An evaluation of precursors of hospital employee turnover.
1978/01/01 by William H. Mobley, Stanley O. Horner, A. T. Hollingsworth · 1,646 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Health Professions · Psychology · #Applied psychology #Economics #Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout #Human Resource and Talent Management #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Job satisfaction #Management #Psychology #Social psychology #Turnover
paper · doi:10.1037/0021-9010.63.4.408
published in Journal of Applied Psychology 63(4), 408-414 (American Psychological Association)
openalex publication_date 1978/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract
To evaluate a heuristic model of employee turnover, survey data were collected from 203 hospital employees. The questionnaire included measures of general and job facet satisfaction, thoughts about quitting, the intention to quit, the perceived probability of finding another job, and biographical in
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