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Job embeddedness theory : can it help explain employee retention?.

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Jeffery Young

Publication year - 2012

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Dissertations/theses

DOI - 10.18297/etd/1625

Subject(s) - job embeddedness , embeddedness , construct (python library) , population , psychology , sample (material) , variance (accounting) , social psychology , applied psychology , marketing , sociology , business , social science , computer science , demography , chemistry , accounting , chromatography , programming language

The study reported here examined Job Embeddedness theory, as introduced by Mitchell, Holtom, Lee, Sablynski, and Erez (2001), which offers a method of discovering why people stay in an organization. Extension agents in two states (N=454) reported significantly different levels of job embeddedness during the study period. Regression analyses showed that job embeddedness was significantly correlated with and predicted unique variance in intent to stay.

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