personality dimensions and job turnover intentions: findings from a university context

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...

The Personality, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions of African-american Male and Female Accountants

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has made minority recruitment amajor goal. Minorities, and especially African-Americans, have not been entering the accountingprofession in proportion to their numbers in either the general population or the population ofcollege graduates. This paper reports on the results of a survey of a sample of 445 African-American ...

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...

The impact of sexual harassment on job satisfaction, turnover intentions, and absenteeism: findings from Pakistan compared to the United States

The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast how differences in perceptions of sexual harassment impact productive work environments for employees in Pakistan as compared to the US; in particular, how it affects job satisfaction, turnover, and/or absenteeism. This study analyzed employee responses in Pakistan (n = 146) and the United States (n = 102, 76) using questionnaire data. Signi...

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

Turnover intentions in a call center: The role of emotional dissonance, job resources, and job satisfaction

BACKGROUND Turnover intentions refer to employees' intent to leave the organization and, within call centers, it can be influenced by factors such as relational variables or the perception of the quality of working life, which can be affected by emotional dissonance. This specific job demand to express emotions not felt is peculiar in call centers, and can influence job satisfaction and turnove...