Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-02T21:42:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JDFrancisco3.pdf: 326836 bytes, checksum: d425aa8b2f5ce720939ace48ebbb5fac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-09-30 / Much has inquired about the antecedents of turnover intention. Among the possible variables with ability to relate to plans of employees leaving the organization stand out, job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment. The present study aimed to analyze the relationship between these three variables, job satisfaction, affective organizational commitment and turnover intention . Linking objectives through its internal or external stimuli, unraveled in the study in a diamond-mining in Angola where we analyzed the relationships between the three variables. 151 employees participated in the survey, all of Angolan nationality, randomly selected in different areas of the same company. After questionnaires with this three validated measures and accurate processing of the date, all numerical in nature, was processed by the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences SPSS, version 19.0 for Windows. It was found that the mean age of participants was 38.34 (SD = 8.42) years, mostly male, unmarried, with complete secondary school, not exercising management positions, belonging to the group (GP III) a total of 89 (58.9%), doing much of his work with another person or group, with working time ranging from 1 (one) to 16 years. The descriptive results indicate that workers hold a picture of job satisfaction, satisfaction with the largest proportionate number of times and opportunities to be promoted with the professional capacity of their leaders, foud in understanding each other and the way they are treated by their heads, and lower with the kind of friendship, trust and spirit of cooperation demonstrated by their colleagues, as well as the ability absorbed and salary compared to how it works. The framework of affective organizational commitment, shows greater affection issues the company in making the employee fell proud of it and happy with it, as the slightest affection related issues fell enthusiastic about her and interested in her. Correlation analysis by Pearson s r indices reported negative and significant between the two variables and turnover intention. These results stated that the plan to leave the company where they work and less and less as they raise levels of job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment. / Muito se tem investigado sobre os antecedentes de intenção de rotatividade. Dentre as possíveis variáveis com capacidade de se relacionar aos planos dos trabalhadores deixarem a organização destacam-se: satisfação no trabalho e comprometimento organizacional afetivo. O presente estudo teve como objetivo geral analisar as relações entre estas três variáveis; satisfação no trabalho, comprometimento organizacional afetivo e intenção de rotatividade. Ligando-se aos objetivos através dos seus estímulos internos ou externos, desvendados no estudo em uma mineradora de diamantes em Angola onde foram analisadas as relações entre as três variáveis. Participaram na pesquisa 151 trabalhadores, todos de nacionalidade angolana selecionados aleatoriamente em diferentes áreas da mesma empresa. Após aplicação do questionários com três medidas validadas e precisas, o tratamento dos dados, todos de natureza numérica, foi processado pelo software estatístico Statistical Package for the Social Science SPSS, versão 19.0 para Windows. Apurou-se que a idade media dos participantes era de 38,34 (DP = 8,42) anos, sendo a maioria do sexo masculino, solteira, com o nível médio completo, não exercendo cargo de chefia, pertencendo ao grupo (GP - III) um total de 89 (58,9 %), realizando grande parte do seu trabalho com outra pessoa ou em grupo, com tempo de trabalho variando entre 1 (um) e 16 anos. Os resultados descritivos indicam que os trabalhadores detêm um quadro de satisfação no trabalho, com satisfações maiores proporcionadas pelo número de vezes e oportunidades de serem promovidos, com a capacidade profissional de seus chefes, no entendimento encontrado entre si e na maneira como são tratados pelos seus chefes; e menores com o tipo de amizade, confiança e espírito de colaboração demonstrada pelos seus colegas de trabalho, assim como com a capacidade absorvida e o salário se comparado com o quanto trabalha. O quadro do comprometimento organizacional afetivo demonstra maior afeto as questões relacionadas a empresa em fazer o empregado sentir-se orgulhoso e contente com ela. Análises de correlação pelo r de Pearson informaram índices negativos e significativos entre as duas variáveis e intenção de rotatividade. Tais resultados informam que o plano de deixar a empresa onde trabalham é cada vez menor à medida que se elevam os níveis de satisfação no trabalho e comprometimento organizacional afetivo.

Det har skett en förändring både på arbetsmarknaden och arbetsplatsen. Det som förändrats är förväntningarna på arbetet och på dess innehåll. Syftet med studien är att undersöka varför så många medarbetare väljer att lämna en avdelning i en organisation vars personalomsättning annars är låg. Resultatet ska kunna användas som ett underlag för att organisationer ska kunna höja sin retention och behålla befintliga samt framtida medarbetare på avdelningen. Denna studie är begränsad till en särskild avdelning och är utformad som en kvalitativ fallstudie med en abduktiv ansats. Åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts till största delen ur ett arbetstagarperspektiv men även med två arbetsgivarrepresentanter. Intervjuerna visade att avsikten att lämna avdelningen oftast beror på flera faktorer i kombination med varandra. Om de lämnar vid ett tidigare skede kan bero på att förväntningar inte uppfylls. Bristen på möjlighet till karriärutveckling gör att medarbetare lämnar avdelningen om de vill utvecklas. Det har funnits en känsla av att bli orättvist behandlad samt en brist på egenkontroll när de anställda möter en högre arbetsbelastning. Faktorerna ovan i kombination med brist på stöd ökar den anställdas avsikt att lämna.

臺北市消防人員自2015年起試辦「加發危險職務加給加成」政策，該政策實施迄今已3年餘，本研究藉該政策探討臺北市消防人員公共服務動機理論及薪資滿意度與離職傾向之關係。本研究主要採問卷調查法，另輔以質性訪談印證及補強問卷之不足；量化部分就臺北市現支領「加發危險職務加給加成者」為研究對象，實際有效問卷為1,209份，問卷回覆率為81%，以SPSS for Window 20.0統計套裝軟體進行資料處理分析，採描述性統計及推論性統計分析（信度分析、獨立樣本t檢定、單因子變異數分析及皮爾森積差相關等）；訪談部分以滾雪球方式，訪談2位現職臺北市消防人員及2位離職臺北市消防人員，研究結果如下，公共服務動機越高之消防人員離職傾向越低；薪資滿意度越高之消防人員離職傾向越低。 另依訪談者所填覆之簡要問卷及訪談內容，皆與量化結果略為相符，並從訪談內容發現，雖消防工作中最具激勵效果為內在激勵之助人成就感，但若藉以減緩離職傾向而言，仍略顯不足，尚須自消防工作之各實質外在工作層面考量，方能減緩人員離職傾向。本研究結果顯示臺北市消防人員具高度公共服務動機，且公共服務動機及薪資滿意度皆與離職傾向有顯著關係，爰主管機關應審慎考量盡速讓試辦政策納入法規常態發放，俾憑減緩消防人員之離職傾向。 關鍵字：公共服務動機、薪資滿意度、離職傾向 / The Taipei City Fire Department has initiated the policy of “Adding bonuses to those with dangerous duties” since 2015. The aforementioned policy has been implemented for more than three years. This study tries to explore this policy focusing primarily on the impacts of public service motivation (PSM) and compensation satisfaction on Taipei City firefighters’ turnover intention. This study adopts the questionnaire survey method, supplemented by qualitative interviews to verify and reinforce the results. The questionnaires were distributed to the Taipei City firefighters who received the dangerous duties bonuses. The total number of valid respondents was 1, 209 with a valid response rate of 81%. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (including the reliability test, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson correlation) were conducted using SPSS for Window 20.0. The snowball sampling method was chosen to find the interviewees, including two incumbent Taipei City firefighters and two resigned firefighters. Results of this study were twofold: first, a firefighter’s PSM was negatively associated with his/her turnover intention; second, a firefighter’s satisfaction on the compensation was also negatively associated with his/her turnover intention. Responses obtained from the interviews were consistent with the survey results. According to the interviewees, it is found that the intrinsic motivation, the accomplishment of helping others, is a critical element for the firefighters to perform their services. However, intrinsic motivation is still insufficient to reduce the their turnover intention. It is necessary to consider improving the work conditions of their work at the same time, which, in fact, is the most effective way to reduce firefighters’ turnover intention. The authorities, therefore, should consider rules and regulations regarding this matter and, thereafter, legalizing them as soon as possible to keep the firefighters. Keywords: public service motivation, compensation satisfaction, turnover intention

Hög personalomsättning är ett kostsamt problem för organisationer. I försök att motverka problemet har forskare försökt hitta personalomsättningens orsaker. Arbetstagares avsikt att lämna en organisation har visat sig vara en viktig prediktor för omsättning och därför har forskare studerat orsaker till denna avsikt. Syftet med denna undersökning var att undersöka de prediktorer som tidigare forskning visat kan vara signifikanta för avsikten att lämna en organisation: socialiseringstaktiker; organisationsengagemang; övergripande rättvisa; och medarbetarbeteenden. Undersökningen som här genomförts bestod av 74 deltagare som hade jobbat på sin arbetsplats i max sex månader och rekryterades via tillgänglighetsurval. Datainsamlingen skedde genom en webbenkät med självskattningsformulär. En multipel regressionsanalys visade att övergripande rättvisa och investerande kontra fråntagande socialiseringstaktiker var signifikanta prediktorer för avsikten att lämna organisationen. På grund av att urvalet var ett relativt litet snöbollsurval utan stor varians i demografisk bakgrund bör inga stora slutsatser dras utifrån detta resultat, men resultatet kan inspirera till vidare forskning inom ämnet.

Informal leaders can have similar effects on firm performance as formal leaders. Although informal leadership can play a critical role in organizational functioning, empirical research concerning this issue is scarce. I conceptualized informal leadership as a continuous variable, and tested the relationship between informal leadership and the following variables. First, this study examined how informal leaders can influence over other members, even though they do not possess formal power. Five indicators, i.e., performance, turnover intention, career satisfaction, work engagement, and optimism were selected to assess the qualities of informal leaders as role models. Second, this study advanced our understanding of how demographic factors (i.e., age, educational background, and work experience) contribute to shaping informal leadership. In addition, T-test was chosen to test whether informal leadership is more noteworthy in women than men. Lastly, this study compared the effects of informal and formal leaders on team effectiveness.

The primary objectives of the study were as follows: (1) to explore the relationship between career anchors (as measured by the Career Orientations Inventory), organisational commitment (as measured by the Organisational Commitment Questionnaire) and turnover intention (as measured by a three-item questionnaire, developed by Mobley, Horner, and Hollingsworth, 1978); and (2) to determine whether employees from different gender, race, employment positions and age groups differ significantly in their career anchors, organisational commitment and turnover intention. A quantitative survey was conducted on a non-probability sample of 343 employed adults at managerial and general staff levels in the South African retail sector. The results of this study suggest that there was a significant but weak relationship between employees‟ career anchors and their organisational commitment. Career anchors were also found to be significantly related to organisational commitment and turnover intention; with entrepreneurial creativity, lifestyle and service/dedication to a cause career anchors being the best predictors of these two variables. The relationship between organisational commitment and turnover intention was significant and negative, with affectively and normatively committed participants being more likely to remain with the organisation (i.e. having lower turnover intentions). In addition, the findings indicate that although gender has no relationship with turnover intention, race, employment position and age do. African, general staff and 30 years and younger participants indicated higher intentions to leave the organisation. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

<p>Managers within the hospitality industry are often required to handle irate guests through various service-recovery situations and thus are exposed to frequent guest aggression. Consequently, manager work is associated with high stress and anxiety. This study used several theories to understand the complex landscape of manager stress and anxiety within the hospitality industry. The Conservation of Resource Theory (Hobfoll, 1989), Stress as Offense to Self Theory (Semmer et al., 2007), and the Social Exchange Theory (Baumeister & Leary, 2005) are used as the foundation to delineate the roles of guest aggression and workplace social support played in reducing manager turnover intention through stress and anxiety. The study results identify that stress and anxiety are vital in impacting turnover intention; however, only certain forms of workplace social support (such as appraisal support) moderate the relationship in such a way that turnover intention decreases.</p> <p>The study design utilized a moderated-mediation analysis with a two-time cross-sectional survey. Respondents were guest-facing managers in various hospitality organizations, including restaurants, hotels, and clubs. Two hundred and sixty-three participants completed the first and second waves of the survey, and after data cleaning, a total of 260 usable responses remained. This study employed Hayes' (2018) mediation analysis model 4 and the moderated mediation analysis model 58 to test all hypotheses.</p> <p>This study shows that guest aggression is a significant predictor of turnover intention, and anxiety mediates the relationship leading to turnover intention. At the same time, stress only has a direct effect itself on turnover intention. In addition, this study found that some forms of workplace social support increased turnover intention, while supervisor appraisal (words of affirmation) moderated the relationship. Ultimately, this study helps guide organizations in making decisions that may reduce managers' intention to quit while providing a foundation for future researchers to examine how workplace social support uniquely affects managers.</p>

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationships between job satisfaction, work engagement, and turnover intention of health science teachers in the state of Texas. The healthcare profession is one of the largest growing occupations in the U.S. nationwide. The job growth outlook for healthcare professionals is projected to be on average 34% between 2014 and 2024. Despite the growing healthcare job categories, there is a shortage of healthcare professionals in the U.S. This study addressed the shortage of health science teachers in secondary education. Considering the importance of healthcare, especially with an aging U.S. population, it is critical to study the impact of work engagement and job satisfaction on teacher intent to leave the health science teaching profession. Through a correlational survey research design it was found that job satisfaction and work engagement are negatively related to turnover intention. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that job satisfaction accounted for 39.6% of the variation in turnover intention. Findings also showed that work engagement did not moderate the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention. Implications for research and practice are discussed and conclusions are provided.

Past research has shown the likelihood of work-to-family conflict in employees' struggle to manage work, family, and personal life, however, work-to-family conflict remained unexamined in employees' job attitudes at different job levels. Previous studies highlighted that employees at higher job level experience greater work-to-family conflict than employees at lower job level. The purpose of the study was to examine the moderating effects of job level (supervisory or managerial and nonsupervisory or nonmanagerial) on the relationships between work-to-family conflict and job attitudes (job satisfaction, work engagement, organizational commitment, and turnover intention). In this quantitative study, the theoretical framework included conflict theory and role enhancement theory. A convenience sampling of 149 working adults, aged 18 years to 65 years) volunteered to participate in an online survey. Participants completed an online survey. Collected data were analyzed using regression analysis. Based on the results, job level of the working adults moderated the relationships between work-to-family conflict and job attitudes, such that the relationship between work-to-family conflict and job attitudes of the working adults was stronger at high job level than at low job level.The findings may contribute to positive social change by providing useful information for human resource and management personnel of organizations in designing job level-specific training programs (e.g., work-life balance practices) and structuring appropriate settings (e.g., alternate work locations) to take control of leading, managing or coordinating projects, tasks or events in their work situations.

Information technology (IT) outsourcing poses a potential job loss threat to IT professionals, which can decrease job security, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. The problem that this study addressed was the perceived role of IT outsourcing in the job stress, job dissatisfaction, and turnover intention of IT professionals. The purpose of this study was to explore how job-related stress, job dissatisfaction, and turnover intention within the IT profession are influenced by outsourcing as perceived by IT workers themselves. Phenomenology was the methodology used, and the person-environment fit theory formed the theoretical framework for this study. The research questions addressed outsourcing and its impact on IT employees, based on the perceptions of the participants. Data were collected from 20 IT professionals at 4 medium-sized firms within Central Florida using open-ended interview questions. Significant themes emerged as the interview data were analyzed and coded using words that best described the data. Synthesis of the data collected indicated that job stress and job dissatisfaction were continuing concerns among the participants, as indicated in current general literature. However, turnover intention had a less consequential impact on the IT workers' reactions to the effects of outsourcing. Contrary to the expectation that IT outsourcing plays a negative role in the job satisfaction of the participants, the study results indicated that the majority of the participants were still satisfied in their positions following IT outsourcing activities. Managers could impact social change by understanding the levels of stress and job satisfaction IT professionals experience during outsourcing. Insights from this study may help improve employees' productivity, commitment, and contributions to their local economies.