This study has highlighted the importance of understanding the predictors of turnover intention in the increasingly competitive construction environment Since predicting and preventing costly turnover of talented professionals are key challenges facing firms in the construction sector where the employee turnover rates are fairly high retaining talented human resources is of importance for organizations performance and competitive advantage This study tried to explain why and how the two components of self orientation organizational identification and perceived external prestige differently explain turnover intentions of construction professionals in the Turkish construction industry In particular we had two primary objectives in conducting this research Our first objective was to better understand the predictors of turnover intention The results did not support the existence of distinct and complementary structure of the BID In other words relational and individuation dimensions were found to be correlated as bipolar opposites This finding is inconsistent with the results of other studies that have used the BID scale in Turkey the United States and Canada e g İmamoğlu 1998 2002 İmamoğlu Karakitapoglu Aygün 2004 Kurt 2002a 2002b
Only black division that saw infantry combat in Europe Out of 909 000 black Americans selected for active duty in the army for WWII only this division saw infantry combat in Europe The rest were assigned to segregated construction or supply units or units with unpleasant duties like graves registration It was the government's belief that blacks were not motivated or aggressive enough to fight Enlisted men and junior officers were black higher officers were white Of the 12 846 Buffalo Soldiers who saw action 2 848 were killed captured of wounded Inefficient Training Under the command of Major General Edward M Almond the 92nd began combat training at Fort McClellan Alabama October 1942 and then deployed to Italy the summer of 1944 They trained hard while struggling with high rates of illiteracy military discipline issues and racial white societal norms Racial intolerance of white society during this time prevented the unit from training together as a whole making unit cohesion very difficult After 8 months of this the division moved to Fort Huachuca Arizona to complete its training