The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of manager behaviour on the turnover intentions of employees with scarce and critical skills in the mining industry. A cross-sectional survey design was used. A purposive sample (n = 505) was used to collect the data at a platinum operation. Questionnaires were given to employees with scarce and critical skills who fall within the C1 - D1 Patterson level range. Cronbach alpha coefficients were used to assess the reliability and validity of the measuring instruments. All the factors relating to manager's behaviour proved reliable, with the exception of feedback, and recommendations were made to improve the reliability of this specific scale. Results indicated statistically significant relationships between job satisfaction, recognition, feedback, communication from the manager and supervisor support, while a lack of job satisfaction, recognition, feedback, communication from the manager and supervisor support could be applied to predict turnover intentions of employees with scarce and critical skills. The moderating effect of supervisor social support between levels of recognition and turnover intention was supported. Based on the results obtained, conclusions were made after which recommendations were made for future research. / Thesis (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

The objective of this study was, firstly, to investigate the reliability of a measure of qualitative and quantitative job insecurity and, secondly, to determine the relationship between qualitative and quantitative job insecurity, job satisfaction, affective organisational commitment, turnover intention and locus of control. A cross–sectional survey design was used which included participants randomly selected from a retail banking group across junior, supervisory and middle management levels (n=178). The job insecurity scales of Hellgren, Sverke and Isaksson (1999); job satisfaction scale of Hellgren, Sjöberg and Sverke (1997); affective organisational commitment scale of Allen and Meyer (1990); turnover intention scale of Sjöberg and Sverke (2001) and the locus of control scale of Levenson (1981) were administered. Descriptive statistics were used in order to analyse the data. Structural equivalence was used for the comparison of the factor structures of the job insecurity scale for the three language groups. Furthermore, in order to determine the relationships between the variables, the Pearson product–moment correlation coefficients were used, while the dependent variable turnover intention was predicted by means of a regression analysis. As indicated at the outset, two research articles form the basis of this mini–dissertation: Based on the first article, results indicate that both the qualitative and quantitative scale presented satisfactory levels of reliability across different language groups, and a relationship between these dimensions (quantitative and qualitative) was noticeable. However, the item “I think my future prospects and opportunities within the organisation are good” included in the qualitative job insecurity scale could well be problematic, the deduction being that language barriers probably played a role in participants’ interpretation of the question. According to the second article, both qualitative and quantitative job insecurity positively related to turnover intentions. Furthermore, job satisfaction reported a negative relationship with turnover intention, and a negative relationship between qualitative job insecurity and job satisfaction came to the fore. Locus of control, on the other hand, had a direct bearing on qualitative job insecurity, while only job satisfaction and quantitative job insecurity directly predicted employees’ turnover intention in the banking sector. Finally, locus of control seemingly had no mediating effect when predicting turnover intention. Based on the afore–going, this mini–dissertation will conclude by offering deductions and making recommendations for further research as well as offering possible solutions to the commercial banking sector as far as the retention of staff is concerned. / Thesis (M.Com. (Human Resource Management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.

The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of manager behaviour on the turnover intentions of employees with scarce and critical skills in the mining industry. A cross-sectional survey design was used. A purposive sample (n = 505) was used to collect the data at a platinum operation. Questionnaires were given to employees with scarce and critical skills who fall within the C1 - D1 Patterson level range. Cronbach alpha coefficients were used to assess the reliability and validity of the measuring instruments. All the factors relating to manager's behaviour proved reliable, with the exception of feedback, and recommendations were made to improve the reliability of this specific scale. Results indicated statistically significant relationships between job satisfaction, recognition, feedback, communication from the manager and supervisor support, while a lack of job satisfaction, recognition, feedback, communication from the manager and supervisor support could be applied to predict turnover intentions of employees with scarce and critical skills. The moderating effect of supervisor social support between levels of recognition and turnover intention was supported. Based on the results obtained, conclusions were made after which recommendations were made for future research. / Thesis (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

The objective of this study was, firstly, to investigate the reliability of a measure of qualitative and quantitative job insecurity and, secondly, to determine the relationship between qualitative and quantitative job insecurity, job satisfaction, affective organisational commitment, turnover intention and locus of control. A cross–sectional survey design was used which included participants randomly selected from a retail banking group across junior, supervisory and middle management levels (n=178). The job insecurity scales of Hellgren, Sverke and Isaksson (1999); job satisfaction scale of Hellgren, Sjöberg and Sverke (1997); affective organisational commitment scale of Allen and Meyer (1990); turnover intention scale of Sjöberg and Sverke (2001) and the locus of control scale of Levenson (1981) were administered. Descriptive statistics were used in order to analyse the data. Structural equivalence was used for the comparison of the factor structures of the job insecurity scale for the three language groups. Furthermore, in order to determine the relationships between the variables, the Pearson product–moment correlation coefficients were used, while the dependent variable turnover intention was predicted by means of a regression analysis. As indicated at the outset, two research articles form the basis of this mini–dissertation: Based on the first article, results indicate that both the qualitative and quantitative scale presented satisfactory levels of reliability across different language groups, and a relationship between these dimensions (quantitative and qualitative) was noticeable. However, the item “I think my future prospects and opportunities within the organisation are good” included in the qualitative job insecurity scale could well be problematic, the deduction being that language barriers probably played a role in participants’ interpretation of the question. According to the second article, both qualitative and quantitative job insecurity positively related to turnover intentions. Furthermore, job satisfaction reported a negative relationship with turnover intention, and a negative relationship between qualitative job insecurity and job satisfaction came to the fore. Locus of control, on the other hand, had a direct bearing on qualitative job insecurity, while only job satisfaction and quantitative job insecurity directly predicted employees’ turnover intention in the banking sector. Finally, locus of control seemingly had no mediating effect when predicting turnover intention. Based on the afore–going, this mini–dissertation will conclude by offering deductions and making recommendations for further research as well as offering possible solutions to the commercial banking sector as far as the retention of staff is concerned. / Thesis (M.Com. (Human Resource Management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.

本研究旨在探討我國行政機關電話服務專線人員之工作滿意、工作倦怠與離職傾向之現況及其相互關係，並以臺北市政府1999臺北市民當家熱線作為探討個案。本研究藉由國內外相關文獻之探討，以建立工作滿意、工作倦怠與離職傾向間的影響關係模式，並藉由此些理論與研究之檢視，發展出本研究的調查問卷，複經專家學者審查後，針對研究對象以立意抽樣法進行問卷施測。 本研究共發放問卷99份，回收有效問卷計81份，採描述性統計、獨立樣本t檢定與單因子變異數分析等方法進行資料分析；獲致的結論如次： 一、1999話務人員之工作滿意的現況為中等，於工作倦怠之現況為中等略偏低，在離職傾向的現況為中等。 二、除了婚姻狀態此項以外，不同背景變項的1999話務人員在離職傾向上無顯著差異。 三、1999話務人員的內在及外在滿意度兩構面，皆與情緒耗竭及去人性化兩構面，呈顯著負相關。 四、1999話務人員的內在及外在滿意度兩構面，皆與離職傾向構面，呈顯著負相關。 五、1999話務人員的情緒耗竭及去人性化兩構面，皆與離職傾向構面，呈顯著正相關。 / The main purpose of this study was to explore the recently psychological situation and the relationships among job satisfaction, burnout and turnover intention, and Taipei City Government 1999 Citizen Hotline as a case. This study collected and absorbed the essence of other related documents and records, to construct the model of effectiveness and to raise the hypotheses what the study wanted to examine and conclude. The questionnaires were supervised by experts, and then they were sent to ninety nine Telephonists of Taipei City Government 1999 Citizen Hotline and retrieved 81 effective questionnaires. The statistical methods used to analyze the data were descriptive statistics, t-test and one-way ANOVA. The conclusions were as follows: 1. The 1999 telephonists’ recently situation of the extent of the job satisfaction was “medium”, the burnout was “medium low”, and the turnover intention was “medium”. 2. The individual status variables were no significant difference except for “marriage status” among turnover intention of the 1999 telephonists. 3. Both the eternal and external job satisfactions were determined and had negative correlation with Emotional Exhaustion and Diminished Personal Accomplishment. 4. Both the eternal and external job satisfactions were determined and had negative correlation with turnover intention. 5. Both the Emotional Exhaustion and Diminished Personal Accomplishment were determined and had negative correlation with turnover intention.

全球化的衝擊下，我國港埠發展必須透過改變以開創新的契機迎接挑戰。因此，原為公務機關的港務局，於2012年3月經「政企分離」改制為「臺灣港務股份有限公司（TIPC）」，然而，目前港務公司雖已改制，但內部成員仍處新舊人員交替階段，具公務員身分之繼續任用人員（舊人）陸續退休，但新進從業人員（新人）的養成仍需時間，此造成組織人力老化與斷層的嚴重問題。如何有效讓舊人傳承經驗給新人，並培養中間幹部與迅速補充人力，建立資源統合機制為臺灣港務公司需正視的課題。轉型之後，為鞏固公司順利運作與發展，新舊成員們所認知的組織文化型態、組織社會化情形、組織承諾程度，如何影響離職意圖實有探討必要。故本研究實證此四個研究變項的關係，提供臺灣港務公司和相關管理階層，作為落實人力資源管理與預防員工離職行為之參考。 本研究選定臺灣港務公司之總公司及基隆、臺中、高雄、花蓮四個分公司人員為研究母體，共計回收280份有效問卷，並以SPSS 21與AMOS 21統計軟體針對問卷資料進行「描述性統計、差異性分析、信度與效度、積差相關、驗證性因素分析與多元階層迴歸」等分析方法，以瞭解研究變項彼此關聯與假設驗證，研究結果有以下發現： 一、組織社會化無法有效預測離職意圖。在三種不同型態組織文化與離職意圖上，僅創新型文化有顯著效果，但影響方向相較於先前研究有關組織文化在離職意圖的結果相反。組織承諾與離職意圖達負向顯著影響效果。最後，新人離職意圖確實較舊人高。 二、在個別的調節作用探討上，新、舊人員在組織社會化、官僚型文化、創新型文化、支持型文化與離職意圖的關係中皆有干擾效果；僅組織承諾對離職意圖無調節效果。 從實證結果本研究得到三項結論，首先，公司成員對臺灣港務公司至今究竟較偏向何種型態的組織文化樣貌亦有不同於以往相關研究之看法，從中公司可藉此反思應如何持續強化或加深成員們對該組織的總體印象。其次，整體而言，公司成員對於公司仍相當具有組織承諾感，亦即當成員愈認同該組織的價值觀、經營模式與建立同仁間感情關係等措施，則愈不易產生離開公司的念頭，並會期望自己能長期留任於公司盡己所能地貢獻與服務。第三，新人無論在組織社會化、以制度規範為基礎的文化、創新型文化、支持型文化等面向，其離職意圖皆低於舊人。 最後，本研究建議臺灣港務公司應重視新、舊人的離職意圖問題，考量組織文化、組織社會化與組織承諾的重要影響。兩類不同身分成員對離職意圖的差異，針對不同的組織文化型態、組織社會化策略與方案，思考如何提升成員的組織承諾，並研擬相關策略規劃與制定，以使更臻完備。 / Due to the impact of globalization, the development of shipping and transportation management in Taiwan’ is necessary to change to create new opportunities. Therefore, the Port Authority was restructuring by separating the division of administration and enterprise operations and transformed into Taiwan International Ports Corporation, LTD (TIPC) on March, 2012. Although the TIPC has been reformed, the members are still in the alternation stage with the old employees and new comers. While the senior staff, who are public servants gradually retire, the new hired employees still need some time to adapt the new environment. In consequence, the work force is getting aging and discrepancy that will result in serious managerial problems to the organization. How to effectively cultivate the work environment that allows the newcomers having senior staff experiences, develops the middle level cadres of managers, and establishes the mechanism to integrate resources is very critical issues. It must be addressed squarely by the TIPC. Focusing on the four variables of the organizational culture, organizational socialization, organizational commitment, and the turnover intention, this study examines the relationship among the four variables. The findings provide managerial implications for TIPC to implement human resource management and preventing employees from leaving their jobs. The purpose of this study is to explore the associations among organizational culture, organizational socialization, organizational commitment, turnover intention, and the moderation effect of newcomer and senior staff. The participants of this study were employees of TIPC. The total valid sample size was 280. Using SPSS21 and AMOS 21 the data was analyzed by the descriptive statistics analysis, t test, one-way ANOVA, Reliability Analysis and Validity Analysis, Pearson product-moment correlation, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and Multiple Hierarchical Regression Analysis. Based upon the hierarchical regression analysis, the findings were as follows: First, organizational socialization has negatively relationship with turnover intention but no significance. Second, for relationships among the three different types of organizational culture and turnover intention, only innovative culture has positive and significant impact on turnover intention. While bureaucratic culture and supportive culture have negative directions with turnover intention, neither of them show significant magnitudes with the outcome variable. But compared to previous research on the impact of organizational culture and turnover intention, the findings demonstrate the opposite direction. Third, organizational commitment has a negative and significant relationship with turnover intention. Four, the turnover intention of newcomer is indeed higher than senior staff. Finally, there is a moderation effect for newcomers and senior staff to the relationships among organizational socialization, bureaucratic culture, innovative culture, supportive culture and turnover intention. But newcomers and senior staff couldn’t moderate the relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention. From the empirical results of this study, three conclusions are drawn. First, the members of the company have different opinions on the type of organizational culture that is different from previous studies. From this point of view, the TIPC needs to contemplate how to develop and strengthen the overall impression of members on the organization. Second, as a whole, newcomers and senior staff have a high level of organizational commitment to the company. The result indicates that when members can recognize more about the organizational values, business models, and relationships with their cohorts, the less likely that they will leave the company. In other words, employees can stay longer and contribute more for the company.. Third, when it comes to organizational socialization, institution-based culture, innovative culture, and supportive culture, those newcomers are less likely to leave their jobs than senior staff. Our suggestions of this study are as below: 1. TIPC should pay more attention to the issue of newcomers’ and senior staff’s turnover intention and consider the important influence of organizational culture, organizational socialization and organizational commitment. 2. In terms of this study, we look forward to providing enterprises with a reference of how to focus on different types of personnel category (e.g., newcomers vs. senior staff) about the problem of turnover intention. The differences between the two types of personnel category regarding their turnover intention are based on different organizational culture patterns, strategies and plans for organizing socialization. TIPC should also think about how to enhance the organizational commitment of their members, and design relevant strategies to make its strategic plan more comprehensive.

The research focused on constructing a psychological wellbeing profile for employee wellness and talent retention practices by investigating employees’ psychological wellbeing-related attributes (constituting self-esteem, emotional intelligence, hardiness, work engagement and psychosocial flourishing), and whether these significantly mediate the relation between their experiences of bullying and their intention to leave the organisation when controlling for bullying, age, gender, race, tenure and job level. A quantitative survey was conducted on a convenience sample of employed adults (N = 373) of different age, gender, race, tenure and job level groups from various South African organisations. The canonical statistical procedures indicated work engagement (vigour, dedication and absorption) and hardiness (commitment-alienation) as the strongest psychological wellbeing-related dispositional attributes in the workplace bullying and turnover intention relationship. The mediation modelling results showed that workplace bullying significantly predicted turnover intention, which in turn, significantly predicted either high/low levels of work engagement (vigour and dedication) in one’s work. Self-esteem, emotional intelligence or hardiness did not seem likely to influence the relationship between workplace bullying and turnover intention. The multiple regression analysis indicated that participants’ biographical variables (age, gender, race and job level) significantly predicted workplace bullying, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, hardiness, work engagement and psychosocial flourishing, and turnover intention. The tests for significant mean differences indicated that participants from various biographical groups (age, gender, race, tenure and job level) statistically significantly differed regarding workplace bullying (independent variable), the psychological wellbeing-related variables, namely self-esteem, emotional intelligence, hardiness, employee engagement, psychosocial flourishing (mediating variables) and turnover intention (dependent variable). On a theoretical level, the study deepened understanding of the cognitive, affective and conative behavioural dimensions of the hypothesised psychological wellbeing profile. On an empirical level, the main findings were reported and interpreted in terms of an empirically derived psychological wellbeing profile based on the work engagement of the participants. On a practical level, the findings provided valuable guidelines for the development of talent retention and wellness interventions, which might add to the body of knowledge relating to psychological wellbeing-related dispositional attributes that influenced workplace bullying and talent retention / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / D. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

Orientation: This study is about team dialogue and how dialogue in teams may impact on levels of employee engagement, especially how this can be applied and used in Industrial & Organisational Psychology. Research purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the influence that dialogue sessions in work teams may have on employee engagement. Motivation for the study: The manager and first-line superior play a crucial role in facilitating and enabling the connection between the employee and the organisation and how this impacts on employee engagement. When practised successfully, dialogue may have an influence on the level of employee engagement, as it allows groups to move beyond any one individual’s understanding to gain new insights and to create ideas in ways that could not be achieved individually. It may be argued that team dialogue and relational practices could assist in improving employee engagement in the South African workplace. Research design, approach and method: The study used a quasi-experimental approach in terms of which an experimental group was exposed to an organisational development intervention of team dialogues over a period of time and then compared to a control group that had not been exposed to the organisational development team dialogue intervention. The main findings were reported and discussed, and recommendations were made. Main findings: Team dialogues have an impact on employee engagement Contributions/value add: This study contributes to the field of Industrial & Organisational Psychology in that it demonstrates the influence that team dialogue has on employee engagement. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

The objectives of the study were to determine the relationship between the demographic variables, work-life balance (as measured by the Survey Work-Home Interaction - Nijmegen), job satisfaction (as measured by the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire) and turnover intention (as measured by the Turnover Intention Scale); to determine whether the demographic variables and work-life balance significantly predict job satisfaction and turnover intention; and to determine the differences between biographical groups. A quantitative cross-sectional survey research design was applied to a stratified random sample of 79 employees in a South African IT company. Descriptive statistics, correlations, independent t-tests and regressions were used to analyse the data. Analysis revealed that job satisfaction has a significant negative relationship with turnover intention. Furthermore, the work-home interface sub-dimensions of work-life balance have both a positive and negative relationship with job satisfaction and turnover intention. There are significant differences between the various biographical groups. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-02T21:42:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lilian Cristina.pdf: 1059441 bytes, checksum: a594dec839ce5298c86a3ae9b48dc804 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-25 / The turnover intention refers to the probability of individuals leaving their current job. This topic has become relevant to organizations since it is a potential problem, which may affect the organizations competitiveness, amongst other reasons. It is believed that some of the individuals who have turnover intention look for means of communication, new technologies, such as the professional social network LinkedIn, in order to spread their professional information, find professional opportunities by networking, as well as obtain more information about the labor market, besides different other functions. Therefore, the turnover intention may be considered as a previous factor to the individual adoption of the professional social network LinkedIn. This study has analyzed the previous factors that may influence the usage and how they use the professional social network LinkedIn, guided by the theoretical perspective of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), by Venkatesh et al (2003), and also guided by the scale of the turnover intention, by Siqueira et al (2014)and Van Dam (2008). The research is based on a quantitative investigation approach, in which data collection was done using a research tool, and obtained 292 answered questionnaires, which has made it possible to validate the relations between the constructs of the research model developed for the study of the individual adoption of the professional social network LinkedIn. There was an analysis of structural equations to make the test of the study hypotheses, based on PLS-PM (Partial Least Squares Path Modeling) from which satisfactory measures for all the investigated constructs and proposed models were presented, and all the relations between the constructs were significant. The results obtained by this study confirm the influence of previous factors, such as Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence, and Turnover Intention, on the intention of using the professional social network LinkedIn. The study concludes that the Performance Expectancy was revealed to be the greatest influence in the intention of using LinkedIn, since there is the perception that by using it, it is possible to obtain some professional benefits as well as other aspects. The second factor to present the greatest influence was the Turnover Intention, once some individuals, by adopting LinkedIn, may tend to show it to other people or organizations that are interested in their talents, experiences, skills, network and so on. The Effort Expectancy, in turn, showed that some individuals notice it is easy to interact with such technology, and the Social Influence showed that there is the individuals perception as to the influence of their network in their intention of using LinkedIn. / A intenção de rotatividade refere-se à probabilidade de os indivíduos deixarem o seu trabalho atual. Este tema se tornou relevante para as organizações por ser um potencial problema que pode afetar a competitividade das organizações, entre outros motivos. Acredita-se que alguns dos indivíduos com intenção de rotatividade possivelmente buscam meios de comunicação, novas tecnologias, como a rede social profissional LinkedIn objetivando disseminar suas informações profissionais, localizar oportunidades profissionais, obter mais contatos e informações sobre o mercado de trabalho, entre outras possibilidades. Desse modo, a intenção de rotatividade pode ser avaliada como um fator antecedente à adoção individual da rede social profissional LinkedIn. Este estudo analisou os fatores antecedentes que podem influenciar a intenção de uso e o comportamento de uso da rede social profissional LinkedIn, apoiando-se na perspectiva teórica da Teoria Unificada de Aceitação e Uso da Tecnologia (UTAUT), de Venkatesh et al (2003), e na escala de intenção de rotatividade, de Siqueira et al (2014) e Van Dam (2008). A pesquisa fundamenta-se em uma abordagem de investigação quantitativa na qual os dados foram coletados por meio de um instrumento de pesquisa com a obtenção de 292 questionários respondidos, o que possibilitou a validação dos relacionamentos entre os construtos componentes do modelo de pesquisa desenvolvido para o estudo da adoção individual da rede social profissional LinkedIn. Para realizar o teste das hipóteses do estudo, procedeu-se a análise de equações estruturais, com base no PLS-PM (Partial Least Squares Path Modeling) a partir do qual foram apresentadas medidas satisfatórias para os construtos investigados e o modelo proposto, sendo significativas todas as relações entre os construtos. Os resultados obtidos por esta pesquisa confirmam a influência dos fatores antecedentes Expectativa de Desempenho, Expectativa de Esforço, Influência Social e Intenção de Rotatividade na intenção de uso da rede social profissional LinkedIn. O estudo concluiu que Expectativa de Desempenho revelou-se o fator que mais influencia na intenção de uso do LinkedIn, pois há a percepção de que ao utilizar o LinkedIn pode-se obter benefícios profissionais, entre outros aspectos. O segundo fator que apresentou maior influência na intenção de uso do LinkedIn foi a intenção de rotatividade, uma vez que alguns dos indivíduos, ao adotarem o LinkedIn, provavelmente tendem a mostrar para as outras pessoas/organizações interessadas quais são os seus talentos, suas experiências, competências, além de obter mais contatos, entre outros motivos. Já a Expectativa de Esforço demonstrou que alguns indivíduos percebem que é fácil a interação desta tecnologia. A Influência Social constatou que existe a percepção dos indivíduos quanto à influência da sua rede de contatos na intenção de uso do LinkedIn.