Proposed Framework to Investigate Perceived Alternative Job Opportunities as a Moderator on the Relationship between Job Embeddedness, Pay Satisfaction and Actual Voluntary Turnover

Abstract

Globally, the issue of actual voluntary turnover is a phenomenon that hinders organisations from accomplishing objectives. While prior studies have examined several factors that elucidate why employees voluntarily quit their jobs, however, only a handful have made efforts to link job embeddedness and pay satisfaction. In fact the few, if any reported conflicting results. Hence, as a contribution, this paper proposes a framework that explores the relationship between job embeddedness, pay satisfaction and actual voluntary turnover with a moderating role of perceived alternative job opportunities among former faculty members in Nigeria.

Keywords: Actual voluntary turnover, job embeddedness, pays satisfaction, perceived alternative job opportunities