Bolt, EET, Winterton, J orcid.org/0000-0002-9834-4471 and Cafferkey, K (2022) A Century of Labour Turnover Research: A Systematic Literature Review. International Journal of Management Reviews, 24 (4). pp. 555-576. ISSN 1460-8545
Abstract
Labour turnover has been an important research topic in social science over the past century, involving disciplines such as human resource management, industrial relations, organizational behaviour, individual and organizational psychology, economics and health sciences. This paper presents a systematic literature review of voluntary labour turnover, providing an in-depth analysis of 1375 labour turnover studies published up to July 2019 in 142 academic journals listed in the Chartered Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Guide 2018. The analysis of theoretical and empirical labour turnover studies reveals: (1) distinctive foci in the development of labour turnover research over the past hundred years; (2) relative lack of attention to testing specific labour turnover theories; (3) a prevailing quantitative approach to identifying antecedents of labour turnover; (4) increased reliance on turnover intention as a proxy for actual turnover. This paper highlights these trends over time, providing insight into problematic areas from theoretical, methodological and empirical points of view. We suggest avenues for a more productive route to coherent theoretical, methodological and empirical development of labour turnover research.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. International Journal of Management Reviews published by British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2022 15:27 |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2023 23:06 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ijmr.12294 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:185382 |