Does job embeddedness predict turnover intentions in SMEs?

Job Embeddedness Demonstrates Incremental Validity When Predicting Turnover Intentions for Australian University Employees

Job embeddedness is a construct that describes the manner in which employees can be enmeshed in their jobs, reducing their turnover intentions. Recent questions regarding the properties of quantitative job embeddedness measures, and their predictive utility, have been raised. Our study compared two competing reflective measures of job embeddedness, examining their convergent, criterion, and inc...

Job Embeddedness and Turnover Intentions: An Empirical Investigation of Construction IT Industries

Organizations that can successfully retain their human resources have an advantage over organizations that cannot. Regardless of individual industry, the turnover of employees makes it difficult to secure a work force and costs companies enormous expenses to recruit, hire and train new personnel. Research targeting various industries does not show consistent results because of the different cha...

Turnover Contagion: How Coworkers’ Job Embeddedness and Job Search Behaviors Influence Quitting

This research developed and tested a model of turnover contagion in which the job embeddedness and job search behaviors of coworkers influence employees’ decisions to quit. In a sample of 45 branches of a regional bank and 1,038 departments of a national hospitality firm, multilevel analysis revealed that coworkers’ job embeddedness and job search behaviors explain variance in individual “volun...

“Mediating role of Job Involvement between Training and Turnover Intentions”

Personality Dimensions and Job Turnover Intentions: Findings from a University Context

Research has consistently indicated that worker turnover intentions are factors external to an employee; however, little work has investigated turnover intention behavior from personality perspective in a context of a private university in a low resourced country like Uganda.  The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of individual personality dimensions and job turnover intention...