Job Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being as Nonadditive Predictors of Workplace Turnover

Data from a 2-year field study were used to examine the relationships among psychological well-being, job satisfaction, and employee job performance with employee turnover. Using a sample of 112 managers employed at a large organization on the West Coast of the United States, and controlling for emp...

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Published in:Journal of management 2007-04, Vol.33 (2), p.141-160
Main Authors: Wright, Thomas A., Bonett, Douglas G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ethnicity
Job performance
Job satisfaction
Psychological well being
Workplaces
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Summary:Data from a 2-year field study were used to examine the relationships among psychological well-being, job satisfaction, and employee job performance with employee turnover. Using a sample of 112 managers employed at a large organization on the West Coast of the United States, and controlling for employee age, gender, ethnicity, and job performance, well-being and job satisfaction were found to predict turnover in a nonadditive manner. As expected, well-being was found to moderate the relation between job satisfaction and job separation, such that job satisfaction was most strongly (and negatively) related to turnover when well-being was low.
ISSN:0149-2063
1557-1211
DOI:10.1177/0149206306297582