Turnover Research Report
Turnover Research Report
By
GUTTA AMRUTA
REGISTER NUMBER
1927835
Section – K
Institute of Management
CHRIST (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY), Bengaluru
November 2019
A STUDY ON EMPLOYEE TURNOVER - REASONS AND ITS EFFECTS IN THE
ORGANIZATION
ABSTRACT:
The study examines the circumstances and end results of representative turnover and preventive actions
managers can remove to keep away from control turnover. Reasons for turnover fall under three categories:
work disappointment, mistakes in worker determination, and poor administration. The most well-known
reason for turnover is work disappointment while the most common impacts are the costs borne by an
cautioning of job dissatisfaction and occasional working environment assessment of fulfillment, an open
entryway policy style of the board, and maintain exacting enlisting norms. All together to keep expenses
INTRODUCTION:
Turnover is the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average
number of workers. In more straightforward terms, turnover is the arrangement of moves that it makes
from the worker leaving to their being supplanted. It is conduct which depicts this procedure.
Representative turnover might be generally a negative issue, yet it can wind up positive whenever
constrained by the association accurately and suitably. Turnover is regularly used as a marker of
organization execution and can without much of a stretch be watched contrarily towards the association's
proficiency and viability. Representative turnover is a characteristic result of working together, yet it is
hurtful to an association in enormous amounts, so it ought to be kept to a base. There are sure examples
during which turnover can be used to profit the organization, for example, firing poor entertainers, taking
into consideration inner advancement, and procuring new workers with creative thoughts. New workers
regularly carry a positive contribution to the organization if the turnover is taken care of accurately. An
assortment of research tasks directed and articles composed on the theme were concentrated to make an
accumulation of endeavors to show the circumstances and end results of turnover and preventive estimates
the executives and initiative of an organization may execute. As an exhibition marker, turnover ought to
be comprehended by the executives and administration of the organization. This paper will talk about what
might be the purposes behind turnover, what outcomes turnover has on an organization, and what the board
and administration in the organization can do to deflect high turnover and decrease the impacts.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
3. The strategies that organizations are trying to adapt to reduce employee turnover.
LITERATURE REVIEW:
Catherine Taylor and Karl Pillemer’s (2009) study shows demonstrates the relation between various
variables in the organization and employee turnover in the organization. The main emphasis was on
feelings towards the organization, which is referred to like effect. The positive effect resulted in the low
rate of employee turnover and negative affect has led to a high rate of employee turnover.
Anthony R Wheeler, Kenneth J Harris, and Paul Harvey’s (2010) study find out that organizational
effectiveness has a direct impact on job embeddedness. Thus, the organizational effectiveness has a relation
with employee turnover intentions which is mediated by job embeddedness. The organizations with high-
quality work systems have fewer turnover intensions among employees and with poor quality, high levels
study that job performance has an inverse relation with employee turnover and job satisfaction was also
inversely related to employee turnover. And the study didn’t find any relationship between employee
participation in the decision making of the organization. Public Service Motivation has also no relation to
employee turnover.
Christopher M Berry, Ariel M Lelchook and Malissa A Clark’s (2012) meta-analysis study was conducted
to know the relation between lateness, absenteeism and employee turnover. The absenteeism and employee
turnover have a low correlation, that there is a negative relationship between absenteeism and employee
turnover. The high rate of absenteeism has no impact on employee turnover. Similarly, lateness and
Lateness is the propensity for being late or deferring appearance. Being late as a type of unfortunate
behavior might be officially culpable in different courses of action, for example, work environment, school,
justification. By and large, non-attendance is impromptu absences. Absenteeism has been seen as a marker
of poor individual execution, just as a rupture of a certain agreement among workers and managers. It is
viewed as an administrative issue and encircled in financial or semi monetary terms. Later grant tries to
comprehend truancy as a pointer of mental, restorative, or social change in accordance with work. High
truancy in the work environment might be characteristic of poor confidence, however, nonattendances can
likewise be brought about by work environment risks or wiped out structure disorder.
Jason A Grissom, Jill Nicholson Crotty and Lael Keiser’s (2012) conducted a study on the public sector,
to know the effect of gender of the superiors on employee turnover. The study gave an implication that the
employees are more satisfied when they are supervised by the managers of the same gender, which leads
to less turnover. The study was conducted in a school where the male teachers have more job satisfaction
with male principles thus resulting in a low employee turnover rate. Thus, the study implies that employee
turnover has a relationship with the gender of the superiors in the organization.
Archana Sukla, R. Srinivasan, and Swati Chaurasia’s (2013) research was a study on the effect of job
satisfaction, organization commitment and work attitudes on the intentions to leave the organization,
directly and indirectly. The work attitudes differ in various contexts, thus as a varying effect on turnover.
Job satisfaction and commitment have an indirect relation to employee turnover. The employee turnover
goes down with high job satisfaction. But the work attitude effects cannot be predicted.
Job Satisfaction:
Job fulfillment is characterized as the degree to which a worker feels self-propelled, content and happy
with his/her activity. Occupation fulfillment happens when a worker feels the individual in question is
having work soundness, profession development, and an agreeable work-life balance. This infers the
representative is having fulfillment at employment as the work meets the desires of the person.
Lamar Pierce and Jason A Snyder’s (2014) study state that unethical demand among the customers has a
direct impact on the turnover of the employees. It also states that organizational norms implemented strictly
also increases the turnover rate and on the other hand organization fraud results in less employee attrition.
The study does specify the importance of framing the organization’s ethics with due consideration to
Michael Walsh’s (2015) research which is conducted at Tesco, the employee turnover states that the main
reasons behind turnover are stress, compensation issues, reward policy, communication gap, and HR
policies. The after-effects of the turnover are increased in the workload of the organization, affected the
morale of the workforce, negative influence on other employees to leave their jobs too, but didn’t affect
their productivity. Michael Walsh gave suggestions that an organization must have enough resources to
provide for employees at the time of heavy workload, to provide more career advancement opportunities
Alexandro Beato (2017) aimed his research on retail store leaders, to explore the effective strategies used
by managers to reduce employee turnover. He emphasized the importance of identifying the right strategy
for solving the problem of employee turnover. The study stressed the ways that the managers in the
organization can form a strategy and implement in the organization to reduce employee turnover, to
Shinwoo Lee’s (2018) study which was held in the U.S. FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY, implies that job
satisfaction and employee turnover share a positive relationship and contracting out has a direct impact on
employee turnover intention. Shinwoo Lee stresses the importance of supervision, providing challenging
work to increase job satisfaction, restricting the contracting out in the organization to increase the morale
of the employees, providing proper guidance for growth and also strategizing carefully according to
different forms of turnover and causes of turnover. The research also mentions that involuntary turnover is
not any harm to the organization as it replaces incompetent employees with efficient employees ensuring
Employee termination for poor job performance, absenteeism or violation of workplace policies is called
involuntary turnover – also referred to as termination, firing or discharge. It’s involuntary because it wasn’t
the employee’s decision to leave the company. Layoffs could also be considered involuntary terminations,
though layoff procedures usually are handled differently from termination. Some layoffs have certain
federal and state provisions that aren’t afforded to employees who are fired because of performance or
policy violations.
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION:
Table 1.1:
Gender No of Responses Percentage
Male 12 60%
Female 8 40%
Graph 1.1:
Among the 20 respondents, 12 are male employees and 8 are female employees. That is 60% are male
Table 1.2:
The age of the employees lies between 24 and 42. The majority of the employees interviewed are between
Table 1.3:
The respondents are of various designations. Few are software engineer, associate software engineer,
senior software engineer, team leader and one each of associate manager and manager. This would help to
Table 1.4:
Single 13 65%
Married 7 35%
Graph 1.4:
Among the respondents, the marital status of 65% is single and 35% is married. It does have an impact on
employee turnover.
Table 1.5:
The tenure of the respondents in their current organization is, 25% have more than 5 years of tenure, 20%
have 3 years to 5 years of tenure, 40% have 1 year to 3 years of tenure and 15% have less than 1 year of
tenure. This shows that employee turnover at Accenture is not at a high rate, as the employee’s tenure is
high.
Table 1.6:
The above graph shows the tenure of the respondents in their previous organizations. 65% of the
respondents have not worked anywhere else other than Accenture. This indicates that employee turnover
at Accenture is low, as employees have been working for many continuous years.
Table 1.7:
Among the 20 respondents, 13 respondents have not worked in any other organization. The other 7
respondents left the organization due to having no scope for growth as said by 15%, and unsatisfying
salary and incentives as said by 15%. The salaries and incentives, career growth does play a very
1.8 THE FACTORS WHICH HAVE INFLUENCED THE DECISION TO LEAVE THE
PREVIOUS JOB:
Table 1.8:
From the above graph, we can derive the factors that influence employee decisions regarding their tenure
in an organization. Salaries and incentives, working conditions and career growth are the main factors.
The low salary, poor working conditions, and low career growth would motivate the employee to leave
the organization.
Table 1.9:
The above graph shows that 45% of the respondents strongly agree that spouse relocation as an effect on
employee turnover. 40% agree with the same. And 15% have a neutral approach. But, none of the
Table 1.10:
60% of the respondents disagreed that the gender of the superiors doesn’t have any impact on employee
turnover. 20% of the respondents strongly disagreed. Only 5% of the respondents agreed. This indicates
that the gender of the superiors will not have any impact on employee turnover.
ORGANIZATION:
Table 1.11:
The respondents have mentioned the factors that would influence the employees to retain in the
organization. The main factors that motivate positively are salary and incentives, the scope for career
growth, respect, and recognition and challenging work. 70% of the respondents gave career growth and
Table 1.12:
The above graph shows that 65% of the respondents said that low salaries and incentives are the major
reason behind the high employee turnover. Organizational politics and the working environment also play
a role in employee turnover. Work-life balance is also one of the reasons behind employee turnover. And
respondents have said that training is not the reason behind the employee turnover. This indicates that the
factors and facilities after the training phase are important in decision making by employees.
Table 1.13:
the above graph shows that 60% of the respondents think that job-hopping is the same as employee
turnover. Job hopping is a pattern of changing companies every year or two of one's own volition rather
Table 1.14:
The above graph shows various strategies to reduce employee turnover as suggested by the respondents.
Most of the respondents have said that good pay with incentives and recognition along with respect are
the major strategies that would help the organization retain its employees.
Table 1.15:
All the respondents have said that the implementation of 3R’s, Recognition, Respect, and Reward would
1.16 THE BENEFITS THAT YOU ARE GETTING IN THE CURRENT ORGANIZATION AS
Most of the respondents did not work in any other organization, other than Accenture. Seven respondents
who have worked in other organizations said various factors that weren’t available in their previous
organization and which made them retain in the current organization. The factors are better salary, career
growth, flexibility, incentives, better working conditions, respect, and recognition. The most mentioned
ORGANIZATION:
60% of the respondents said that they would like to continue in the current organization since they are
getting good pay with incentives and a better scope for career growth. The job satisfaction of this 60 % of
respondents is very high. 40% of the respondents said that their job satisfaction is moderate. If given a
better package, they would like to change the organization. Most of the respondents are very much
60% of the respondents said that the Notice period is a barrier since it wouldn’t help the employees to
switch jobs immediately. 40% of the respondents said that it’s an advantage as it gives time to make
transitions and get settled. The manager said that its an advantage to the organization since it gives time to
motivate and retain the employees and settle everything or to get a new employee for the position.
TURNOVER:
The respondents gave various suggestions to reduce employee turnover and to retain the employees. The
respondents said that better pay, treating everyone equally, recognition of the hard work, respecting each
one, and giving career development opportunities would help the organization to reduce its employee
turnover. These are the strategies that would the organization to retain the employees.
The data collected from the various research papers helped to understand the employee turnover reasons
and problems in depth in an organization. The data collected showed what plays a major role in employee
turnover. The data helped to understand the importance of identifying the reasons behind employee
turnover and forming strategies to reduce employee turnover. The data gave a wide scope on the employee
turnover and its effects on the productivity of the organization. The data in the research papers were
collected from primary resources which gave accurate results and comparison.
RESEARCH GAP:
The above research papers depict the relationship between employee turnover in the organization and
various other common factors like job satisfaction, employer-employee relationship, work quality, career
growth opportunities, work environment, and ethics. The research on employee turnover has been based
on the same reasons. These might be the main and most common reasons behind employee turnover, but
in the fast-growing economy, there are many other reasons which need to be identified and addressed.
Many of the above research papers stated the reasons for the employee turnover and not the
recommendations or strategies. The qualitative data collected from the respondents restricts to a small
group and one single organization. And many factors, strategies, and suggestions given by the respondents
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:
To know the reasons behind the employee turnover in the organizations, literature from various areas of
job satisfaction, ethics at the workplace, relationship management in the organization are reviewed.
Qualitative research methods are used to know the answers to the research questions by collecting the data
from various research papers that are published in the past, in relation to the above fields and employee
turnover and through personal interviews of employees at Accenture. The collected data is analyzed to
know the effect of various factors in the organization on employee turnover. Most of the data collected are
secondary research data and historical in nature. The collected data helped to understand the main reasons
behind the employee turnover and the after-effects of the employee turnover.
FINDINGS:
1. The employees who were emotionally attached to the organization have a high tenure rate in the
organization.
2. Job satisfaction, job commitment, work quality, and relationship management have an inverse
3. Strict work ethics, distorted communication, dissatisfactory policies have a direct relationship with
employee turnover.
7. The behavior of the customers in the market also has an indirect effect on employee turnover.
8. Employee morale and fraudulent behavior also impact the turnover rate in organizations.
9. The employees need challenging work and career growth opportunities to retain in the organization.
10. There is a positive relationship between contracting out and employee turnover.
11. Proper guidance and supervision by managers will reduce the employee turnover in the organization.
12. The involuntary turnover does no harm to the organization and its productivity since the company
13. Salaries, incentives, career development opportunities, recognition at the workplace have the major and
14. Recognition, Respect, and Reward are the major factors that would help to retain the employees.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Organizations should provide managers who would monitor and guide employee productivity.
3. The organizations should give challenging work to the employees to improve their job satisfaction.
4. The organizations should develop beneficial policies for both management and employees and should
be communicated clearly.
5. The proper working environment has to be created to improve the morale of the employees.
6. The main reason for the turnover should be identified to reduce it since the reasons differ from one
workplace to another.
7. The attitude and opinion of the employees towards the organizations should be improved.
LIMITATIONS:
1. The study was based only on secondary data and data collected from interviews of a small group of
respondents.
2. The analysis and recommendations are based on past data and opinions of a few employees.
5. Most of the respondents didn’t work in any other organization, which narrowed the scope of the study.
CONCLUSION:
Turnover can detrimentally affect an association and its workers if the organization the board permits it.
There are instruments to help with tending to the reasons for turnover. Since turnover is regularly utilized
as a presentation pointer, perhaps the preventive measures ought to be also. It is difficult to take out
turnover out and out; therefore, management must figure out how to manage it and the impacts it has on an
organization. In addition, the executives ought to be better arranged to take the best possible activities after
turnover occasion happens. The factors that affect employee turnover should be recognized on time and
strategies have to be planned based on those factors in order to retain the employees. All endeavors ought
to be centered around keeping up representative job satisfaction and overseeing controllable reasons for
turnover. Taking everything into account, the assessment of the work environment condition is vital and
an ordinary framework to catch and evaluate feedback must be set up so as to keep up a sound workplace.
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