TY - SER AU - Treuren, Gerrit J M TI - Pay dissatisfaction and intention to leave PY - 2015/// N2 - This article examines the power of a particular type of employee attachment--client embeddedness--in buffering the adverse effect of pay dissatisfaction on employee intention to leave. Based on a sample of 153 personal care workers employed by a disability service organization, this article finds that client embeddednes--the attachment that employees can experience as a result of interactions with clients or customers--dampens the adverse effect of pay dissatisfaction on employee intention to leave. This finding has implications for the development of appropriate recruitment and retention practices in not-for-profit organizations ER -