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Why Do They Leave? The Mechanism Linking Employees’ Psychological Capital to Their Turnover Intention

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Abstract

In this study, the influence mechanism of psychological capital on employees’ turnover intention has been revealed by a moderated mediation model based on conservation of resource theory. 600 employees from seven branches of a high-tech corporation group located at Beijing and Hangzhou were involved in this survey. Regression analysis and moderated path analysis were adopted and the results show that: (a) psychological capital is negatively associated with employees’ turnover intention; (b) this association is fully mediated by role stress; and (c) organizational support moderates not only the influence of psychological capital on role stress, but also the mediating effect of role stress on the association between psychological capital and employees’ turnover intention. The results implicate that that employees’ psychological capital can decrease turnover intention by alleviating their role stress; meanwhile, organizational support positively exacerbates the decrease of psychological capital on turnover intention. Our results can provide guidance to improve human resource management practices for Chinese enterprises in future.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71302170; 71302119), and MOE (Minstry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (Project No. 13YJC630036).

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  1. School of Management, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100089, People’s Republic of China

    Chen Zhao

  2. College of Business Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, 100070, People’s Republic of China

    Zhonghua Gao

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  1. Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    Jiuping Xu

  2. Depart de Enge Mecânica e Industrial, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), Caparica, Portugal

    Virgílio António Cruz-Machado

  3. LeBow College of Business Department of Decision Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Benjamin Lev

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Zhao, C., Gao, Z. (2014). Why Do They Leave? The Mechanism Linking Employees’ Psychological Capital to Their Turnover Intention. In: Xu, J., Cruz-Machado, V., Lev, B., Nickel, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 281. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55122-2_80

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