Job Satisfaction and Intent to Leave

Abstract In this study, meta-analytic procedures were applied to determine the gen- eralizability of the relationship between job satisfaction and intent to leave. The results were consistent with the hypotheses: The relationship between job satisfaction and intent to leave was significantly different from zero and consistently negative. Furthermore, across levels of job satisfaction, employees from a large U.S. federal agency were less likely than employees within the private sector to leave the organization. Subsequent analyses on the federal agency studies showed that career stage indicators (age and tenure) moderated the relationship between job satisfaction and intent to leave.