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Eight Motivational Forces and Voluntary Turnover: A Theoretical Synthesis with Implications for Research
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The authors synthesize, from attitude and turnover literatures, a framework of eight distinctive motives, or "Forces", for turnover, and illustrate how the "8 Forces" framework can be utilized by turnover researchers as clarification of reported reasons for turnover and as causal mediators of turnover predictors.About:
This article is published in Journal of Management.The article was published on 2004-10-01. It has received 522 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Turnover & Employee motivation.read more
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High-Performance Human Resource Practices, Citizenship Behavior, and Organizational Performance: A Relational Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined processes (mediation and moderation) linking high-performance human resource practices and productivity and turnover, two indicators of organizational performance, taking a relational perspective on the employment relationship.
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5 Turnover and Retention Research: A Glance at the Past, a Closer Review of the Present, and a Venture into the Future
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the current state of the field of voluntary employee turnover in the past decade as well as new managerial approaches to employee retention, labor market dynamism, and evolution in research methodology and technology.
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The effects of perceived organizational support and perceived supervisor support on employee turnover.
TL;DR: This paper examined the mediated effects of perceived supervisor support (PSS) and perceived organizational support (POS) on turnover cognitions, and their interactive effects on turnover behavior in a sample of 225 social services workers.
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Careers: Mobility, Embeddedness, and Success:
TL;DR: The authors proposes refinements of the constructs of career mobility and career embeddedness and reviews the array of factors that have been found to energize (discourage) employees to change jobs, organizations, and/or occupations.
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Understanding the impact of personality traits on individuals' turnover decisions: a meta-analytic path model
TL;DR: The results of the meta-analysis show that personality traits do have an impact on individuals' turnover intentions and behaviors as discussed by the authors, whereas the traits of Conscientiousness and Agreeableness best predicted (negatively) actual turnover decisions.
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A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
TL;DR: Cognitive dissonance theory links actions and attitudes as discussed by the authors, which holds that dissonance is experienced whenever one cognition that a person holds follows from the opposite of at least one other cognition that the person holds.
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A three-component conceptualization of organizational commitment
John P. Meyer,Natalie J. Allen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors go beyond the existing distinction between attitudinal and behavioral commitment and argue that commitment, as a psychological state, has at least three separable components reflecting a desire (affective commitment), a need (continuance commitment), and an obligation (normative commitment) to maintain employment in an organization.
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The Measurement of Organizational Commitment.
TL;DR: The Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) as discussed by the authors ) is a measure of employee commitment to work organizations, developed by Porter and his colleagues, which is based on a series of studies among 2563 employees in nine divergent organizations.
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Commitment to organizations and occupations: Extension and test of a three-component conceptualization.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested the generalizability of J. P. Meyer and N. J. Allen's (1991) 3-component model of organizational commitment to the domain of occupational commitment.
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A Meta-Analysis of Antecedents and Correlates of Employee Turnover: Update, Moderator Tests, and Research Implications for the Next Millennium
TL;DR: This article conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of antecedent turnover antecedents, extending an earlier one by Hom and Griffeth (1995), and reported the results of this comprehensive meta analysis.