Workplace attachment and request for professional transfer. Study on a population of French employees

Abstract

The current research aims at analyzing the impact of the workplace attachment, that the National Education employees manifest, on their decision to request professional mutation. 150 French employees were asked to respond to a questionnaire that comprised three scales, evaluating workplace attachment, professional life satisfaction, and organizational affective involvement, as well as a free item evaluating the perceived distance between the employees’ home and their workplaces. The results show that the attachment to the workplace is a predictor of the intention to change the workplace, which proves to be, furthermore, more important than both the level of organizational affective involvement and the satisfaction of one’s professional life.