AIM This paper is a report of a study of (i) which variables are associated with the intention to leave the profession (ii) which variables are associated with the intention to leave the organization; and (iii) how the related variables differ between intentions in a secondary analysis of data of the German part of the European Nurses' Early Exit Study. BACKGROUND Nursing turnover research so...

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence in the interest in family size intentions and ideals in developed societies, partially stemming from the idea that realized fertility in these societies is lower than intended fertility. This paper addresses the question of the stability of family size intentions. Based on Heckhausen's life-span theory of control, it is hypothesized that young adults' fa...

We examined the emigration intentions of native-born Dutch residents and their subsequent emigration behaviour from 2005 to 2010. Data were collected from two surveys on emigration intentions, one conducted locally and one nationally. A number of novel results stand out. First, intentions were good predictors of future emigration: 34 per cent of those who had stated an intention to emigrate act...

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 ...

This study examines the dimensions of web service quality based on e-customer’s expectations and perceptions. We develop operationalized web service quality constructs, and analyze their relationships with customer satisfaction and behavioral intentions in an e-business environment. The three identified dimensions of web service quality are perceived risk, web content and service convenience. A...

This paper presents a study that determined the relationship of job characteristics and job satisfaction and turnover intentions and examined the contribution of demographic variables, job characteristics and job satisfaction on turnover intentions. The sample consisted of 292 IT staff in Telecom Malaysia (TM). The results hypothesized that job satisfaction and job characteristic factors are ne...

Being able to comprehend communicative intentions and to recognize whether such intentions are directed toward us or not is extremely important in social interaction. Two brain systems, the mentalizing and the mirror neuron system, have been proposed to underlie intention recognition. However, little is still known about how the systems cooperate within the process of communicative intention un...

The aim of this study is to see the effect of work overload that is a dilemma in almost every organizational sector to perform more activities at one time, consequence of this are in the form of increase in stress, turnover intentions, and lower job satisfaction. Islam, that pays high intention on employees at work setting. Islamic perspectives can control these problems i.e. turnover intention...

The recognition of user intentions is an important feature for humanoid robots to make implicit and human-like interactions possible. In this paper, we introduce a formal view on user-intentions in human-machine interaction and how they can be estimated by observing user actions. We use Hybrid Dynamic Bayesian Networks to develop a generic model that includes connections between intentions, act...