The Impact of Collective Psychological Ownership on Turnover Intention Among Social Service Workers

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to incorporate collective psychological ownership (CPO) as psychological resources into the job demands-resources (JD-R) model and investigate the impact of CPO on turnover intention among social service workers. Using an online survey platform, a sample of 761 valid questionnaires was collected from full-time social service workers from 40 social service organizations in Guangdong, a coastal province in Southeast China. Controlling for psychosocial correlates of turnover intention in the JD-R model (i.e. job demands, job resources, burnout, and work engagement) as revealed by prior studies, ordinal logistic regression analyses indicated that CPO was negatively associated with turnover intention. The effects of CPO on turnover intention may inspire more discussion on incorporating psychological resources into the JD-R model for explaining turnover intention in organizational contexts and have important implications for retaining manpower in value-driven human-helping professions in particular. (142 words)

KEYWORDS:

• Collective psychological ownership
• turnover intention
• job demands
• job resources
• work burnout
• work engagement

Authorship

Xuebing Su: designed and implemented the study, conducted data collection and data analysis, drafted the article, and revised the manuscript according to reviewers’ comments

Kun Liang: supported the data collection and data analysis and drafted the article

Victor Wong: drafted the manuscript and revised the manuscript based on reviewers’ comments

Ethics approval statement & consent form

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Hong Kong and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All participants were well informed about the objectives of the research and signed a consent form before joining the research.

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Funding

The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.