Predicting public child welfare employees' intentions to remain employed with the child welfare organizational culture inventory

Tonya M. Westbrook, Alberta J. Ellett and Kia Asberg

Children and Youth Services Review, 2012, vol. 34, issue 7, 1214-1221

Abstract: High employee turnover continues to be a serious problem in the field of public child welfare. In a statewide study of public child welfare employees in a southern state, the Child Welfare Organizational Culture Inventory was used to assess employees' perceptions of organizational culture and to examine which factors might be predictors of employees' intentions to remain on the job as measured by the Intent to Remain Employed-Child Welfare scale. Logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between organizational culture and employees' intent to remain in their in child welfare. These analyses provide a view into which employees might be at higher risk for leaving their positions and which organizational factors are contributing to the problem of high worker turnover.

Keywords: Child welfare; Organizational culture; Workforce studies; Child welfare employee retention; Child welfare turnover (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.02.010

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