Exploring onboarding success, organizational fit, and turnover intention of software professionals

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dc.contributor.authorSharma, Gaurav G.
dc.contributor.authorStol, Klaas-Jan
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Regional Development Funden
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-14T15:55:53Z
dc.date.available2019-10-14T15:55:53Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-11
dc.date.updated2019-10-14T15:48:29Z
dc.description.abstractThe IT sector struggles with talent acquisition and low retention rates. While several field studies have explored onboarding of software developers, the software engineering literature lacks studies that develop and evaluate theoretical models. This study seeks to explore the link between onboarding of new hires and turnover intention of these professionals. In particular, we develop a theoretical model that identifies a number of onboarding activities, and link these to onboarding success. We then look at what we have termed “organizational fit,” which we define as two aspects of software professionals, namely job satisfaction and the quality of their relationships on the workfloor, and investigate how these mediate the relation between short-term onboarding success and a longer-term intention to leave (or stay with) an organization. We test our model with a sample of 102 software professionals using PLS-SEM. The findings suggest that providing support to new hires plays a major role in onboarding success, but that training is less important. Further, we found that job satisfaction mediates the relationship between onboarding success and turnover intention, but workplace relationship quality does not. Based on the findings, we discuss a number of implications for practice and suggestions for future research.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationSharma, G. G. and Stol, K.-J. (2019) 'Exploring Onboarding Success, Organizational Fit, and Turnover Intention of Software Professionals', Journal of Systems and Software, In Press. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2019.110442en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jss.2019.110442en
dc.identifier.endpage19en
dc.identifier.issn0164-1212
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Systems and Softwareen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8743
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG)/15/SIRG/3293/IE/Software Development with Alternative Workforces/
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/13/RC/2094/IE/Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre/
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016412121930216X
dc.rights© 2019, Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is made available under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectOnboardingen
dc.subjectJob satisfactionen
dc.subjectTurnover intentionen
dc.subjectSurveyen
dc.subjectPLSen
dc.titleExploring onboarding success, organizational fit, and turnover intention of software professionalsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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