A review and meta-analysis of research on the relationship between behavioral intentions and employee turnover.

✍ Scribed by Steel, Robert P.; Ovalle, Nestor K.

• Book ID: 125417961
• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 976 KB
• Volume: 69
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.69.4.673

✦ Synopsis

Behavioral intentions have an expanding role in the field of turnover research They are becoming increasingly indispensable to empirical and theoretical work linking turnover behavior to psychological antecedents A literature review of published and unpublished works was undertaken to examine the magnitude and consistency of intent-turnover relationships. Meta-analysis was used to cumulate and average results over studies A weighted average correlation of 50 was calculated between behavioral intentions and employee turnover Intentions were more predictive of attrition than overall job satisfaction, satisfaction with the work itself, or organizational commitment Furthermore, an analysis of potential moderator variables indicated that the length of time between procurement of predictor and criterion data influences the magnitude of intent-turnover relationships Behavioral intentions have rapidly come into vogue in the field of turnover research Prior to 1974, few published references to behavioral intentions existed in industrial and organizational psychology research do-