A case is described of a firm, which decided to develop a new IT system using a mixture of contract or outsourced workers and company employees. The company employees were placed in the key positions on the project so that outsourced workers were relegated to the technical jobs with no real prospect of promotion or development. These strategic choices set the context for the outsourcing process...

This study examines the influences of procedural justice on turnover intention and social loafing behavior among employees in hotel industry. Despite a growing body literature regarding relationship between organizational justice, loafing, there is limited published research influence with mediating effect intention. For this purpose, questionnaire was self-administered to working at different ...

The study was designed to examine the relationship of Pay Satisfaction, organizational commitment and perceived employment opportunities with Turnover intention and pay satisfaction with organization commitment. The instruments used to measure the variables of the study were Demographic Data Sheet and Pay Satisfaction scale, Organizational commitment scale and turnover intentions scale. The sam...

The present study explored the links of 2 workplace contextual variables--perceptions of workplace heterosexist discrimination and lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB)-supportive climates--with job satisfaction and turnover intentions in a sample of LGB employees. An extension of the theory of work adjustment (TWA) was used as the conceptual framework for the study; as such, perceived person-organi...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of prior absenteeism, demographic variables, and work attitudes (job satisfaction, perceptions of health, and work commitments forms) on absenteeism and turnover intentions. Design/methodology/approach – This study is a longitudinal survey. The questionnaire used established scales of the research instruments. The sample was composed ...

Perceived working conditions lead to various negative outcomes for employee behaviors, including turnover intentions. Although potential mediators for these relationships were previously identified, the importance of meaning of work has not yet been investigated. This study examines the role of this psychological resource as a mediator for the relationships between perceived working conditions ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relations among conflict management styles and target and instigator incivility and job performance, organizational commitment, and turnover intent. Data from 270 employees suggested that experiencing and instigating uncivil behavior occurred frequently. Using an integrative conflict management style was positively associated with job performance and...

Empirical evidence is scarce on chief executive officer (CEO) turnover in U.S. hospitals, with potentially serious implications for many of these organizations. This study, based on a nationwide survey of CEOs at non-federal general surgical and medical community hospitals conducted in the spring of 2004, reports the perceptions of hospital CEOs regarding the circumstances and impact of CEO tur...

This study aims to examine the influence of an organization’s missions on employees’ turnover intention in rarely studied context social enterprises. Data collected from 236 full-time employees working for enterprises South Korea indicated that negative relationship between mission and was mediated by meaning work; this mediation effect weaker when economic stronger. The contributes literature ...