Antecedents to Retention and Turnover among Child Welfare, Social Work, and Other Human Service Employees: What Can We Learn from Past Research? A Review and Metanalysis

Jan A. Nissly

1,006 citations0/0 files storedSocial Service Review

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Social Work Education and Practice Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Stress and Burnout Research

Abstract

This study involves a metanalysis of 25 articles concerning the relationship between demographic variables, personal perceptions, and organizational conditions and either turnover or intention to leave. It finds that burnout, job dissatisfaction, availability of employment alternatives, low organizational and professional commitment, stress, and lack of social support are the strongest predictors of turnover or intention to leave. Since the major predictors of leaving are not personal or related to the balance between work and family but are organizational or job‐based, there might be a great deal that both managers and policy makers can do to prevent turnover.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 1,006 citations exist upstream.

References

1966Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.1979The measurement of organizational commitment 1996Maslach burnout inventory manual 2015Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings 1970Role Conflict and Ambiguity in Complex Organizations 1994Meta-Analytic Procedures for Social Research.1993JOB SATISFACTION, ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT, TURNOVER INTENTION, AND TURNOVER: PATH ANALYSES BASED ON META‐ANALYTIC FINDINGS 1982Meta-analysis in social research

Cited by

2008Burnout and Turnover Intention Among Social Workers: Effects of Role Stress, Job Autonomy and Social Support 2014Resilience and Burnout in Child Protection Social Work: Individual and Organisational Themes from a Systematic Literature Review 2007The Motivation and Bias of Bureaucrats 2007The Ties that Bind: Social Networks, Person-Organization Value Fit, and Turnover Intention 2012How and When Does Customer Orientation Influence Frontline Employee Job Outcomes? A Meta-Analytic Evaluation

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.