repeated measures ANOVA showed that the combination of not getting first choice of position and downward transfer resulted in significantly larger decrease in job satisfaction, larger increase in turnover intention and bigger decrease in general health than all other combinations. Practical implications for human resources management are discussed.

This investigation uses the model proposed by Ferris et al.¡]1989¡^to study the relationships among the perceptions of organizational politics with job satisfaction, job stress, job involvement, work performance, turnover intention, organization citizenship behavior, organizational commitment. Understanding and perceived of control as moderators to influence perceptions of organizational politics & outcome variables were examined. The sample consisted of 2559 employees selected from 35 diverse organizations. The data were analyzed by applying statistical methods, including factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation, regression and hierarchical regression analysis. The major results of this study are as follows. The perceptions of organizational politics have been reduced to three factors--general political behavior, going along to get ahead and the difference of policies & practices. Behavior of general politics were found have negative relationship with work performance and job involvement and positive relationship with job stress. The difference of policies & practice were found have negative relationship with job satisfaction, job involvement, organization citizenship behavior and organizational commitment and positive relationship with job stress, work performance and turnover intention. Understanding serves as moderators of the relationships between perceptions of organizational politics sub-dimension and job satisfaction, job stress, work performance, turnover intention, organization citizenship behavior, and organizational commitment. Perceived of control serves as a moderator of the relationships between perceptions of organizational politics sub-dimension and job stress, work performance, turnover intention, and organizational commitment.

Higher educational institutions no longer provide the low-stress and highly satisfying working environment they once did. Higher educational institutions experience significant changes, which include restructuring, reduction of state subsidy and use of short-term contracts. Therefore, the changes in the higher educational environment can have costly implications for institutions in terms of staff morale, turnover and absenteeism rates and could also lead to reduced employee performance, poor quality control and a fall in production. It therefore becomes increasingly important for higher educational institutions to intervene to reduce the occupational stress of university staff. The objectives of this study were to determine the occupational stressors for support staff at a higher education institution in the North West Province, to investigate the relationship between occupational stress, ill health, organisational commitment and important organisational outcomes (including absenteeism, productivity and turnover intention) and to assess the financial implications of these factors in a sample of support staff at a higher education institution in the North West Province. A cross-sectional survey design was used. The study population consisted of support staff at a higher education institution in the North West Province (N = 292). An Organisational Screening Tool (ASSET) and a biographical questionnaire were administered. Descriptive statistics, Pearson and Spearman correlations, multiple regression analyses and discriminant analysis were used to analyse the results. The results showed that, compared to normative data, support staff overall demonstrated average levels of occupational stress. However, job control, resources, communication and work relationships were found to be problematic stressors which mainly influenced organisational commitment to the organisation. The prediction of losses suffered by the higher educational institution due to absenteeism, presenteeism and turnover intention indicate that occupational stress cost organisations greatly. Recommendations were made for the organisation and for future research. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

In the present study, the attitudinal differences between the public and private school teachers in Albania were investigated. The attitudinal variables were: job satisfaction, job involvement, organizational commitment, and one behavioral intention: turnover intention. Data was gathered from totally 429 teachers working in public (N = 254) and private (N = 175) schools in Albania, in high and secondary schools. Of them, 73% were females (N = 315) and 27% were males (N = 114). The sample mean age was found to be 39 and it varied from 22 to 63 years. Results supported only the hypothesis that stated that the private school teachers are more satisfied with their jobs as compared to their colleagues working in the public sector. Although the hypothesis regarding job involvement and organizational commitment were not supported, it was found that there were significant differences between the teachers working in the public and private schools, with respect to these variables. In the last hypothesis, significant difference was expected for the turnover intention between the public and private sector teachers, however this hypothesis was not supported also. The results are discussed along with the limitations of the study and suggestions for future research.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-02T21:42:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rogerio dos Santos Silva.pdf: 409038 bytes, checksum: f80296e6fc32965f849389e4d183ff51 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-12 / The aim of this study was to analyze, interpret and discuss the relationship between perceived organizational support, affective organizational commitment and turnover intention and the effect of variables: gender, age, seniority and leadership on turnover intention. The study included 132 workers who work in the state of São Paulo in public and private organizations. As a tool for data collection, a self-administered questionnaire consists of three scales that measured variables were used. This research was aimed to present, interpret and discuss the relationships between variables, but also test the hypotheses concerning the proposed conceptual framework, through a cross-cutting research with quantitative approach, which collected data were analyzed by applying techniques parametric statistics (calculation of descriptive statistics: mean, standard deviation, student t test, correlation and multivariate statistical calculations: analysis of hierarchical multiple regression). The processing and analysis of data were performed by the statistical software Statistical Package for Social Sciences - SPSS, version 19.0 for Windows. The results showed that perceived organizational support and organizational commitment are direct predictors of turnover intention. Variables: gender, age, seniority and leadership showed no significant regression coefficients, therefore we can t state that are antecedents of turnover intention. The results were discussed in light of literature in the field, having been compared with results from other empirical studies. / O objetivo geral deste estudo foi analisar, interpretar e discutir as relações entre a percepção de suporte organizacional, comprometimento organizacional afetivo e intenção de rotatividade e os efeitos das variáveis: gênero, idade, tempo de trabalho e chefia sobre a intenção de rotatividade. Participaram deste estudo 132 trabalhadores que atuam no estado de São Paulo em organizações públicas e privadas. Como instrumento para a coleta de dados foi utilizado um questionário de autopreenchimento composto por três escalas que mediram as variáveis. A presente pesquisa se propôs a apresentar, interpretar e discutir as relações entre as variáveis, como também, testar as hipóteses referentes ao modelo conceitual proposto, por meio de uma pesquisa de natureza transversal com abordagem quantitativa, cujos dados coletados foram analisados por aplicação de técnicas estatísticas paramétricas (cálculos de estatísticas descritivas: médias, desvio padrão, teste t student, correlações e cálculos de estatísticas multivariadas: analise da regressão múltipla hierárquica). O tratamento e análise dos dados foram realizados pelo software estatístico Statistical Package for Social Science SPSS, versão 19.0 para Windows. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram que percepção de suporte organizacional e o comprometimento organizacional são preditores diretos de intenção de rotatividade. As variáveis: gênero, idade, tempo de trabalho e chefia não apresentaram coeficientes de regressão significantes, portanto não é possível afirmar que são antecedentes de intenção de rotatividade. Os resultados foram discutidos à luz da literatura da área, tendo sido comparados com resultados de outros estudos empíricos.

本研究旨在探討地方政府主管建築機關受僱人員的工作滿意和離職傾向。過去研究指出，工作滿意能使員工持續參與並為組織奉獻；反之，較低的工作滿意則可能導致較高的離職傾向，即工作滿意和離職傾向之間具有負向關聯性。除此之外，許多研究也指出，不同的個人屬性亦會導致不同程度的工作滿意與離職傾向。有鑑於維護公共安全的重要職責，地方政府主管建築機關卻經常出現離職率居高不下的情形，本研究因此以新北市政府工務局的受僱人員為對象，希望藉由探討其工作滿意與離職傾向，歸納研究結果與發現，提供建議予個案機關及其他地方政府主管建築機關參考，作為提高工作滿意及排除離職傾向之策略依據。研究結果發現：個案機關的工作滿意為略低的程度，離職傾向為略高的程度；不同性別的外在滿意具有顯著差異；不同性別、教育程度、服務年資及服務單位的離職傾向具有顯著差異；工作滿意與離職傾向具有顯著的負向關聯性；工作滿意及外在滿意對離職傾向具有顯著的負向影響性。因此，本研究認為，要有效減緩個案機關的離職傾向，可以先從提高受僱人員的外在滿意著手。 / The purpose of this study is to explore the job satisfaction and turnover intention of employees at the competent authority of construction. Past studies have shown that job satisfaction can make the staff continue to participate in and dedicate to the organization; on the other hand, lower job satisfaction can lead to higher turnover intention; that is to say, there is a negative correlation between job satisfaction and turnover intention. In addition, many studies have also pointed out that different personel characteristics result in differernt job satisfaction and differernt turnover intention. Whereas the responsbilities of maintaining public safety, high trunover rates occur frequently in local competent authority of construction, and therefore this study was based on the employees of Public Works Department of New Taipei City Government, hoping to explore their job satisfaction and turnover intention, summarize the findings and provide the suggestion to the case and other local competent authority of construction for reference, as the policy of improving job satisfaction and reducing turnover intention. This study found that the job satisfaction of the case was on the low side and the turnover intention was on the high side. There was a significant difference of job satisfaction between differernt genders, and also a significant difference of turnover intention between differernt genders, differernt educational backgrounds, differernt seniorities and differernt departments. There was a significant negative correlation between job satisfaction and turnover intention, and also a significant negative impact between job satisfaction and turnover intention, especially extrinsic satisfaction. Therefore, this study suggests the case to improve the extrinsic satisfaction of employees to reduce their turnover intention.

This study evaluates archival data from a home intervention with an at-risk preschool child and her family. The intervention model studied was created by the Developmental Research Lab at Texas Christian University. Data was collected prior to and during the first 4 weeks of intervention to assess change in parent-child interaction, behavior and neurochemical profile. Measures used include coding of videotape recordings of the intervention, neurotransmitter levels taken via subject urine samples, Child Behavior Checklist, Parent Stress Index, and ACTeRS Parent Form. Results suggest positive change in parent-child interaction, behavior and neurochemical profile. However, consistent growth was not observed in several neurochemical results. Future studies should assess the entirety of the home intervention model and with a larger sample size.

Employee turnover has been one of the most serious issues facing the hotel industry for many years. Both researchers and practitioners have devoted considerable time and effort to better understand and indentify ways to decrease employee turnover. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of individual differences focusing on career motivation and polychronicity on job satisfaction and its influence on employee turnover intention in the hotel industry. This study surveyed 609 non-supervisory employees working at two Dallas hotels. Respondents provided information regarding career motivations, polychronicity, job satisfaction, and turnover intention. Career motivations were significantly related to employee job satisfaction which impacted employee turnover intention. This finding can be useful to hotel companies and their managers when attempting to understand employee motivation.

<div>To capture the dynamic nature of frontline employees’ subjective well-being (SWB) and turnover intention in the hotel industry, this study used Affective Events Theory (Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996) and the unfolding model of employee voluntary turnover (Lee & Mitchell, 1994) to argue the short-term variability in SWB and turnover intention. Using the job demandsresources model (JD-R model) as the framework, this study examined the role of daily job</div><div>demands (challenge stressors, hindrance stressors, and emotional dissonance) and the role of daily job resources (supervisor support, coworker support, and job autonomy). Given that hotel employees work with different supervisors and co-workers and face various guest situations during each shift, these employees may face high work stress and workload. Furthermore, employees in this industry are often requested to perform non-routine tasks. Therefore, their work is highly associated with high job demands and resource variability. Moreover, the study results stress the importance of the moderating role of day-level job resources and the multilevel moderating effects of employees’ individual levels of resilience and self-efficacy. </div><div>The design of the study employed an experience sampling method. Participants were employees who are in guest-facing positions from food & beverage and front office departments in full-service or luxury hotels in the United States. Sixty-five participants completed a one-time baseline survey and a daily diary study twice per day for at least five working days, resulting in a total of 416 day-level observations. The data structure is day nested within each person. The multi-level data was analyzed by using multilevel linear modeling. </div><div>In summary, this study shows that SWB and turnover intention may not always be stable phenomena among hotel employees due to the daily influences of job demands and job resources. In addition, both personal resources and daily job resources were found to mitigate the negative daily influences of job demands. This study helps managers to better understand employees’ feelings on a daily basis and apply strategies for daily management of employee SWB and turnover intention.</div>

This study aimed to determine whether different sources of social support play different roles in moderating job insecurity and its outcomes, identify which source of support is more important and whether there are gender differences in terms of interest variables between men and women. This research was intended to support business actors and employees from the trade, tourism, and hotel sectors by providing the necessary support to manage the consequences of work-family interference, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions associated with job insecurity. Data was collected by sending a questionnaire that included information about the study and how the data will be handled and several questions from several well-established survey scales (N=220). The study found no interaction between job insecurity and social support – neither from supervisors nor colleagues. The hypothesized moderating effect of sources of support generally, and previous findings about supervisors being a more important source of support were therefore not supported in this study. Also, although gender differences on the variables of interest in this study could be seen, none of it was statistically significant. The results of the regression analyses show that different combinations of job insecurity and sources of social support predict the outcome variables.