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An Empirical Study On The Turnover Intention Of Knowledge Workers

Posted on:2007-06-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Q WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2179360182961072Subject:Business management
Abstract/Summary:
With the further development of market economy in our country, the knowledge worker turnover is drawing more and more attention. However, few quantitative studies on knowledge worker turnover are found in the domestic literatures currently. This study is based on the existed studies about the intention of employee turnover. It gives a study on the features of knowledge workers, with the study of new variables including the Chinese context factors. It finally gives the model of Chinese knowledge workers turnover intention.The data of the empirical study is from the answers of a questionnaire put on the internet. The data is split into two parts by using the discriminate function of SPSS. A compare study is carried between the knowledge workers and non-knowledge workers on the influential factors of the intention of employee turnover.The result of this study shows that the model improved by this paper can explain the turnover intention of Chinese knowledge workers. The influence to the turnover intention is adjusted by the values of corresponding varies. The study gives the important influential factors to the turnover intention of Chinese knowledge workers.It also found that compared with non-knowledge workers, the influence of the variable transfer cost has more notable effect on the intention of knowledge worker turnover.According to the result of the analysis of the most important influential factor to the intention of knowledge workers, this paper gives some suggests on the methods of how to keep the core employees from turnover.
Keywords/Search Tags:Knowledge Workers, Turnover Intention, Empirical Study
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