TY - JOUR
T1 - Job satisfaction, blat and intentions to leave among blue-collar employees in contemporary Russia
AU - Balabanova, Evgeniya
AU - Efendiev, Azer
AU - Ehrnrooth, Mats
AU - Koveshnikov, Alexei
PY - 2016/1/4
Y1 - 2016/1/4
N2 - Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine antecedents of intentions to leave among blue-collar employees in domestic Russian organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a sample of 1,210 blue-collar employees in 80 domestic organizations across 14 industries and eight regions in Russia. Findings – The analysis shows that wage satisfaction is the strongest negative predictor of Russian employees’ intentions to leave compared to core job-related and interpersonal relations satisfaction. For non-blat employees, the relationships with intentions to leave are negative and significant for all three types of satisfactions, whereas for employees with blat only the relationship between core job-related satisfaction and intentions to leave is significant. Originality/value – The present study, first, reveals that wage satisfaction is the most important but not the only way to retain blue-collar employees in Russia and, second, points toward the complex nature of blat’s influence on employees’ organizational behavior in contemporary Russian organizations. By so doing, the analysis provides a still rare empirical illustration of how relationships and variables explaining turnover intentions and its antecedents are contingent on economic, cultural and institutional contexts.
AB - Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine antecedents of intentions to leave among blue-collar employees in domestic Russian organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a sample of 1,210 blue-collar employees in 80 domestic organizations across 14 industries and eight regions in Russia. Findings – The analysis shows that wage satisfaction is the strongest negative predictor of Russian employees’ intentions to leave compared to core job-related and interpersonal relations satisfaction. For non-blat employees, the relationships with intentions to leave are negative and significant for all three types of satisfactions, whereas for employees with blat only the relationship between core job-related satisfaction and intentions to leave is significant. Originality/value – The present study, first, reveals that wage satisfaction is the most important but not the only way to retain blue-collar employees in Russia and, second, points toward the complex nature of blat’s influence on employees’ organizational behavior in contemporary Russian organizations. By so doing, the analysis provides a still rare empirical illustration of how relationships and variables explaining turnover intentions and its antecedents are contingent on economic, cultural and institutional contexts.
KW - Job satisfaction
KW - Russia
KW - Turnover
KW - “Blat”
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84951791183&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/BJM-03-2015-0079
DO - 10.1108/BJM-03-2015-0079
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84951791183
VL - 11
SP - 21
EP - 43
JO - Baltic Journal of Management
JF - Baltic Journal of Management
SN - 1746-5265
IS - 1
ER -