ob问题2员工企业宝贵资产但可能会自愿离开组织考题question h.pdfVIP

OBQuestion2.Employeesarevaluableassetsoffirmsbutmayvoluntarilyleavetheirorganizations.

Whatareimportantfactorscontributingtoemployees’turnover?Related,whatarethemajor

theorieplainingthisphenomenon.Pleaseprovideamoderatelythoroughliteraturereview.

Then,ifyouaretoadvanceresearchinthisareainfirms,whatarepossiblyprofitable

avenues?

Asoneofthemostimportantdependentvariablesinmanagerialresearch,managerial

practitionersandorganizationalresearchershavepaidalotofattentiononemployee

turnover.Inthisshortarticle,Iwillbriefintroducetheconsequences,antecedencesand

theimportanttheoriesofvoluntaryturnover.

TheMeaningofTurnoverResearchtoPractitioners,Researchersand

Employees

Fromboththeperspectivesofpractitionersandresearchers,thecostofturnover(Hinkin

Tracey,2000)isoneofthemostsalientreasonstheyconcerntheconsequencesof

employees’turnover.McElroy,MorrowandRude(2001)reportedthatvoluntary,

involuntaryandreduction-in-forceturnoverratesnegativelypredictedunitperformance.

Theunexpectedcostsofrecruitingandtraining,theperformancereducingcausedby

inexperiencedworklabor,andevenpossiblelaborshortageinsomecriticalindustries

makeemployersemphasizetheimportanceofretainingkeyemployeesandimplement

humanresourcespoliciesandpracticestoactivelyreduceavoidableandundesirable

turnoverinresponse(Michaels,Handfield-Jones,Axelrod,2001;Fulmer,Gerhart,

Scott,2003;Hom,Roberson,Ellis,2008).

HRpracticeshaveimpactnotonlyonorganizationalperformancebutalsoon

employees’individualdecisionmakingsuchasvoluntaryturnover,thusvoluntary

turnoverisoneofthevariableswhichcanconceptuallylinktheindividualexperience

andorganizationaleffectiveness.Fororganiz