Mediating role of work engagement between perceived supervisor support, career possibilities, learning opportunities, remuneration and intention to stay
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2020-07-02
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Retention
of employees is very important for organizations to prevent employee shortages and to
save costs for newly hiring personnel. Research has shown that job resources like supervisor support
have an effect on the intention to stay. Therefore, t he aim of the study was to investigate the
mediating role of work engagement between job resources and the intention to stay in an
organization. Based on the literature, the JDR model was used as a basis Further more work
engagement was hypothesized as the mediator between job resources and intention to stay. Data was
collected by means of a questionnaire and distributed on a voluntary basis in a pharmaceutical
corporate organization a mong ( apprentices in this organization. The study sample consisted
of 108 employees of six apprenticeship programs from the organization. These included technicians,
warehouse logistics, wholesale and foreign trade and IT specialists. The results s howed that work
engagement acts as a mediator between perceived supervisor support and intention to stay and career
possibilities. Learning opportunities is associated significantly with intention to stay whereas
r emuneration is not associated significantl y with intention to stay. Previous research found several
significant effects. A limitation of the study was that it was a non experimen tal study and therefore
no conclusions can be drawn about causal relationships. An implication is to pay more attention on
learning opportunities and work engagement with regard to retention of employees.
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JDR model, retention of apprentices, work engagement
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen