Alternative Perspectives in Employee Turnover

Riann Singh () and Shalini Ramdeo ()
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Riann Singh: The University of the West Indies
Shalini Ramdeo: The University of the West Indies

Chapter Chapter 8 in Contemporary Perspectives in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, 2023, pp 137-154 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Employee turnover has attracted the attention of researchers for more than a century and this chapter explores emerging and alternative research perspectives on this classical Organizational Behavior (OB) topic. Over the years, researchers have theorized about and empirically examined employee turnover to help management practitioners understand why their employees may make the decision to leave. Indeed, involuntary turnover is a natural part of organizational life. Voluntary turnover, however, remains a costly issue facing organizations. Traditional research on employee turnover focuses heavily on various antecedents or predictors, such as employee attitudes and the availability of job alternatives, which have shaped the evolution of this field. Newer developments in the field have examined alternative arguments on ‘why employees stay’, rather than the classical emphasis on ‘why employees leave’. Further, emerging, negative perspectives on embeddedness, collective turnover, and the examination of turnover in relation to various employee classifications or staying/leaving states have attracted attention within organizational research. Such newer perspectives are explored, and further research gaps are identified.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30225-1_8

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