Abstract We analyze how native employees’ union membership rates change in response to foreign employees using Austrian administrative data for the period 2002 2012. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results indicate a negative effect of immigrant on unionization at firm level. The is result greater—mostly voluntary—turnover unionized firms with larger share migrants, but it not cau...

Background: Organizations are facing many explicit and implicit costs associated with the voluntary turnover of high-performing employees. Voluntary is detrimental to organizational growth success. Therefore, employers practitioners try understand what motivates people leave. Negative employee behaviors such as workplace bullying abusive supervision have been identified critical variables for m...

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to identify the reasons and factors that will improve the survival of employees in the organization. In other words, we seek the answer to the question “why don’t people leave their jobs for another destination?” For this purpose, this study uses the concept of job embeddedness to examine the factors affecting the survival of employees. Method: In this ...

In this study we investigated the relation between job performance and voluntary employee turnover for 5,143 exempt employees in a single firm in the petroleum industry. As hypothesized, we found support for Jackofsky's (1984) curvilinear hypothesis as turnover was higher for low and high performers than it was for average performers. Three potential moderators of this curvilinearity were exami...

Following four decades of economic growth the public sector in Oman is experiencing an emerging problem of labour turnover to the private sector. We examine this phenomenon through semi-structured interviews with 26 current and former public employees. The rate of turnover is low but this masks the impact of losses to key technical and management roles. The main reasons for turnover are dissati...

Taylor and Francis RAMA_A_321322.sgm 10.1080/19416520802211552 Academy of Management Annals 941-6520 (pri t)/1941-6067 (online) Original rticle 2 08 & Francis 0 000August 20 B ooksHoltom [email protected] Abstract Given the extensive research on the topic of voluntary employee turnover in the past decade as well as new managerial approaches to employee retention, labor market dynamism, and evolution...

This paper investigates employee turnover, using data from a recent study of 352 NHS nurse leavers. We explore individual decisions to quit in a context characterised by change, and suggest a mechanism whereby organisational and contextual change can prompt individual leaving decisions. We develop and test hypotheses designed to shed light on the links between organisational change and individu...