Turnover factors revisited: A longitudinal study of Taiwan-based staff nurses
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What is already known about the topic?
Employee turnover is one of the most significant causes of declining productivity and sagging morale in both the public and private sectors. Experts estimate that the combined total of the three component costs of turnover (i.e. hiring, training, and reductions in productivity) can exceed 5% of the total annual operating budget. Previous studies showed that job satisfaction and intent to stay are widely regarded as key factors in determining the turnover amongst nurses. However, there appears
What this paper adds
The results of this study confirm earlier findings on the interrelationships among turnover determinants, job satisfaction, and intent to stay. Distributive justice, workload, resource inadequacy, supervisory support, kinship support, and job satisfaction are again proven to be highly associated with intent to stay. Nevertheless, with the exception of workload, they work poorly as predictors of actual turnover.
Furthermore, the results of this study suggest a more comprehensive selection of
Determinants of turnover
According to Price (1977), turnover is the movement of members across the boundary of an organization. Most research on turnover has explored voluntary or avoidable turnover, though there has been no systematic empirical evidence existing to support the hypothesized difference between voluntary and involuntary turnover due to the inaccuracy of organizational data (Hayes et al., 2006). There is a vast body of the nursing turnover literature linking job satisfaction, intent to stay and actual
Estimated nursing turnover model
Based on the previously reviewed literature, we tested the model of nursing turnover as illustrated in Fig. 1. Similar to most turnover research, attention was concentrated on the nurses voluntarily leaving the hospital. Ten determinants of turnover were considered in this study: job involvement, positive and negative affectivity, distributive justice, job stress, promotional chances, autonomy, routinization, social support, and pay. As derived from “Reflections on the determinants of voluntary
Site, subjects and procedure
In resemblance to western healthcare industries, Taiwan's healthcare institutions became fiercely competitive after the government implemented the National Health Insurance System in 1995. In addition, most of Taiwan's general hospitals are private, large-sized and located in metropolitan areas (Chu et al., 2003). The target hospital for this study was located in Taichung, Taiwan. With its 600 beds and metropolitan site, this private institution was a suitable representative of Taiwan's general
Results
Of the 412 registered staff nurses who were reached by the first-wave mailed questionnaire 308 (74.8%) responded. The information for actual turnover, as collected in the second-wave, divided the 308 first-wave respondents into 132 leavers (42.9%, coded as “1”) and 176 stayers (57.1%, coded as “0”). They were all females, mostly young (92.5% under the age of 30), short in tenure (96.8% had a tenure less than 5 years), and well-educated (96% had a college degree). This distribution very closely
Discussion and conclusion
Employee turnover is one of the most significant causes of declining productivity and sagging morale in both the public and private sectors (Abbasi and Hollman, 2000). The cost of nursing turnover eats away a hospital's efforts to implement efficient processes and improve patient care (Hayes et al., 2006). Experts estimate that of the three components of turnover costs, i.e. hiring, training, and reduced productivity costs, the magnitude of the turnover cost can climb to at least 5% of the
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