Many local self-support centers operating workfare-program as public assistance in Korea suffer from high level of voluntary employee turnover intention. Unfortunately, these high level can lead to substantial negative consequences for organizations a...
Many local self-support centers operating workfare-program as public assistance in Korea suffer from high level of voluntary employee turnover intention. Unfortunately, these high level can lead to substantial negative consequences for organizations and the overall area of self-support program. A lot of treatises in the area of employee retention, concluded that there are many costs associated with employee turnover that are not necessarily considered by the organization, but that can really affect the organization's bottom line. Besides the costs associated with actual separation of the employee and recruiting, hiring, and training of new employees, other costs may not be easy to measure. These additional costs due to voluntary turnover and a loss of employees' specialty may result in a reduction in quality of service given to clients(workfare-related in the National Basic Living Security law in Korea), a tendency for remaining employees to quit as well, a lack of talented employees who could become future leaders of the organization, and finally, a failure of the self-support program as a social-safety net in Korea. Turnover management and Employee retention strategy have been traditionally studied based on tree aspects of on-the job attitude(job satisfaction, organization commitment, career commitment). However, there have been recent studies indicating that analyzing on-the job attitude was not appropriate for finding turnover cause, calling for a more adequate means of controlling and managing turnover. Lee & Mitchell and other researchers recently began using job embeddedness as a new concept. Job embeddedness is categorized into three dimensions of fit, link and sacrifice. They assert that job embeddedness is more effective predictors of why employees decide to quit or stay their jobs and organizations. The objectives of this study are first, demonstratively examining the statistically significant difference between demographic attributes and turnover intention, and second, testing correlation and the causal relationship between on the-job related variables of job satisfaction, organization commitment, career commitment and turnover intention, and third, analyzing moderation effect of job embeddedness using the structural equations modeling with Lisrel program between on the-job factors and turnover intention, and fourth, proposing suggestions for effective employee retention and employee professionalism improving strategies for the level of the local self-support center and the governance.
To accomplish these objectives of this study, to verify presented hypotheses of this study, researcher analyzed a total of 518 data gathered from the employees of the local self-support centers working at Seoul, Daegu, Incheon, Ulsan, Gyeonggi-Do, Chungcheongnam-do, Jeollanam-do, Gyeongsangnam-do. Over 700 surveys were delivered to 143 local self-support center, 518 questionnaires were completed by participants, and 513 surveys were available. A response rate of 74.0% was obtained with 5 samples of the surveys being unusable. Participants included 178 males, 335 females. Approximately 56.8%(290) of the respondents were married, 19.6%(100) had an turnover experience. The percentage of participants who fell into the different categories for age included: 27.8%(139) in the 20 to 29 age group; 41.6%(208) in the 30 to 39 age group; 26.8%(134) in the 40 to 49 age group; 3.8%(19) in the over 50 age group. Over 84.9% of the respondents had continued with their education after graduating from junior vocational college. Mean total length of employment at local self-support center was 2.79 year. The percentage of participants who fell into the different categories for employment status included: 63.7%(323) in the regular worker group; 36.3% in the irregular worker group. The percentage of participants who fell into the different categories for center location status included: 40.4%(207) in the metropolitan city area group; 32.0%(164) in the urban area group; 27.7%(142) in the rural area group. The percentage of participants who fell into the different categories for total yearly salary included: 40.1%(204) in the below 15,000,000won group; 54.8%(279) in the 15,000,000 to 25,000,000won group; 5.1%(26) in the over 25,000,000won group.
Measures, Factor analysis and Reliability analysis of each Variable are as follows.
1. According to the purpose of this research, 'turnover intention as a dependent' is defined "as an employees decision to leave an organization(local self-support center) voluntarily". Turnover intention was measured using the Molbey(1977)'s questionnaire with a Likert 5 point scale(1=very strong disagree~5=very strongly agree) modified relevantly by researcher. The Cronbach reliabilities coefficient for this scale consisting of six items was 0.892. The general score of turnover intention is 2.85.
2. Job Satisfaction is a subjective emotional evaluation made consciously or unconsciously by the employee and is defined as "a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job or job experiences, job satisfaction is multidimensional in nature with specific facets; satisfaction with pay, supervisor, co-workers, promotion. Job satisfaction was measured using the JDI questionnaire with a Likert 5 point scale(1=very strong disagree~5=very strongly agree) modified relevantly by researcher. The Cronbach reliabilities for these four scales(pay, supervisor, co-workers, promotion) are 0.87, 090, 0.85 and 0.83 respectively. The score of each scale is 2.13, 3.80, 3.62 and 3.02 respectively.
3. Definition of organizational commitment is Mowday, Porter & Steers' conceptualized commitment having three interwoven attitudes and intentions, first is belief and acceptance in an organization's goals and values, second is willingness to exert effort on behalf of the organization, and third is a desire to remain a member of the organization. Organization commitment was measured using