Structural equation modeling with LISREL: essentials and advances
Structural equation modeling with LISREL: essentials and advances
Determinants of MIS employees' turnover intentions: a structural equation model
Communications of the ACM
The reasons for turnover of information systems personnel
Information and Management
Revisiting the perennial question: are IS people different?
ACM SIGMIS Database
Turnover among DP personnel: a casual analysis
Communications of the ACM
Triple jeopardy: race, gender and class politics of women in technology
SIGMIS CPR '03 Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Freedom in Philadelphia--leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce
Views from the field on mentoring and roles of effective networks for minority IT doctoral students
SIGMIS CPR '03 Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Freedom in Philadelphia--leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce
Is there a retention gap for women and minorities? the case for moving in versus moving up
Strategies for managing IS/IT personnel
Recruitment is never enough: retention of women and minorities in the IT workplace
Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Careers, culture, and ethics in a networked environment
The other side of turnover: managing IT personnel strategically
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research: The global information technology workforce
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel doctoral consortium and research
Models of motivation in software engineering
Information and Software Technology
A systematic review of theory use in studies investigating the motivations of software engineers
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Management Information System's 48th annual conference on Computer personnel research on Computer personnel research
Antecedents to IT personnel's intentions to leave: A systematic literature review
Journal of Systems and Software
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This study focuses on the role played by social support from supervisors and colleagues in helping to minimize turnover intentions among computer professionals. Although the concept of social support has been widely used in the occupational stress literature, it has rarely been applied in turnover research. This study explains why social support is particularly salient to computer professionals' turnover. It develops a model that posits that (i) social support is positively related to job satisfaction, (ii) social support is negatively related to turnover intentions, and (iii) social affiliation needs moderate the relationship between social support and turnover intentions. The model is tested using data collected from a questionnaire survey. The results support six of the seven hypotheses. Specifically, they indicate that workplace social support is negatively related to turnover intentions for computer professionals with high social affiliation needs, and that job satisfaction mediates the relationship between social support and turnover intentions. Implications of the results are discussed.