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What Is Wrong With Turnover Research? Commentary on Russell's Critique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Peter W. Hom  and
Rodger W. Griffeth
Peter W. Hom*
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Rodger W. Griffeth
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
*
E-mail: peter.hom@asu.edu, Address: Department of Management, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4006
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Dr. Russell (2013) provocatively critiqued turnover research, expressing a sentiment that we share—namely, the lamentable modest predictability of turnover. All the same, we disagree with certain criticisms of turnover theory, methodology, and practicality. We organize our reactions into sections: predictive validity for the standard turnover criterion; other criteria for model evaluation; incremental validity controlling quit intentions; Russell's proposed methodology, the potential biases of the Russell and Van Sell (2012) test; and an alternate approach by Hom, Mitchell, Lee, and Griffeth (2012).

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 174 - 181
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2013

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