Intention to Leave a Job: The Role of Individual Factors, Job Tension, and Supervisory Support

Fakunmoju, Sunday B.; Woodruff, Kristen; Kim, Hae Hung; LeFevre, Ann L.; Hong, Michin

doi:10.1080/03643107.2010.500948

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“…At most, material interest serves as a control variable. For the few empirical studies that take material interest into account, the effects of material interest are mixed, with some studies finding a significant relationship between material interest and employee’s intentions to leave organizations (Dickinson & Perry, 2002; Fakunmoju et al., 2010; Kim & Stoner, 2008) and some failing to reach the same result (Cohen-Callow et al., 2009; Hopkins et al., 2010).…”

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Will material interest make social workers quit their job? A meta-analysis

Luo

Chui

2018

Journal of Social Work

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Summary The academia and the profession have long overlooked the importance of material interest in the profession of social work. In order to address this research gap, we first reviewed the historical role that material interest has played in differentiating professions from nonprofessions and analyzed its decreasing status along the development of professions due to the two competing discourses of professionalization and de-professionalization. We concluded with the fundamental question, “does material interest still matter for the professions under the current professional environments,” and answered this question by purposively selecting one of the most important organizational outcomes of the social work workplace—turnover intentions—as our dependent variable. We then conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the relationship between salary and turnover on 24 studies with a combined sample of 9343 social workers. Findings The results showed that salary was negatively related to social workers’ intentions to leave organizations (r = −.18, ρ = −.21). Specifically, both social workers’ actual salary and their satisfaction with pay and benefits were negatively associated with individual employees’ turnover intentions. Applications This research also supported Barth’s argument that despite social workers’ earnings are “unresponsive” to the labor market, they are not so different from other professions in the workforce market. Research implications both for the third model of the profession—institutionalist professionalism—in contemporary society and for salary raises were discussed.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Will material interest make social workers quit their job? A meta-analysis

Luo

Chui

2018

Journal of Social Work

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“…Negative organizational behavior attitudes arise in employees who are not supported by their supervisor (Ng and Feldman, 2012;Fakunmoju et al, 2010). Positive organizational behaviors consist in employees receiving supervisor support (Turgut, 2011;Goh et al, 2015;Stinglhamber and Vandenberghe, 2003).…”

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The relationship between perceived manager support and work commitments of sports instructors

Malkoç¹,

Dal²

2020

Educ. Res. Rev.

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The aim of this study is to investigate the perceived role of supervisor support in predicting the work engagement levels of instructors working in sports venues. Sample of this study consists of a total of 254 instructors, 88 males and 166 females, age ranged 22 to 63, and working in various sports venues. Personal information form, perceived supervisor support and work engagement scale applied to the individuals in the sample group. This study was designed based on the screening model. To compare variables in the data obtained from the questionnaires applied on trainers, percentage, frequency, correlation, regression, t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used. In accordance with the analysis result, supervisor support was found to be an effective factor on work engagement. The results of the research revealed that the perceived supervisor support decreased as the trainers' level of education increased. However, it has been found that female trainers benefit from supervisor support in the workplace more than men and focus more on their jobs.

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“…These controls were used because there is research that has demonstrated connections between satisfaction with pay (Pakunmoju, Woodruff, Kim, LeFevre, & Hong, 2010) and turnover intention. Length of time worked at the institution, along with academic rank, represent to an employee an "investment" in the organization.…”

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“…Organizational change and mergers can also be related to employee turnover intention. An employee’s decision to leave a position is usually not spontaneous but results from a process that begins with thinking about leaving, or turnover intention (Fakunmoju, Woodruff, Kim, LeFevre, & Hong, 2010). A number of factors are known to be related to turnover intention.…”

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Ribando

Evans

2014

Public Personnel Management

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Mergers and acquisitions more commonly occur in the business and commercial domain, so details and data specific to the education arena are limited. In particular, very little quantitative research examines the sociocultural aspects of consolidating postsecondary educational institutions. This research intends to add to the literature with the initial results of a 5-year study examining the consolidation of a high-status, research-focused, health-oriented institution with a low-status, teaching-oriented, liberal arts college, each with quite different organizational cultures. Our findings show that consolidation increased stress levels and decreased levels of personorganization fit (PO fit) resulting in increases in turnover intention among all faculty members. As expected, moreover, the negative impact was much stronger among the liberal arts faculty than the health faculty.

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Intention to Leave a Job: The Role of Individual Factors, Job Tension, and Supervisory Support

Cited by 36 publications

References 33 publications

Will material interest make social workers quit their job? A meta-analysis

Will material interest make social workers quit their job? A meta-analysis

The relationship between perceived manager support and work commitments of sports instructors

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