Gj. Udo et al., AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ANTECEDENTS OF TURNOVER INTENTION FOR MANUFACTURING PLANT MANAGERS, International journal of operations & production management, 17(9-10), 1997, pp. 912
Shows how a survey of 216 plant managers is used to develop and test a
n integrated model of their turnover intentions. The model incorporate
s role stressors, task characteristics, job involvement, job satisfact
ion, and organizational commitment as predictors of intention to stay
in the organization. The results provide moderate support for the prop
osed model and show that organizational commitment had a direct and po
sitive effect on plant managers' intention to stay with their organiza
tion. Indirect effects on intention to slay were found for job satisfa
ction, job involvement, task characteristics and role stressors. Resul
ts show that job satisfaction is considered the most important factor
directly affecting organizational commitment, while job involvement al
so had a direct effect on organizational commitment. Role stressors we
re found to be the most disfunctional variables affecting satisfaction
of the plant managers. The results also indicated that task character
istics play an important role in predicting job satisfaction, organiza
tional commitment, and intention to stay. Presents implications for to
p management to improve job satisfaction, organization commitment and
retention of plant managers.