TY - GEN
T1 - Factors affecting intention to quit among IT professionals
AU - Calisir, F.
AU - Gumussoy, C. A.
AU - Iskin, I.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Turnover among information technology (IT) professionals still remains a challenge for many companies. IT professionals suffer from high stress levels. This, in turn, may lead to burnout and result in quitting their jobs. Knowing the factors that affect the quitting decision of IT professionals is important for companies to decrease the turnover rate of qualified employees. To this end, this study investigated the impact of stressors, job stress, organizational commitment, locus of control and job satisfaction on intention to quit among IT professionals in Turkey. A total of 204 questionnaires were collected from IT professionals. The results show that job satisfaction is explained by stressors and locus of control, whereas the effect of job stress on job satisfaction is found to be insignificant. Additionally, both organizational commitment and job satisfaction predict intention to quit. The paper concludes with discussion and recommendations for future research.
AB - Turnover among information technology (IT) professionals still remains a challenge for many companies. IT professionals suffer from high stress levels. This, in turn, may lead to burnout and result in quitting their jobs. Knowing the factors that affect the quitting decision of IT professionals is important for companies to decrease the turnover rate of qualified employees. To this end, this study investigated the impact of stressors, job stress, organizational commitment, locus of control and job satisfaction on intention to quit among IT professionals in Turkey. A total of 204 questionnaires were collected from IT professionals. The results show that job satisfaction is explained by stressors and locus of control, whereas the effect of job stress on job satisfaction is found to be insignificant. Additionally, both organizational commitment and job satisfaction predict intention to quit. The paper concludes with discussion and recommendations for future research.
KW - Intention to quit
KW - IT professionals
KW - Job satisfaction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77949499079&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IEEM.2009.5373453
DO - 10.1109/IEEM.2009.5373453
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77949499079
SN - 9781424448708
T3 - IEEM 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
SP - 49
EP - 53
BT - IEEM 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
T2 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2009
Y2 - 8 December 2009 through 11 December 2009
ER -
