Turnover Contagion: How Coworkers' Job Embeddedness and Job Search Behaviors Influence Quitting
Document Type
Article
Department or Administrative Unit
Management
Publication Date
6-2009
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Felps, W. et al. (2009). Turnover contagion: How coworkers' job embeddedness and job search behaviors influence quitting. Academy of Management Journal 52(3), 545-561. DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2009.41331075
Journal
Academy of Management Journal
Rights
Copyright © 2009 Academy of Management
Comments
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