The effects of autonomy and empowerment on employee turnover: test of a multilevel model in teams.

Extending research on voluntary turnover in the team setting, this study adopts a multilevel self-determination theoretical approach to examine the unique roles of individual and social-contextual motivational precursors, autonomy orientation and autonomy support, in reducing team member voluntary turnover. Analysis of multilevel time-lagged data collected from 817 employees on 115 teams indicates that psychological empowerment mediates the main effect of autonomy orientation and the interactive effect of autonomy support and its differentiation on a team member's voluntary turnover. The findings have meaningful implications for the turnover and self-determination literatures as well as for managers who endeavor to prevent voluntary turnover in teams. (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved.

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Dong Liu, Shu Zhang, Lei Wang, Thomas W Lee. The effects of autonomy and empowerment on employee turnover: test of a multilevel model in teams. The Journal of applied psychology. 2011 Nov;96(6):1305-16

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PMID: 21744939

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