Research On The Relationship Between Employee Personal Characteristics And Voluntary Turnover Decision Path

This disseration based on the Lee et.al(1999)'s unfolding model of voluntary turnover。It focus on the relationship between employee personal characteristics and the voluntary turnover decision path.Two studies were conducted to address the hypothesis. The first study was a retrospective and involved MBA students.The second was a longitudinal study that included new employee in a chemical research institute.Both of these studies used a similar assessment of individual charateristics and the same measure for classfying turnover decisions.The data were gained by suvey method from two samples and the results of the study were as follow:(1)Individuals low in conscientiouseness will be more likely to leave an organzation without searching for or considering other alternatives They will incline to choose the paths1,2 and 4a.(2)People who owning a house will be more deliberate about making a decision to leave an organization and more likely to seek out or consider other alternatives to the job.They will use paths3 and 4b.(3)An additional path will be included in the Unfolding Model,that is shocks are perceived to be positive will be lead to a decision path that does not include the experience of image violations but does include a search for or consideration of alternatives to the job.(4)More of the quit decisions will be classified as resulting from shaocks than from dissatisfaction.