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Antecedents and Outcomes of Organizational Support for Development: The Critical Role of Career Opportunities
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This study found that participation in training classes, leader-member exchange, and career mentoring were each positively related to employees' perceptions of organizational support for development and found support for the moderator hypotheses.Abstract:
This study examines antecedents and behavioral outcomes of employees' perceptions of organizational support for development. We first propose that employees' past participation in formal developmental activities and experience with developmental relationships positively relate to their perceptions of organizational support for development. We then propose that perceived career opportunity within the organization moderates the relationship between organizational support for development and employee performance and turnover. Using a sample of 264 exempt-level employees and their supervisors, we found that participation in training classes, leader-member exchange, and career mentoring were each positively related to employees' perceptions of organizational support for development. We also found support for the moderator hypotheses. Specifically, development support positively related to job performance, but only when perceived career opportunity within the organization was high. Further, development support was associated with reduced voluntary turnover when perceived career opportunity was high, but it was associated with increased turnover when perceived career opportunity was low. Our study demonstrates that social exchange and career motivation theory work together to explain when and how employees' perceptions of organizational support for development relate to turnover and job performance.read more
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The learning coupon: the effect of peer and supervisors' participation on individual participation in an employer-sponsored professional development initiative.
TL;DR: The learning coupon program was initiated by Federal Student Aid (FSA), a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), to promote employee participation in lifelong learning and career development as mentioned in this paper.
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Impact of Effective Succession Planning Practices on Employee Retention: Exploring the Mediating Roles
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a model explaining the mediation effect of various factors on succession planning and employee retention and found that proper succession planning produces a positive effect on Performance Goal Orientation, Supervisor Support, Working Environment, Rewards, Work-life Policies, Career Development, and Job Security.
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Career Motivation, Mentoring Readiness, and Participation in Workplace Mentoring Programs: A Cross-Cultural Study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined participation in workplace mentoring programs in two cultural (individualistic and collectivistic) contexts and found that participants had different willingness to participate and intention to participate.
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The Impact of Staff Turnover on Organisational Performance : A Case of the Three Non-Profit Organisations in Verulam, Republic of South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of staff turnover on organisational performance through a case study of three non-profit organisations situated in Verulam, Durban, KwaZulu Natal Province, Republic of South Africa.
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The power of LinkedIn: how LinkedIn enables professionals to leave their organizations for professional advancement
Vincent Cho,Wing Lam +1 more
TL;DR: Self-determination theory is applied to investigate how motivations to participate in LinkedIn would influence a professional's intention to leave an organization for professional advancement (ILPA), which will have impacts on professionals' ILPA.
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Perceived organizational support.
TL;DR: In this paper, the coherence des croyances des employes dans l'implication de l'organisation a son egard et le role d'un tel soutien organisationnel ainsi que l'ideologie d'echange sur l'absenteisme is discussed.
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Perceived organizational support: A review of the literature.
Linda Rhoades,Robert Eisenberger +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed more than 70 studies concerning employees' general belief that their work organization values their contribution and cares about their well-being (perceived organizational support; POS) and indicated that 3 major categories of beneficial treatment received by employees were associated with POS.