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One hundred years of employee turnover theory and research.

Peter W. Hom1; Thomas Lee2; Jason D. Shaw3; John P. Hausknecht4

1 Arizona State University · 2 Organization of American States · 3 Hong Kong Polytechnic University · 4 Cornell University

Journal of Applied Psychology 2017 open access

. Along with classic articles from this journal, we expand our review to include other publications that yielded key theoretical and methodological contributions to the turnover literature. We first describe how the earliest papers examined practical methods for turnover reduction or control and then explain how theory development and testing began in the mid-20th century and dominated the academic literature until the turn of the century. We then track 21st century interest in the psychology of staying (rather than leaving) and attitudinal trajectories in predicting turnover. Finally, we discuss the rising scholarship on collective turnover given the centrality of human capital flight to practitioners and to the field of human resource management strategy. (PsycINFO Database Record

DOI
10.1037/apl0000103
Volume
102 (3)
Pages
530-545
Language
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