Abstract:
This study investigates the relationship among job attitudes (job
satisfaction and turnover intentions), heavy work investment (work engagement
and workaholism), and work motivation (promotion focus and prevention focus).
We develop a structural equation model to analyze data collected from a sample of
banking employees. Our findings show that job satisfaction is a good predictor of
work engagement (positive work investment), which, in turn, is related to
progressive motivation (promotion focus). On the other hand, turnover intentions
predict workaholism, which leads to preventive focus (waning motivation).
