Towards predicting employee turnover using a relational perspective: Adapting mixed-methods from marital research

Although workforce changes can have beneficial aspects, organisations with high turnover are significantly outperformed by rivals. Indeed, employee turnover can have adverse effects on both the employing organisation and the leaving employees. The exte nsive literature on turnover has identified many factors leading to unwanted employee turnover, however existing methods of predicting if and when turnover will occur rarely offer accuracy greater than 50%.