Impact of motivation factors on employee retention in China: mediating role of work engagement

• Autor(a) principal: Jia Ni
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21902
• topic: Total rewards; Monetary rewards; Non-monetary rewards; Work engagement; Intention to stay; Job satisfaction; Affective organizational commitment; Recompensas totais; Recompensas monetárias; Recompensas não monetárias; Engajamento no trabalho; Intenção de ficar; Satisfação no trabalho; Compromisso organizacional afetivo

High employee turnover is a rising concern in China, mostly due to the growing internal job market competition with economic betterment. This has been mostly attributed to monetary rewards competition among companies but there is still scarce knowledge about the role nonmonetary rewards play, from a total rewards perspective. To achieve this, work engagement can be an important explanative factor as an alternative to organizational commitment. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how total reward components, comprehending monetary and non-monetary rewards, influence employees’ choice to stay in Chinese organizations via work engagement while controlling for their job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment. With a sample of 257 employees from 19 provinces, findings show both monetary and non-monetary are important to understand turnover intentions which was explained via the mediator role of work engagement. Work engagement is advised to be at the central strategies for organizations that aim to retain employees.