The Impact of Anglo and Hispanic Ethnicity, Gender, Position, Personality and Job Satisfaction on Turnover Intentions: A Path Analytic Investigation

Predicting Work Attitudes and Turnover Intentions Among Officers: The Importance of Adlerian Personality Attributes

“…These work-related attitudes have been found to be associated with job performance (Wood and Beckmann, 2006;Barrick and Mount, 2005;Woodardet al, 1994), intention to quit a job (Labatmediene et al, 2007;Mynatt et al, 1997) as well as increased job productivity (Baard et al, 2004). These work attitudes, as it relates to the present study, have been found to be associated with turnover among correctional officers (Dowden and Tellier, 2004;Byrd et al, 2000;Wright, 1993).…”

“…Yali et al (2004) revealed that personal-organizational fit and extraversion are the most significant indicators for job performance among sales people. Mynatt et al (1997) detected the expected relationship between Type A personality and level of job satisfaction. In the research by Judge et al (2000) self-evaluations measured in childhood and in early adulthood were linked to job satisfaction.…”

“…Bowling (2007) questioned the predictive value of job satisfactions to performance, but proposed that employee personality may be of more benefit to explore related to work performance. Significant relation between personality and performance was found in studies conducted by Tyler and Newcombe (1996) and Mynatt et al (1997). However Mynatt et al(1997) were not able to find a relationship between personality and turnover intentions.…”

“…Significant relation between personality and performance was found in studies conducted by Tyler and Newcombe (1996) and Mynatt et al (1997). However Mynatt et al(1997) were not able to find a relationship between personality and turnover intentions.…”

“…Nisan/April 2010 -Cilt/Vol: 12 -Sayı/Num: 02 (Labatmediene et al, 2007;Dowden and Tellier, 2004;Byrd et al, 2001;Byrd et al, 2000;Mynatt et al, 1997;Wright, 1993). Still only job satisfaction and organizational commitment had a predictive value to the officers' turnover intention, but not work motivation.…”