title: The relationship between South Korean clinical nurses' attitudes toward organizations and voluntary turnover intention: A path analysis.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between attitudes toward their organizations and voluntary turnover intention among South Korean clinical nurses. Data from a total of 312 clinical nurses in six hospitals in South Korea were collected for the study. Both hierarchical multiple regression analysis and path analysis were used to analyse the data. The overall fit of the hypothetical model was good. Voluntary turnover intention was found to have significant direct pathways to job embeddedness and organizational commitment. Organizational commitment and satisfaction with organizational rewards had indirect pathways to voluntary turnover intention through job embeddedness. All variances explained 62.3% of the voluntary turnover intention scores. The findings suggest that greater job embeddedness, organizational commitment and satisfaction with organizational rewards lead to lower voluntary turnover intention among clinical nurses in South Korea.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Dankook University, Cheonan, South Korea.
authors.forename: Jong Kyung
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Science, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea.
authors.forename: Sun Ju
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D056910:Republic of Korea
keywords: attitudes; job embeddedness; nurses; organization; voluntary turnover intention