Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Why do low performers leave?

Interesting paper about the investigation performed by Trevor, Hausknecht and Howard, named "Why High and Low Performers Leave and What They Find Elsewhere: Job Performance Effects on Employment Transitions"

Working with a sample of approx. 2.500 former employees of an organization, they find that there is a variety of quit reasons, differing both across and within performance levels.

As the result of testing 9 different working hypothesis, they end in a list of reasons, clasified on relative importance for the leaver.

We can consider that they confirm what anyone could expect based on common sense:

The quit reason importance ranking is,

For High performers:
  • Advance Opportunity
  • Pay
  • Opportunity to use skills

For Average Performers:
  • Supervisor
  • Pay
  • Advance Opportunity

For Low performers:
  • Supervisor
  • Working hours
  • Advance Opportunity

Nothing new under the sun, but this time properly supported by statistical tests.

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