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Research paper thumbnail of Predicting staff retention from employee motivation and job satisfaction

Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2018

This study investigated the role of employee motivation and job satisfaction as predictors of sta... more This study investigated the role of employee motivation and job satisfaction as predictors of staff retention in a foreign exchange bank. Participants were 341 employees of a South African foreign exchange bank division (female = 62 .8%; black = 31 .1%; managers = 37%, mean years of experience = 10 years). The employees completed the following self-report measures: Work Preference Inventory, Job Satisfaction Survey, and Employee Retention Questionnaire. Structural equation modelling was applied in the analysis to test the prediction effect of employee motivation and job satisfaction on staff retention. The findings of the model fit revealed that the model (employee motivation and employee job satisfaction) explained an estimated 46% of the variance in the employee retention construct. The job satisfaction construct in the model explained an estimated 66% of the variance in the employee retention construct; while the employee motivation construct explained only 8% of the variance. Organisational talent management should seek to identify employee motivation and job satisfaction interventions that might help to retain talented staff .

Research paper thumbnail of Validation of an Employee Motivation Measurement Instrument in a Financial Organisation

Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies, 2019

No reproduction, copy or transmission may be made without written permission from the individual ... more No reproduction, copy or transmission may be made without written permission from the individual authors. Papers submitted to this conference have been double-blind peer reviewed before final acceptance to the conference. Initially, abstracts were reviewed for relevance and accessibility and successful authors were invited to submit full papers. Many thanks to the reviewers who helped ensure the quality of all the submissions. ACPIL adheres to a strict ethics and publication malpractice policy for all publicationsdetails of which can be found here: The Conference Proceedings is a book published with an ISBN and ISSN. The proceedings have been submitted to a number of accreditation, citation and indexing bodies including Thomson ISI Web of Science and Elsevier Scopus. Author affiliation details in these proceedings have been reproduced as supplied by the authors themselves. The Electronic version of the Conference Proceedings is available to download from DROPBOX . Select Download and then Direct Download to access the Pdf file. Free download is available for conference participants for a period of 2 weeks after the conference.

Research paper thumbnail of A model of employee motivation and job satisfaction for staff retention practices within a South African foreign exchange banking organisation

Research paper thumbnail of Predicting staff retention from employee motivation and job satisfaction

Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2018

This study investigated the role of employee motivation and job satisfaction as predictors of sta... more This study investigated the role of employee motivation and job satisfaction as predictors of staff retention in a foreign exchange bank. Participants were 341 employees of a South African foreign exchange bank division (female = 62 .8%; black = 31 .1%; managers = 37%, mean years of experience = 10 years). The employees completed the following self-report measures: Work Preference Inventory, Job Satisfaction Survey, and Employee Retention Questionnaire. Structural equation modelling was applied in the analysis to test the prediction effect of employee motivation and job satisfaction on staff retention. The findings of the model fit revealed that the model (employee motivation and employee job satisfaction) explained an estimated 46% of the variance in the employee retention construct. The job satisfaction construct in the model explained an estimated 66% of the variance in the employee retention construct; while the employee motivation construct explained only 8% of the variance. Organisational talent management should seek to identify employee motivation and job satisfaction interventions that might help to retain talented staff .

Research paper thumbnail of Validation of an Employee Motivation Measurement Instrument in a Financial Organisation

Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies, 2019

No reproduction, copy or transmission may be made without written permission from the individual ... more No reproduction, copy or transmission may be made without written permission from the individual authors. Papers submitted to this conference have been double-blind peer reviewed before final acceptance to the conference. Initially, abstracts were reviewed for relevance and accessibility and successful authors were invited to submit full papers. Many thanks to the reviewers who helped ensure the quality of all the submissions. ACPIL adheres to a strict ethics and publication malpractice policy for all publicationsdetails of which can be found here: The Conference Proceedings is a book published with an ISBN and ISSN. The proceedings have been submitted to a number of accreditation, citation and indexing bodies including Thomson ISI Web of Science and Elsevier Scopus. Author affiliation details in these proceedings have been reproduced as supplied by the authors themselves. The Electronic version of the Conference Proceedings is available to download from DROPBOX . Select Download and then Direct Download to access the Pdf file. Free download is available for conference participants for a period of 2 weeks after the conference.

Research paper thumbnail of A model of employee motivation and job satisfaction for staff retention practices within a South African foreign exchange banking organisation

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