title: Examining the job search-turnover relationship: the role of embeddedness, job satisfaction, and available alternatives.
abstract: This study examined factors that may help explain under what conditions employee job search effort may most strongly (or weakly) predict subsequent turnover. As predicted, the job search-turnover relationship was stronger when employees had lower levels of job embeddedness and job satisfaction and higher levels of available alternatives. These findings suggest that there may be a number of factors interacting to influence employees' turnover decisions, indicating greater complexity to the process than described in prominent sequential turnover models.
authors.affiliation: Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, 4221 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4221, USA. bswider@mays.tamu.edu
authors.forename: Brian W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Swider
authors.forename: Wendy R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Boswell
authors.forename: Ryan D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002321:Career Choice; D002322:Career Mobility; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D010563:Personnel Turnover / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015206:Southwestern United States; D014495:Universities