MODELING EMPLOYEE WITHDRAWAL BEHAVIOR OVER TIME - A STUDY OF TURNOVERUSING SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

Survival analysis techniques were used to test a model of turnover wit h a sample of 244 staff nurses. Estimates of survival and hazard funct ions indicated that withdrawal was not uniform over time, bur rather o ccurred in distinct waves. Formal hypotheses were tested with a regres sion analogue of survival analysis, proportional hazards regression, a nd provided little support for a reasoned action model of turnover. Sp ecifically, job satisfaction emerged as predictive of turnover while j ob search behaviour did not. Results from OLS and logistic regressions were consistent with prior research findings in thar job search behav iour was a strong influence of employee turnover. Implications of thes e findings and directions for future research are discussed.