ANOTHER LOOK AT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMANCE AND VOLUNTARY TURNOVER.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 April 1994
Craig Williams, Linda Parrack Livingstone
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This study reexamined the critical relationship between performance and voluntary turnover. A meta-analysis based on 55 studies and a total sample size of 15,138 supported these conclusions: the negative relationship between performance and turnover is robust and unaffected by unemployment rates and the length of lime between measurements of the two variables. The negative performance-turnover relationship was stronger in organizations using performance-contingent rewards, and support was found for a U-shaped relationship. This study also compared and contrasted three different meta-analytic techniques.
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