Theory-driven development of a comprehensive turnover-attachment motive survey
✍ Scribed by Carl P. Maertz Jr.; Scott L. Boyar
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4848
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✦ Synopsis
Recent studies propose a theoretical framework of "eight forces" that purportedly captures all the distinct motives causing voluntary turnover decisions. Based on this framework, we develop the Turnover-Attachment Motive Survey (TAMS) consisting of 18 scales, the most comprehensive model-based turnover antecedent survey to date, facilitating more fully specifi ed research models and more systematic diagnoses of turnover causes. Moreover, fi ndings support behavioral inertia against quitting, psychological dissonance costs of quitting, supervisor continuance attachment, and coworker continuance attachment as signifi cant predictors of turnover behavior for the fi rst time in the literature. Overall, fi ndings do suggest that our 18-scale survey demonstrated adequate psychometric properties to justify its further use and development. We fi nally discuss the many uses of the TAMS for both turnover researchers and practitioners.