Talk:Employee turnover

More Detail Needed in The Article

Employee turnover is a very important concept in Organizational Psychology. I believe it hasen't got its deserved attention from Wikipedians. I have just added section named Models of Employee turnover, which I believe needs extensive extension.

Further more there many areas that need to be included in this article, other than the models. For example a discussion about functional and disfunctional turnover.Sajjad Arif (talk) 12:04, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Issue with wording

If an employer is said to have a high turnover, it most often means that employees of that company have a shorter tenure than those of other companies in that same industry. Similarly, if the average tenure of employees in a particular sector is lower than that in other sectors, that sector can be said to have a relatively high turnover'''.

The above paragraph doesnt make sense. The part in bold is inconsistant with what goes before it and is internally inconsistant. If a sector has a low turnover rate compared to other sectors then does it not have a relativley low turnover rate overall. Not a relativley high one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.239.127.107 (talk) 16:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

The "tenure" of an employee refers to the amount of time they stay. So lower tenure means higher turnover. The statement is not contradictory. However it is redundant as the bold section is just the converse of the first statement. 216.36.186.2 (talk) 19:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Moved content

From the disambiguation page Turnover:

Extended content

• Turnover (employment), relative rate at which an employer gains and loses staff, especially in North American usage. It can be voluntary or involuntary. Employee turnover is often a result of job dissatisfaction. Job dissatisfaction can be in the form of:
  • Low pay
  • being supervised too much
  • not enough responsibility
  • unfair treatment by managers
  • not properly trained for the job
  • Organizational commitment
  • lower sales and profit

When job dissatisfaction is present employees will not be ecstatic to continue with their job; their main goal is to quit. Also, when employees leave an organization, whether voluntary or involuntary, it is very costly for the organization. This is due largely to the fact that after someone leaves a replacement must be recruited, selected and trained and given a probationary period in which to gain experience with the job. Despite turnover being costly for the organization, it can also prove to be better for the organization. When turnover occurs it is mostly employees who perform unsatisfactorily who leaves the organization. Therefore, even though it is costly to hire new employees the organization benefit when poor performing employees leave.

The problem of employee turnover can be dated as far back to the early 19th century. Many scholars, over the years, have developed different models to assess the rate of turnover in the workplace and the cases of these turnovers. Some of these models of turnover includes the:

• Cusp catastrophe model of turnover
• Causal model of turnover
• unfolding model of turnover

These models of turnover, along with others, have been used over the past decades to determine the main contributors to turnover. Once managers are able to assess what are the underlying factors of turnover, they will be able to understand what the employees want and needs and be better able to prevent future turnover. .

jonkerz ♠talk 00:46, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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Lede tone is wrong after recent expansion

The recent expansion was good-faith, but it created a dense wall of a lede that reads like an HR staff training manual, not an encyclopedia. There's a lack of context and significance. I don't have time to work on it right now, but I encourage anyone who does to improve it. Most of the former lede should be restored; the current lede would serve better as a section following the lede. — ¾-10 23:17, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 26 September 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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Turnover (employment) → Employee turnover – This would appear to be a clear WP:NATURAL situation. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:09, 26 September 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 05:05, 4 October 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Arnav Bhate (talk • contribs) 05:51, 15 October 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 06:44, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose current title and weak oppose proposed title. Seems the use of "turnover" in this manner is US-centric. There has to be something else to designate this refers to "turnover" in the US sense rather than the UK sense (which, I believe would be Revenue [US editor here, not sure]), but I can't figure it out at the moment. Steel1943 (talk) 18:56, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

  Thinking on it further, this may be an article content issue rather than an article titling issue, thus why my current stance on the proposed move is "weak oppose". Steel1943 (talk) 19:04, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

  @Steel1943: This seems like the sort of thing that can be resolved by a hatnote without necessarily making major changes. Like "This article refers to the American term. For the British English term, see revenue". ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:44, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

  THREE relists because of me, and no one else responded??? This is silly. I'm just going to withdraw my "vote". Steel1943 (talk) 19:15, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Business has been notified of this discussion. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 05:06, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

• Support. This is the most anticlimactic !vote I think I have ever cast. It seems a no-brainer to me, exactly as nom has said. Andrewa (talk) 10:01, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
• Support: There is a WP:ENGVAR issue for "turnover", but less ambiguity for "employee turnover", and sometimes we need to make a choice, as we do for Truck, Tire and Trunk (car). I don't see a strong need for a hatnote for "employee turnover", since that's not the British term for "revenue". —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 14:56, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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