- Title
- Colliding employer-employee perspectives of employee turnover: evidence from a born-global industry
- Creator
- Pereira, Vijay; Malik, Ashish; Sharma, Kajal
- Relation
- Thunderbird International Business Review Vol. 58, Issue 6, p. 601–615
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tie.21751
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Set in the context of internationalization of the global division of labor, this article provides a deeper exploration of qualitative themes of conflicting accounts of employees’ reasons to quit and managerial strategies to prevent employee turnover in six business process outsourcing firms operating in India. Such differences in cognition and action between the two constituencies suggest that the decision to quit is not a linear and rational process as highlighted in most extant models of employee turnover. Our findings suggest that employees are attached more to a place or people they work with rather than the organization per se. Intergenerational differences between Generation Y knowledge workers and Generation X managers and the ineffectiveness of espoused human resource practices suggest the presence of “push” human resource management (HRM) systems. Our findings have implications for employee turnover models, intergenerational theory and high-commitment HRM, and practitioners.
- Subject
- Indian IT/BPO industry; employee turnover; inter-generational differences; HRM; qualitative methodology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1310830
- Identifier
- uon:22099
- Identifier
- ISSN:1096-4762
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Pereira, V., Malik, A. and Sharma, K. (2015), Colliding Employer-Employee Perspectives of Employee Turnover: Evidence from a Born-Global Industry. Thunderbird Int'l Bus Rev, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tie.21751. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
- Language
- eng
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