Spector, P. E . (1991). Confirmatory test of a turnover model utilizing multiple data sources. Human Performance, 4, 221-230. Abstract

In recent years, there have been several confirmatory tests of turnover models, based almost exclusively on subject self-reports for all but the measurement of turnover itself. A test of a subset of the Mobley, Griffeth, Hand, and Meglino (197 9) model was conducted using data from three sources. It was proposed that autonomy, workload, constraints, role ambiguity, and interpersonal conflict (assessed by supervisor reports) would lead to job satisfaction (assessed by subject reports), which wou ld lead to intention of quitting (assessed by secretary reports), which would lead to turnover (from organization records). A trimmed version of the model (with role ambiguity and interpersonal conflict deleted) yielded good overall fit, but job condition s accounted for a very small amount of job satisfaction variance, and workload related in a direction opposite to predictions. (Copyright 1991, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.).