Title
De relatie tussen baanontevredenheid en vertrekintenties: maakt opleiding een verschil?
Author
Dorenbosch, L.
Huiskamp, R.
Smulders, P.G.W.
Publication year
2011
Abstract
This article poses that educational background matters in the relationship between job dissatisfaction and turnover intentions. The first part of this cross-sectional study (N=15,661) examines to what extent work dissatisfiers differentiate between employees with a different educational background because of differences in work values. In the second part, the possible differences in the manifestation of turnover intentions between lower- and higher-educated employees are examined. Here, we report the results of a study including 13.528 Dutch employees. The results of two different analyses indicate that for lower-educated employees a lack of extrinsic work characteristics relates stronger to job dissatisfaction than for the higher-educated employees for whom the lack of intrinsic work characteristics is a more salient work dissatisfier. In reaction to job dissatisfaction this study shows that dissatisfied higher-educated workers show more search behaviour than dissatisfied lower-educated workers. The results provide insight in a process in which lower-educated workers run a higher risk of getting stuck in a job that for their own reasons does not fit (anymore).
Subject
Behavioural and Societal Sciences
Organisation
Workplace
PSC - Participation & Social Cohesion WH - Work & Health
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TNO identifier
430755
Source
Tijdschrift voor arbeidsvraagstukken, 27 (27), 77-93
Document type
article