The effect of genuine leadership on the employee's turnover intention with the mediating role of job attitude of employees

Abstract

Today, employee's turnover, especially skilled employees, has become an important issue for organizations and imposes a lot of costs. Therefore, finding factors that can prevent employee's turnover is of particular importance. In this regard, the present study was carried out with the aim of determining the effect of genuine leadership on the intention to turnover with the mediating role of job attitude. The research method in the current applied research was descriptive survey type. The statistical population consisted of all the experts of Iran Insurance Joint Stock Company and Entrepreneur Insurance and Zanjan Saba Insurance Services in Zanjan city. The statistical sample of this research is 109 experts. The data collection tool was a questionnaire (taken from the research (Anthony et al., 2016). The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed with Cronbach's reliability coefficient higher than 0.7 and combined reliability (CR) higher than 0.6 in all variables. Its validity was confirmed with AVE more than 0.4 for all variables. In order to test the hypotheses and fit the model, structural equation modeling and partial least squares method with PLS3 software were used. According to the results, all the hypotheses were confirmed and showed that genuine leadership has a negative and significant effect on on employee's turnover intention. Also, the mediating role of job attitude in the negative effect of genuine leadership on the employee's turnover intention was also confirmed.

Keywords

• genuine leadership
• employee's turnover intention
• job attitude