When and how is job embeddedness predictive of turnover? A meta-analytic investigation.
verifiedmedium profile · Journal of Applied Psychology · 2012
Jiang, Kaifeng; Liu, Dong; McKay, Patrick F.; Lee, Thomas W.; Mitchell, Terence R.
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The present meta-analytic study introduces an overall model of the relationships between job embeddedness and turnover outcomes. Drawing on 65 independent samples (N = 42,907), we found that on-the-job and off-the-job embeddedness negatively related to turnover intentions and actual turnover, after controlling for job satisfaction, affective commitment, and job alternatives. In addition, the negative relationships between on-the-job embeddedness (off-the-job embeddedness) and turnover criteria were stronger in female-dominated samples and public organizations (collectivistic countries). Finally, turnover intentions, job search behavior, and job performance fully (partially) mediated the effect of on-the-job embeddedness (off-the-job embeddedness) on actual turnover. The research and practical implications of our findings are noted, in light of study limitations and future research needs.
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supports “Jiang et al. (2012) showed in their meta-analysis that organizational and community embeddedness both have a meaningful role in predicting intentions to quit (corrected weighted average correlations r Organization = − 0.48 and r Community = − 0.22), albeit community embeddedness to a lesser extent.”
supports “Research has highlighted the benefits of both forms of embeddedness in reducing turnover intentions (e.g., Allen et al., 2016; Coetzer et al., 2019; Jiang et al., 2012; Singh et al., 2021).”
supports “The expectation that the pattern of work-related behavior reflective of Quiet Quit-ting is likely to be positively associated with turnover intentions coincides with meta-analytic evidence of negative association between variables reflective of on-the-job embeddedness and turnover intentions [98].”
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