- Title
- Quality of work life and job embeddedness as predictors of turnover intentions among academic staff at selected Universities in the Eastern cape province of South Africa
- Creator
- Tendai , Tichangwa
- Subject
- Employee retention Organizational behavior Work -- Psychological aspects
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- D.Com (Industrial Psychology)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/19153
- Identifier
- vital:39873
- Description
- Rapid higher education change in South Africa has adversely affected academics job experiences, resulting in high academic staff turnover. Despite the extant literature on the impact of higher education change, few studies have assessed how higher education change has influenced academics‟ quality of work life (QWL), job embeddedness (JE) and intention to quit (ITQ). This study investigated academic staff QWL and JE as predictors of their ITQ. A sample of 250 teaching staff (n = 250) was selected from two universities in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa using quota sampling. Data were gathered using questionnaires and analysed using descriptive (frequency distributions and measures of central tendency and variability) and inferential (Pearson correlation, significance testing and regression analysis) statistical methods. The findings confirmed the hypothesised significant negative relationships of QWL and JE with ITQ. Partial evidence suggested that QWL and JE combined explained significantly more ITQ variance than both variables did separately. JE did not moderate the QWL-ITQ association, but explained substantially greater variance in ITQ than QWL did. The sample registered high QWL and moderate JE and ITQ levels. Acceptable instrument validity and reliability were reported. The findings suggest that intrainstitutional factors somewhat mitigate the adverse effects of higher education change on academics‟ QWL, JE and ITQ and a need to enhance JE aspects, in particular, to reduce academic staff turnover intentions and behaviour. Recommendations are offered for future policy, research and practice.
- Format
- 175 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management and Commerce
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Hits: 695
- Visitors: 727
- Downloads: 102
Collections
UFH Department of Industrial Psychology
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Details Download | SOURCE1 | TICHAGWA T_200703187 D COM INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY.pdf | 1 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |