The Effect of Perceived Organizational Support and Safety Climate on Voluntary Turnover in the Transportation Industry

A model investigating the relationship between safety climate, perceivedorganizational support, and voluntary turnover is developed and tested with datacollected from the trucking industry. Perceived organizational support is shownto mediate the relationship between safety climate and voluntary turnover, butthis effect occurs only with tenured employees who are not at the beginning orend of their careers. This implicates a curvilinear relationship of the variablesand offers statistical support for a temporal nature of perceived organizationalsupport which has not been found in previous studies.