The Effect of Burnout and Work Attitudes on Turnover Intention: A Meta-Analytical Comparison between Asia, Oceania, and Africa

Abstract

ABSTRACT The main aim of this study was surveying the effects of burnout and work attitudes on turnover intention by using meta-analysis. Scopus, Web of Science, GoogleScholar, and Proquest were searched to prepare a data including 262 suitable studies providing 374 correlations. The meta-analysis results showed that all the data sets regarding the surveyed relationships were heterogeneous and none of them included publication bias. The effect sizes of job satisfaction, work engagement, and burnout on turnover intention were medium. The effects size of the relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention, and the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction were large.The moderator analysis results suggested that there was a significant difference between the effect sizes of burnout and work engagement on turnover intention in Asia, Oceania, and Africa. Moreover, industry was a moderator for the effect sizes of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on turnover intention. These results can be used by the researchers studying the variables of this study and by the managers determining policies to diminish turnover intention.