low tumover rate can be detrimental to the financial health of a company and the mental health of its employees.
To get a more integrated view of workforce stability, we mounted a study to investigate the motivations to stay and proper ways to encourage it. Why do employees stay? The brief answer is Inertia." Employees tend to remain with a company until some force causes them to leave. The concept here is very like the concept of inertia in the physical sciences: a body will remain as it is until acted on by a force.
What factors affect this inertia? There are two relevant factors within the company and also two relevant factors outside the company. First, within the company, there is the issue of job satisfaction. Second, there is the "company environment" and the degree of comfort an individual employee feels within it. An employee's inertia is strengthened or weakened by the degree of compatibility between his own work ethic and the values for which the company stands. The
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