An Unfolding Model Of Employee Voluntary Turnover In China: Improvements And Empirical Study

With the reform, opening-up and economy transition in China, and the advent of Knowledge Economy, the employee turnover in China's enterprises has brought more and more annoyance to human resource managers, and has drawn more and more attention from practitioners and scholars. But quantitative studies on employee voluntary turnover, which has been mature in western countries, are found few in domestic literatures currently.This dissertation reviews the literature on voluntary turnover at home and abroad. Based on the Lee et al. (1999)'s unfolding model of voluntary turnover and through the exploratory study, the dissertation concludes that the Lee et al.(1999)'s model can be tested in Chinese employees, points out the issues about culture factors on voluntary turnover in China, and therefore modifies the Lee et al.(1999)'s model. The modified model is empirically tested among youth staffs in Wuhan who are below 35 and have experience of voluntary turnover. Finally, this research puts forward several suggestions on employee retainment.This dissertation includes five parts. The first part reviews the history of the ideas of career and voluntary turnover from the reform and opening-up in China, and brings forward that it is necessary to study voluntary turnover of Chinese employees in the process of China transition. The second part analyses the background of the turnover study, introduces the research goals and significations of this research, defines the concept of voluntary turnover and reviews the existing research literatures. The third part describes the research frame and the Lee et al.(1999)'s model, constructs and variables. Through the exploratory study, new variables are introduced, and therefore the model is partly modified. In this part, this paper develops the hypotheses,, the questionnaire and scales and collects the data. In the fourth part, this paper employs- SPSS to analyse the data, tests the hypotheses separately and gets the conclusions. The last part gives the conclusion of the whole study, based on which this dissertation indicates the implications on practice. At the end of this paper, the innovations, the limitations and the future directions of the study are brought forward.