Christopher R. Leupold, Assistant Professor of Psychology, has been notified that his manuscript “Turnover and Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) Physicians: A test of job embeddedness theory,” has been accepted for publication in the conference proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Emerging Issues in Business and Technology.
Written with Kerry L. Leupold, M.D. (Robert Wood Johnson Hospital) and Matthew Valle (Elon University), the study looks at factors which predict turnover for healthcare providers. The paper will be presented at the annual conference in November. The abstract for the paper is below:
Mitchell, Holtom, Lee, Sablynski and Erez (2001) introduced a new construct, entitled “job embeddedness”, as a better way to explain and predict turnover in organizations. The current study tests the job embeddedness construct with a sample of 183 Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) physicians. Results suggest that job embeddedness, a composite variable measuring physician links to other people/the organization itself, job fit and the sacrifices inherent in job change, is negatively related to the turnover intentions of PEM physicians. Implications for healthcare managers are discussed which highlight a shift from determining affective reactions to work, to understanding how job embeddedness can explain healthcare worker turnover.