The Intention to Leave: A Precursor of Staff Turnover

The investigations carried out to date on job abandonment have focused their attention on the direct relationships between job satisfactionJob satisfaction and staff turnoverStaff turnover, as well as their various organizational consequences. However, few studies have analyzed the role of intention to leaveIntention to leave as a precursor of employee turnover, through job satisfaction. The purpose of this research is to determine the degree to which job satisfactionJob satisfaction, the perception of importance that the worker has on labor aspects, exogenous variables; and personal factors influence the intention to leave and this with the turnover of personnel, in a sample of 681 workers from the export footwear industry in the city of León, Guanajuato, Mexico. The results were significant, the correlation between satisfaction and the intention to quit was statistically significant, unlike the perception of importance. Among the exogenous variables, better salary, evidence of a relationship on the intention to leaveIntention to leave was found. The association between the intention to leave the company and personal aspects did not show any association. The research addresses the problem from a factorial approach, which allows us to better understand the phenomenon and address it.