Exploring turnover intent correlated to jail and prison officials: A Taiwanese perspective

Autor:	Shihche Peng, Yung-Lien Lai, Shuping Tzeng
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Response rate (survey) medicine.medical_specialty Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Perspective (graphical) Significant difference Prison Organizational commitment medicine Psychiatry Psychology Law media_common
Zdroj:	International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. 37:213-232
ISSN:	2157-6475 0192-4036
DOI:	10.1080/01924036.2012.729339
Popis:	Although a review of literature related to turnover intent in the correctional workplace has focused primarily on prison officers, jailers have frequently been overlooked. Specifically, a comparison between jail and prison officers’ perceptions in Taiwan is limited. In order to fill the gap, our study was based on three objectives: (1) surveying Taiwanese correctional officers who experienced the “get-tough-on-crime” policy during the early 2000s, (2) testing for differences in turnover intent between jail and prison officers, and (3) examining personal and workplace environmental factors in order to determine whether distinct turnover intent exists among prison and jail officers. A self-report survey administered to 799 Taiwanese correctional officers (with an adjusted response rate of 89%) demonstrated that jail and prison officers had moderately high levels of turnover intent with no significant difference. When turnover intent correlates were further examined, job dangerousness, organizational harmony...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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