The crowding-out effect of the extrinsic motivation: An empirical study on the turnover intention of members of the youth social organization

School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China

^* Corresponding author: liyonglisa1127@163.com

Abstract

The youth voluntary organization has been outstanding in the social governance. Therefore it’s an important issue how to ensure its role played sustainably in the long term. Particularly in reality, a few youth voluntary organizations sometimes become lax and act no function due to the turnover of its members. So it can tell that it’s given a very realistic meaning to discuss the factors influencing the turnover intention of the management of the organization. Based on the theory of organizational identification, the essay tries to find out the members’ intrinsic motivation to join the youth voluntary organization and its impact on turnover intention, and to verify the regulating mechanism of extrinsic motivation to the organizational identification and the mediating mechanism of organizational identification to the turnover intention. The result of the study into members of the Zhejiang youth voluntary organization shows that: (1) the intrinsic intention has the most significant influence on the turnover of the members of the youth voluntary organization; (2) the organizational identification plays a mediating role between intrinsic motivation and turnover intention; (3) the relationship between intrinsic motivation and organizational identification will be moderated by extrinsic motivation. The result of this study releases a revelatory meaning to raise the organizational identification of the members and restrain their turnover intention.