The Influence of Task and Personality Characteristics on Employee Turnover and Absenteeism Incidents

摘要

This study examined relationships among perceived job scope, employee need strengths, and turnover and absenteeism incidents among a sample of employees in state and county government. Perceived job scope was negatively related to both turnover and absenteeism. While the needs for achievement and autonomy were both found to have a direct relationship to turnover, job scope and both need strength measures interacted in influencing absenteeism. As predicted absenteeism decreased for employees with a high need for autonomy as job scope increased. Contrary to predictions, absenteeism increased for employees with a high need for achievement as job scope increased. The addition of a squared job scope term to each of the analyses significantly increased explained variance and thus suggests that relationship between job scope and employee withdrawal behaviors may be curvilinear. (Author)