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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Felps, Will; Mitchell, Terence R.; Hekman, David R.; Lee, Thomas W.; Holtom, Brooks C.; Harman, Wendy S.
• 署名单位: Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Georgetown University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2009.41331075
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 545-561
• 关键词: PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT; VOLUNTARY TURNOVER; EMPLOYEE TURNOVER; MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONSTRUCTS; COMMUNICATION-NETWORKS; attitudes; MODEL; conceptualizations; satisfaction; PERSPECTIVE

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.