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Job characteristics as antecedents of intention to stay and mediating effects of work family facilitation and family satisfaction among single mothers in Malaysia

Employee turnover is crucial to be investigated since it diminishes organization effectiveness and impedes the capacity to meet its goals. This study was conducted to test the mediating effects of work-family facilitation and family satisfaction on the relationship between job characteristics, and i...

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Main Authors: Noraani Mustapha, Aminah Ahmad, Jegak Uli, Khairuddin Idris
Format: Non-Indexed Article
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7622/
http://www.ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol._1_No._3_December_2010/7.pdf
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spelling my.umk.eprints.76222022-05-23T10:21:17Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7622/ Job characteristics as antecedents of intention to stay and mediating effects of work family facilitation and family satisfaction among single mothers in Malaysia Noraani Mustapha Aminah Ahmad Jegak Uli Khairuddin Idris Employee turnover is crucial to be investigated since it diminishes organization effectiveness and impedes the capacity to meet its goals. This study was conducted to test the mediating effects of work-family facilitation and family satisfaction on the relationship between job characteristics, and intention to stay among 240 single mother employees in Malaysia. Data was collected using self-administered research questionnaire on simple randomized respondents whereby six out of 24 single mother associations were selected to obtain research samples. Descriptive statistical analysis was conducted to describe the respondents and Pearson Product Moment Correlation to determine the relationships among variables. Structural Equation Modeling using AMOS version 16.0 was utilized for model testing and to check the presence of mediation effects in the relationships between independent and dependent variables. The Soble’s z-test was used to test whether the mediators carry the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable. The findings indicated that single mothers have moderate levels of job characteristics in their lives, so as their levels of work-family facilitation, family satisfaction and intention to stay. There were positive and negative significant relationships among variables. The results also established the presence of mediation effects between the independent and dependent variables. Organizations may utilize work-family facilitation and family satisfaction as mechanisms to promote longer retention among employees. 2010-12 Non-Indexed Article NonPeerReviewed Noraani Mustapha and Aminah Ahmad and Jegak Uli and Khairuddin Idris (2010) Job characteristics as antecedents of intention to stay and mediating effects of work family facilitation and family satisfaction among single mothers in Malaysia. International Journal of Business and Social Science, 1 (3). pp. 59-74. ISSN 2219-6021 http://www.ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol._1_No._3_December_2010/7.pdf
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description Employee turnover is crucial to be investigated since it diminishes organization effectiveness and impedes the capacity to meet its goals. This study was conducted to test the mediating effects of work-family facilitation and family satisfaction on the relationship between job characteristics, and intention to stay among 240 single mother employees in Malaysia. Data was collected using self-administered research questionnaire on simple randomized respondents whereby six out of 24 single mother associations were selected to obtain research samples. Descriptive statistical analysis was conducted to describe the respondents and Pearson Product Moment Correlation to determine the relationships among variables. Structural Equation Modeling using AMOS version 16.0 was utilized for model testing and to check the presence of mediation effects in the relationships between independent and dependent variables. The Soble’s z-test was used to test whether the mediators carry the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable. The findings indicated that single mothers have moderate levels of job characteristics in their lives, so as their levels of work-family facilitation, family satisfaction and intention to stay. There were positive and negative significant relationships among variables. The results also established the presence of mediation effects between the independent and dependent variables. Organizations may utilize work-family facilitation and family satisfaction as mechanisms to promote longer retention among employees.
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author Noraani Mustapha
Aminah Ahmad
Jegak Uli
Khairuddin Idris
spellingShingle Noraani Mustapha
Aminah Ahmad
Jegak Uli
Khairuddin Idris
Job characteristics as antecedents of intention to stay and mediating effects of work family facilitation and family satisfaction among single mothers in Malaysia
author_facet Noraani Mustapha
Aminah Ahmad
Jegak Uli
Khairuddin Idris
author_sort Noraani Mustapha
title Job characteristics as antecedents of intention to stay and mediating effects of work family facilitation and family satisfaction among single mothers in Malaysia
title_short Job characteristics as antecedents of intention to stay and mediating effects of work family facilitation and family satisfaction among single mothers in Malaysia
title_full Job characteristics as antecedents of intention to stay and mediating effects of work family facilitation and family satisfaction among single mothers in Malaysia
title_fullStr Job characteristics as antecedents of intention to stay and mediating effects of work family facilitation and family satisfaction among single mothers in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Job characteristics as antecedents of intention to stay and mediating effects of work family facilitation and family satisfaction among single mothers in Malaysia
title_sort job characteristics as antecedents of intention to stay and mediating effects of work family facilitation and family satisfaction among single mothers in malaysia
publishDate 2010
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7622/
http://www.ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol._1_No._3_December_2010/7.pdf
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