DocumentCode :
3456761
Title :
Testing for Invariance of Employee Turnover Intention Model: Multi-Group Comparison Between Knowledge Workers and Traditional Staff
Author :
Wu Yang ; Yu Xiaomin ; Xu Congwei
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beihang Univ., Beijing
fYear :
2008
fDate :
12-14 Oct. 2008
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
4
Abstract :
Employee turnover is one of the most durable issues in both organizational behavior research and human resource management practice. Although a great deal of employee turnover models has been well established, much of these researches have not considered the differences between occupation groups. In an effort to fill this theoretical gap, the present study attempted to provide an examination of a turnover intention model and some of the predictors across two groups: knowledge workers and traditional staff, and then distinguished their different influencing mechanisms on employee turnover intention. This study used multi-group structural equation modeling techniques as a cross-validation procedure to investigate whether the proposed model remained stable across two samples. The empirical examination was also conducted. The results based on 606 employees´ responses from two occupational categories indicate that four antecedents are significantly associated with employee turnover intention mediated by job satisfaction and organizational commitment. This study finds the model with an adequate level of configural invariance across two groups. However, the corresponding regression weights are significantly different. The findings suggest that both researchers and practitioners should take into consideration not only the organizational factors, but also the occupational type while exploring the process of employee turnover.
Keywords :
job specification; knowledge management; organisational aspects; personnel; employee turnover intention model; human resource management practice; invariance testing; job satisfaction; knowledge worker; multigroup structural equation modeling technique; organizational behavior research; organizational commitment; traditional staff; Economic forecasting; Equations; Human resource management; Knowledge management; Medical services; Predictive models; Research and development management; Resource management; Technology management; Testing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2107-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2108-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.1708
Filename :
4679897
Link To Document :
بازگشت