Turnover Contagion: How Coworkers' Job Embeddedness and Job Search Behaviors Influence Quitting
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 June 2009
Will Felps, Terence R. Mitchell, David R. Hekman, Thomas Lee, Brooks C. Holtom, Wendy S. Harman
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This research developed and tested a model of turnover contagion in which the job embeddedness and job search behaviors of coworkers influence employees' decisions to quit. In a sample of 45 branches of a regional bank and 1,038 departments of a national hospitality firm, multilevel analysis revealed that coworkers' job embeddedness and job search behaviors explain variance in individual "voluntary turnover" over and above that explained by other individual and group-level predictors. Broadly speaking, these results suggest that coworkers' job embeddedness and job search behaviors play critical roles in explaining why people quit their jobs. Implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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