Mowday, R. T. (1981). Viewing turnover from the perspective of those who remain: The relationship of job attitudes to attributions of the causes of turnover. Journal of Applied Psychology, 66(1), 120-123.
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540 lower-level employees in 7 state and county government agencies indicated on a questionnaire which of 3 possible reasons was the most important cause of turnover in their agencies. Results suggest that employees with positive job attitudes are less likely to indicate that others left because of job dissatisfaction. This finding is consistent with both the ego-defensive and egocentric biases in attribution processes but not with the fundamental attribution error. (11 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)