Abstract
Job Embeddedness is relatively a new and theoretically a rich construct. It
includes on the job factors and off the job factors which help in measuring an
employee’s intention to stay. The job embeddedness model by Mitchell and
Lee (2001) has 6 original dimensions. Organization links and community links
(individual connections with people in the organization and community),
organization fit and community fit (individual perception of fit within an
organization and community), organization sacrifice and community sacrifice
(what the individual gives up when leaving the organization or community).
Ramesh & Gelf and worked on its extension. Three new dimensions were
added by Ramesh & Galfand (2010) by including family factor (family links,
family fit, and family sacrifice) and suggested that this factor would predict
turnover in a better way. Job embeddedness enables us to look the relations of
an employee and the employer in a new context. The uniqueness of this
construct is its focus on retention instead of turnover. The objective of this
study is to explore the job embeddedness level of college faculty members of
Higher Education Department, Govt of Punjab. 459 college faculty members
were selected by using convenience sampling technique. Data was collected
using job embeddedness questionnaire. Analysis of the collected data revealed
that college faculty members showed high mean score on organization fit and
community fit dimension of job embeddedness model. Demographic factors
like gender, work experience, locality and designation showed a significant
effect on job embeddedness level of college faculty members. College faculty
stands on a medium level on job embeddedness scale.
Rabia Ghaffar, Ayaz Muhammad khan. (2017) Exploring the level of Job Embeddedness among College Faculty, Journal of Arts and Social sciences, Volume 4, Issue 2.
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