The Influence of Job Satisfaction on Child Welfare Worker’s Desire to Stay: An Examination of the Interaction Effect of Self-Efficacy and Supportive Supervision

Implications Due to significant staff turnover, the child welfare workforce may be comprised of new and inexperienced workers. Training, enhanced supervision, and professional incentives are all strategies used to improve worker satisfaction and retention. Finding effective solutions for staff retention is paramount as turnover can lead to disruption of the continuity and quality of care for children and increased costs for agencies for recruitment and training. Although improving job satisfaction is adopted by many agencies as a solution to encourage workers to stay, little is known whether its effect remains under the influence of certain psychosocial factors of workers.