The role of family-friendly practices and career aspirations on employees’ turnover intentions: organizational commitment as a mediator

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Main Author: Campos, Maria Isabel do Carmo
Publication Date: 2021
Format: Master thesis
Language: eng
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
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Summary: The literature on family-friendly practices is still scarce. These practices are designed to help employees manage their work-life balance and research has demonstrated that they have positive consequences for the organizations and countries that employ these practices. This dissertation aims at comprehending how family-friendly practices impact turnover intentions using organizational commitment as a mediator and career aspirations as a moderator. Our sample (N = 237) consisted on employees that work on the private sector in Portugal, and that have at least one child aged 12 yearsold or younger. We predict that family-friendly practices will diminish turnover intentions both directly, and indirectly through affective commitment, normative commitment, or continuance commitment. Further, we hypothesize that career aspirations will have a moderation effect on the relationship between family-friendly practices and each of the dimensions of organizational commitment, and a moderation effect in the relationship between family-friendly practices and turnover intentions. Our results show that family-friendly practices do indeed diminish turnover intentions through the mediating effect of affective commitment. Normative commitment and continuance commitment didn’t generate significant results. The same happened for career aspirations. This dissertation is, at last, completed with a discussion of our findings and recommendations for future research on the matter.
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spelling The role of family-friendly practices and career aspirations on employees’ turnover intentions: organizational commitment as a mediatorFamily-friendly practicesOrganizational commitmentTurnover intentionsCareer aspirationsPráticas de apoio familiarCompromisso organizacionalIntenção de turnoverAspirações de carreiraThe literature on family-friendly practices is still scarce. These practices are designed to help employees manage their work-life balance and research has demonstrated that they have positive consequences for the organizations and countries that employ these practices. This dissertation aims at comprehending how family-friendly practices impact turnover intentions using organizational commitment as a mediator and career aspirations as a moderator. Our sample (N = 237) consisted on employees that work on the private sector in Portugal, and that have at least one child aged 12 yearsold or younger. We predict that family-friendly practices will diminish turnover intentions both directly, and indirectly through affective commitment, normative commitment, or continuance commitment. Further, we hypothesize that career aspirations will have a moderation effect on the relationship between family-friendly practices and each of the dimensions of organizational commitment, and a moderation effect in the relationship between family-friendly practices and turnover intentions. Our results show that family-friendly practices do indeed diminish turnover intentions through the mediating effect of affective commitment. Normative commitment and continuance commitment didn’t generate significant results. The same happened for career aspirations. This dissertation is, at last, completed with a discussion of our findings and recommendations for future research on the matter.A literatura existente sobre as práticas de apoio familiar ainda é escassa. Estas práticas foram desenhadas de forma a ajudarem os trabalhadores a gerir a sua vida pessoal e o trabalho, e a literatura prova que as práticas de apoio familiar têm consequências positivas para as empresas e para os países que as implementam. Esta dissertação de mestrado tenciona compreender como as práticas de apoio familiar influenciam as intenções de turnover, usando o compromisso organizacional como mediador e as aspirações de carreira como moderador. A amostra deste estudo (N = 237) consistiu em pessoas que trabalham em empresas privadas em Portugal e têm pelo menos um filho com 12 anos ou menos. Prevemos que as práticas de apoio familiar diminuam as intenções de turnover tanto diretamente como indiretamente através do compromisso organizacional afetivo, normativo e calculativo. Adicionalmente, prevemos que as aspirações de carreira tenham um efeito moderador na relação entre as práticas de apoio familiar e as três dimensões de compromisso organizacional, e na relação entre as práticas de apoio familiar e as intenções de turnover. Os nossos resultados revelam que, de facto, as práticas de apoio familiar diminuem as intenções de turnover através do efeito mediador do compromisso organizacional afetivo. O compromisso organizacional normativo e calculativo não apresentaram resultados significativos, tal como as aspirações de carreira. Por fim, esta dissertação de mestrado é completada por uma discussão dos resultados e por recomendações feitas para futuras investigações sobre o tópico.2022-01-24T12:20:09Z2021-12-20T00:00:00Z2021-12-202021-10info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10071/24264TID:202855783engCampos, Maria Isabel do Carmoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)instname:FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainstacron:RCAAP2024-07-07T03:18:08Zoai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/24264Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireinfo@rcaap.ptopendoar:https://opendoar.ac.uk/repository/71602025-05-28T18:20:22.762506Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) - FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The role of family-friendly practices and career aspirations on employees’ turnover intentions: organizational commitment as a mediator
title The role of family-friendly practices and career aspirations on employees’ turnover intentions: organizational commitment as a mediator
spellingShingle The role of family-friendly practices and career aspirations on employees’ turnover intentions: organizational commitment as a mediator
Campos, Maria Isabel do Carmo
Family-friendly practices
Organizational commitment
Turnover intentions
Career aspirations
Práticas de apoio familiar
Compromisso organizacional
Intenção de turnover
Aspirações de carreira
title_short The role of family-friendly practices and career aspirations on employees’ turnover intentions: organizational commitment as a mediator
title_full The role of family-friendly practices and career aspirations on employees’ turnover intentions: organizational commitment as a mediator
title_fullStr The role of family-friendly practices and career aspirations on employees’ turnover intentions: organizational commitment as a mediator
title_full_unstemmed The role of family-friendly practices and career aspirations on employees’ turnover intentions: organizational commitment as a mediator
title_sort The role of family-friendly practices and career aspirations on employees’ turnover intentions: organizational commitment as a mediator
author Campos, Maria Isabel do Carmo
author_facet Campos, Maria Isabel do Carmo
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Campos, Maria Isabel do Carmo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Family-friendly practices
Organizational commitment
Turnover intentions
Career aspirations
Práticas de apoio familiar
Compromisso organizacional
Intenção de turnover
Aspirações de carreira
topic Family-friendly practices
Organizational commitment
Turnover intentions
Career aspirations
Práticas de apoio familiar
Compromisso organizacional
Intenção de turnover
Aspirações de carreira
description The literature on family-friendly practices is still scarce. These practices are designed to help employees manage their work-life balance and research has demonstrated that they have positive consequences for the organizations and countries that employ these practices. This dissertation aims at comprehending how family-friendly practices impact turnover intentions using organizational commitment as a mediator and career aspirations as a moderator. Our sample (N = 237) consisted on employees that work on the private sector in Portugal, and that have at least one child aged 12 yearsold or younger. We predict that family-friendly practices will diminish turnover intentions both directly, and indirectly through affective commitment, normative commitment, or continuance commitment. Further, we hypothesize that career aspirations will have a moderation effect on the relationship between family-friendly practices and each of the dimensions of organizational commitment, and a moderation effect in the relationship between family-friendly practices and turnover intentions. Our results show that family-friendly practices do indeed diminish turnover intentions through the mediating effect of affective commitment. Normative commitment and continuance commitment didn’t generate significant results. The same happened for career aspirations. This dissertation is, at last, completed with a discussion of our findings and recommendations for future research on the matter.
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