Turnover

• Unavoidable reasons – school starting, job transfer of spouse, etc.
• Advancement – pursue promotions or better pay
• Unmet needs – must consider person/organization fit
• Escape the job
• Unmet expectations
• Embeddedness – the extent to which employees have links to their jobs and community, the importance of these links, and the ease with which these links could be broken and reestablished elsewhere
• Select employees who have been referred by a current employees, who have friends or family working for the org, and who did not leave their previous job after only a short tenure