Motivational profiles and objective working conditions: reading value disconnection through turnover intention

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Adriana Cerasuolo, Giuseppe Gargiulo
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/174
Language Italian Pages 40 P. 136-175 File size 641 KB
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The article examines turnover intention as both a statistical outcome and a critical signal of value disconnection in post-industrial labour markets. Drawing on the INAPP Quality of Work Survey 2021, we combine a Job Quality Index (JQI) capturing structural conditions with Latent Class Analysis of intrinsic dimensions such as recognition, engagement, stress and work–life balance. Results confirm that better job quality reduces exit propensity, but subjective experiences crucially moderate this effect: workers embedded in recognition gaps and emotional strain show high turnover intention even in favourable organisational contexts. Younger cohorts display lower tolerance and stronger quitting attitudes, highlighting a generational fracture in work expectations. By linking robust empirical evidence with the crisis of work meaningfulness, the study interprets turnover intention as an indicator of emerging forms of detachment and refusal of work, moving beyond its merely organizational matrix and reframing it as a tool to analyze and intervene in this broader phenomenon.

Keywords: work quality, turnover intention, working conditions, work meaning, latent class analysis.

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Adriana Cerasuolo, Giuseppe Gargiulo, Profili motivazionali e condizioni oggettive del lavoro: leggere la disconnessione valoriale attraverso la turnover intention in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 174/2026, pp 136-175, DOI: