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Turnover. By: Kim Mai, Andrea Thomas, Guang Wu. Article title & authors. Psychological capital: a positive resource for combating employee stress and turnover Author James B. Avey , Fred Luthans , and Susan M. Jensen. Key terms. Psychological Capital Efficacy Optimism Hope resilience
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Turnover By: Kim Mai, Andrea Thomas, Guang Wu
Article title & authors • Psychological capital: a positive resource for combating employee stress and turnover • Author James B. Avey, Fred Luthans, and Susan M. Jensen
Key terms • Psychological Capital • Efficacy • Optimism • Hope • resilience • Stress • Turnover intentions
Hypothesis • The role that psychology capital may play in both intentions to quit and job search behavior
Sample • 416 working adults from a wide variety of jobs and industries
Take home message • Train managers to implement stress management • Provide options for employees to relieve stress such as: wellness facility and counseling • Implement psychological capital to increase positive work environment/ decrease stress
Article title & Author • The Impact of Motivation, Empowerment, and Skill-Enhancing Practices on Aggregate Voluntary Turnover: The Mediating Effect of Collective Affective Commitment • Authors Timothy M. Gardner, Patrick M. Wright, Lisa M. Moynihan
Key Terms • Motivation: Practices that motivate employee effort and behavior. • Empowerment: Practices that provide opportunities for employees to contribute to organizational objectives. • Collective affective commitment: feeling of loyalty and a desire to invest mental and physical energy in helping the organization achieve its goals.
Hypothesis • Collective affective commitment can have a negative or positive linkage with HR practices and aggregate voluntary turnover.
Sample • 20 top HR Manager surveys • 1,748 employees • 93 different countries
Take Home Message • Companies should mold their HR practices to focus on motivation, empowerment, and skill-enhancing for the employees • Managers must implement these new practices in order to avoid aggregate voluntary turnover • Employees must be willing to obtain a collective affective commitment to these new practices
Article Title & Author • Understanding The Impact of PersonalityTraits on Individuals’ TurnoverDecisions: A Meta-Analytic Path Model • By Ryan D. Zimmerman Texas A & M University
Key Terms • FFM (Five-Factor Model) • Conscientiousness • Extraversion • Emotional Stability • Agreeableness • Openness to Experience
Hypothesis • Conscientiousness will be negatively related to intent to quit and turnover • Emotional Stability will be negatively related to intent to quit and turnover
Take Home Message • Add personality test into the selection process • Monitoring employee emotional stability
Group take home message • HR managers should confront the issue of turnover through the implementation of stress management, personality tests, and the remolding of HR practices, which will lead to the empowerment of their employees and less turnover