Work and Non-Work Antecedents of Turnover Intention: Job Satisfaction and Job Embeddedness Moderated by Alternative Job Opportunities in the Biotech Industry
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2022-06-29
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Voluntary turnover (an employee choosing to leave their job at an organization) is expensive and consumes a lot of organizational conversation and planning, making it a large burden for many organizations. This burden is understood by many organizations but is especially felt by business sectors that require highly educated and specially trained individuals, like the biotechnology industry. While turnover is commonly researched, we still do not have a full view of what factors are associated with increased turnover intention. In this study, we sought to understand several relationships between various antecedents of turnover in turnover research: job satisfaction, job embeddedness, and alternative job opportunities. Focusing specifically on employees working in the biotechnology industry, we distributed an online, self-report questionnaire with questions regarding their level of job satisfaction, community and organizational embeddedness, and their perception of alternative job opportunities available to them. We sought to determine if turnover was lowered in the presence of higher levels of job satisfaction and community and organizational embeddedness, and if the presence of alternative job opportunities moderated these relationships. Our results displayed no moderating role of alternative job opportunities. However, our findings did confirm a significant association between high job satisfaction and lowered turnover intention. Organizations should continue to focus on determinants of job satisfaction and make it a high priority that their employees are satisfied with their job to successfully retain them.
Keywords: job satisfaction, job embeddedness, community embeddedness, organizational embeddedness, alternative job opportunities, turnover intention, biotechnology industry
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