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Is it Time to Voluntarily Turn Over Theories of Voluntary Turnover?

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  • Russell, Craig J.

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The current research literature on voluntary employee turnover exhibits at least four shortcomings: low predictive validity, excessive exuberance with predictors, low rigor, and little relevance. Existing theories of voluntary employee turnover research are under specified, as none contains the full range of variables originally hypothesized by March and Simon as contributing to individual employees' decisions to quit their jobs. March and Simon (1958) contributed to the current state of affairs by making at least one assumption that subsequent results do not support. Subsequent efforts to expand theory and to detect and integrate new explanatory constructs have led to a much deeper understanding of the same small portion of turnover variance explained in employee decisions to quit. Deficiencies in current approaches and what a nondeficient model of voluntary employee turnover might look like are described. Directions for future voluntary turnover research are identified, as are past trends that need to be discontinued.

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  • Russell, Craig J., 2013. "Is it Time to Voluntarily Turn Over Theories of Voluntary Turnover?," Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(2), pages 156-173, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:inorps:v:6:y:2013:i:02:p:156-173_00
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    1. Aharon Tziner & Assa Birati, 2015. "Assessing the Financial Value of Human Resource Management Programs and Employee Behaviors: A Critical Tool Still Coming of Age," The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 17(S9), pages 1259-1259, November.
    2. Santosh Kumar Gupta & Nitesh Bhatia & Manju Bhagat, 2022. "A Review of Employee Turnover Models and their Role in Evolution of Turnover Literature," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 65(1), pages 185-214, March.
    3. Aharon Tziner & Assa Birati, 2015. "Assessing the Financial Value of Human Resource Management Programs and Employee Behaviors: A Critical Tool Still Coming of Age," The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 17(Special 9), pages 1259-1259, November.

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