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How psychosocial indicators push millennials to intend leaving their job: a study of generational differences in Iranian organizations

Nowadays, high voluntary turnover intention among Millennials has presented new challenges for organizations although it is unclear how the tendency to leave the organization has varied across generations and is significantly dominant among Millennials. This study aims to examine the effect of psyc...

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Main Authors: Sahraee, Rezvan, Abdullah, Haslinda, Bagherian, Fatemeh
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Published: University of Tehran, College of Farabi 2021
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spelling my.upm.eprints.975592022-07-27T03:01:58Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/97559/ How psychosocial indicators push millennials to intend leaving their job: a study of generational differences in Iranian organizations Sahraee, Rezvan Abdullah, Haslinda Bagherian, Fatemeh Nowadays, high voluntary turnover intention among Millennials has presented new challenges for organizations although it is unclear how the tendency to leave the organization has varied across generations and is significantly dominant among Millennials. This study aims to examine the effect of psychosocial factors including value, attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control on turnover intention, and specifically targets Iranian generations since they have been studied less in the workplace. The current study employed a descriptive cross-sectional survey procedure and randomly sampled 498 full-time workers from a large automotive company in Tehran. The direct assessment of the association between variables showed that extrinsic value has a significant and positive effect on turnover intention while the intrinsic value is not significantly associated with turnover intention. However, indirectly, intrinsic value orientation significantly contributes to a low turnover intention through the mediating effect of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control, and extrinsic value is related to a high turnover intention through attitude and subjective norm but not through perceived behavioral control. Eventually, multi-group analysis revealed that the strength and direction of the relationship between value and turnover intention differ depending on generational cohorts in an Iranian social context. University of Tehran, College of Farabi 2021 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/97559/1/ABSTRACT.pdf Sahraee, Rezvan and Abdullah, Haslinda and Bagherian, Fatemeh (2021) How psychosocial indicators push millennials to intend leaving their job: a study of generational differences in Iranian organizations. Iranian journal of Management Studies, 14 (4). 681 - 698. ISSN 2345-3745 https://atif.sobiad.com/istatistik/index.jsp?modul=makale-detay&Alan=sosyal&Id=Eol7VXwBYbO9RkQmWjYI
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description Nowadays, high voluntary turnover intention among Millennials has presented new challenges for organizations although it is unclear how the tendency to leave the organization has varied across generations and is significantly dominant among Millennials. This study aims to examine the effect of psychosocial factors including value, attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control on turnover intention, and specifically targets Iranian generations since they have been studied less in the workplace. The current study employed a descriptive cross-sectional survey procedure and randomly sampled 498 full-time workers from a large automotive company in Tehran. The direct assessment of the association between variables showed that extrinsic value has a significant and positive effect on turnover intention while the intrinsic value is not significantly associated with turnover intention. However, indirectly, intrinsic value orientation significantly contributes to a low turnover intention through the mediating effect of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control, and extrinsic value is related to a high turnover intention through attitude and subjective norm but not through perceived behavioral control. Eventually, multi-group analysis revealed that the strength and direction of the relationship between value and turnover intention differ depending on generational cohorts in an Iranian social context.
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author Sahraee, Rezvan
Abdullah, Haslinda
Bagherian, Fatemeh
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How psychosocial indicators push millennials to intend leaving their job: a study of generational differences in Iranian organizations
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Abdullah, Haslinda
Bagherian, Fatemeh
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title How psychosocial indicators push millennials to intend leaving their job: a study of generational differences in Iranian organizations
title_short How psychosocial indicators push millennials to intend leaving their job: a study of generational differences in Iranian organizations
title_full How psychosocial indicators push millennials to intend leaving their job: a study of generational differences in Iranian organizations
title_fullStr How psychosocial indicators push millennials to intend leaving their job: a study of generational differences in Iranian organizations
title_full_unstemmed How psychosocial indicators push millennials to intend leaving their job: a study of generational differences in Iranian organizations
title_sort how psychosocial indicators push millennials to intend leaving their job: a study of generational differences in iranian organizations
publisher University of Tehran, College of Farabi
publishDate 2021
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