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KMID : 1023720110510010361
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2011 Volume.51 No. 1 p.361 ~ p.382
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A Comparative Study on the Determinants of Turnover Intentions between Public and Private Social Workers
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Jang Yun-Jeong
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Abstract
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This study seeks to examine turnover intentions of social workers in the private and public sectors, and to understand what determines their turnover intentions. The major findings of this study are as follows:
1. There exists a paradoxical difference in turnover intentions between public and private social workers. Private social workers tend to show their turnover intentions more often than public social workers. Even if public social workers’ pays are much higher than the private workers’, the former tends to be more dissatisfied with their jobs but to show turnover intetions less often than the latter. In contrast, private social workers tend to be more satisfied with their jobs even if their pays are much lower than public workers. Futhermore, private social workers tend to exhibit much stronger turnover intentions. 2. In the case of the total sample of social workers for this study, the most important determinants of turnover intentions are job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Of the two variables, organizational commitment is more significant variables in terms of the size of standardized regression coefficient. 3. The determinants of turnover intentions of public social workers are different form those of private social workers. In the case of private social workers, the most important variables turn out to be job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and pays in terms of statistical significance
while job satisfaction and job insecurity are the most important variables in the case of public social workers.
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KEYWORD
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social worker, turnover intention, institution type
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