Impacts of transformational leadership on turnover intention of child welfare workers. (January 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Impacts of transformational leadership on turnover intention of child welfare workers. (January 2020)
- Main Title:
- Impacts of transformational leadership on turnover intention of child welfare workers
- Authors:
- Park, Taekyung
Pierce, Barbara - Abstract:
- Highlights: Distance leadership in public child welfare shapes organizational culture and climate. Effect of transformational leadership on turnover intention of child welfare workers. Effect of transformational leadership on organizational culture and climate. Effect of transformational leadership on organizational commitment in child welfare. Abstract: The high turnover rate among child welfare workers is a constant, well-documented issue. This study aimed to examine how organizational factors, particularly leadership, affect child welfare worker turnover intentions in order to help child welfare agencies establish a practice model that prevents the turnover of qualified workers. In order to do so, it is important to examine the effects of organizational commitment on employees' turnover intentions. A cross-sectional survey was distributed among workers in public child welfare agencies in a Midwestern state in the United States (N = 214). A path model was developed to test the direct and indirect effects of transformational leadership on the turnover intentions of child welfare workers using STATA. The survey results indicated that the transformational leadership styles of local office directors had direct and negative effects on child welfare workers' turnover intentions. Therefore, this study recommends that child welfare services provide local office directors with leadership training in order to reduce the preventable turnover of child welfare workers.
- Is Part Of:
- Children and youth services review. Volume 108(2020)
- Journal:
- Children and youth services review
- Issue:
- Volume 108(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 108, Issue 2020 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 108
- Issue:
- 2020
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0108-2020-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2020-01
- Subjects:
- Child welfare worker turnover -- Transformational leadership -- Organizational culture -- Organizational climate
Social work with children -- Periodicals
Social work with youth -- Periodicals
Adolescent -- Periodicals
Child Welfare -- Periodicals
Social Work -- Periodicals
Service social aux enfants -- Périodiques
Service social à la jeunesse -- Périodiques
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362.705 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01907409 ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104624 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0190-7409
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