TURNOVER CONTAGION: HOW COWORKERS' JOB EMBEDDEDNESS AND JOB SEARCH BEHAVIORS INFLUENCE QUITTING

被引:370
作者
Felps, Will [1 ]
Mitchell, Terence R. [2 ]
Hekman, David R. [3 ]
Lee, Thomas W. [2 ]
Holtom, Brooks C. [4 ]
Harman, Wendy S. [5 ]
机构
[1] Erasmus Univ, Rotterdam Sch Management, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands
[2] Univ Washington, Foster Sch Business, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[3] Univ Wisconsin Milwaukee, Lubar Sch Business, Milwaukee, WI USA
[4] Georgetown Univ, McDonough Sch Business, Washington, DC 20057 USA
[5] Cent Washington Univ, Washington, DC USA
关键词
PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT; VOLUNTARY TURNOVER; EMPLOYEE TURNOVER; MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONSTRUCTS; COMMUNICATION-NETWORKS; ATTITUDES; MODEL; CONCEPTUALIZATIONS; SATISFACTION; PERSPECTIVE;
D O I
10.5465/AMJ.2009.41331075
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This research developed and tested a model of turnover contagion in which the job embeddedness and job search behaviors of coworkers influence employees' decisions to quit. In a sample of 45 branches of a regional bank and 1,038 departments of a national hospitality firm, multilevel analysis revealed that coworkers' job embeddedness and job search behaviors explain variance in individual "voluntary turnover" over and above that explained by other individual and group-level predictors. Broadly speaking, these results suggest that coworkers' job embeddedness and job search behaviors play critical roles in explaining why people quit their jobs. Implications are discussed.
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页码:545 / 561
页数:17
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