Great Resignation—Ethical, Cultural, Relational, and Personal Dimensions of Generation Y and Z Employees’ Engagement

Aleksandra Kuzior, Karolina Kettler and Łukasz Rąb
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Aleksandra Kuzior: Department of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, 26-28 Roosevelt St., 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Karolina Kettler: Department of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, 26-28 Roosevelt St., 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Łukasz Rąb: Department of Philosophy of Morality and Global Ethics, Maria Grzegorzewska University, 02-353 Warsaw, Poland

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-9

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly influenced the work world. One of the most visible impacts on employee lifecycles is the phenomenon called the great resignation, a massive wave of workers quitting across industries that began in 2021, after easing of the first pandemic restrictions. As this process is quite recent, there is a research gap in the field which has pushed the authors to examine this topic in more detail. The authors set the following research hypothesis: The great resignation is primarily caused by the ethical, cultural, relational, and personal factors . In order to verify it, the authors conducted original research and analyzed various desk studies. The research was done within a Berlin-based tech startup in the time frame between January 2020 and December 2021. Based on their findings, the authors concluded that the main reasons for employees leaving their workplaces are non-materialistic ones.

Keywords: Great Resignation; engagement; turnover rate; COVID-19; generation Y; generation Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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