The Factors Affecting Turnover Intentions in Private Schools: Mediation of Job Engagement and Moderation of Job Autonomy

Abstract

This study aims to find out the vital contributing aspects to job engagement and their impact on Teacher Turnover Intensions (TTI). For this purpose, it utilizes workload, work-family conflict (WFC), and job stress as antecedents to job engagement at the first level. Then, job engagement serves as a mediator to TTI. Moreover, this research examines the moderation of job autonomy between independent variables (workload, WFC, and job stress) and job engagement. The results of the PLS-SEM provide that job stress directly impacts job engagement and indirectly impacts teachers’ turnover intentions. Besides, job engagement also impacts teachers’ turnover intentions. Other than these, job autonomy plays a moderating role between work-family conflict and job engagement, whereas its direct impact on job engagement was found to be insignificant. Based on these results, the study provides theoretical and practical implications and future research directions.