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Book SynopsisRetaining top talent is a universal concern that is increasingly global. However, the context, meaning, and mechanisms for changing jobs varies around the world. Global Talent Retention: Understanding Employee Turnover Around the World provides the first context-specific global perspective on retaining talent.
Although extensive research informs understanding of why employees decide to leave or remain with organizations, the bulk of theory and research adopts a U.S.-centric perspective, problematic because most employees do not work for firms that are U.S.-owned or based. Global Talent Retention addresses the need for turnover theory and research to give more careful consideration to global and cross-cultural perspectives on employee retention, and includes contributions from a global range of scholars in differing cultural contexts in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
The chapters represent many of the largest and most dynamic economies in the world, including Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Germany, India, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, and the UK. Each chapter provides a description of the institutional, legal, and cultural context as it relates to employee mobility, a review of context-specific research leading to a description of how the mechanisms of prominent turnover theories may operate differently in particular contexts, and the implications for research and practice related to employee turnover and retention.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Global Talent Retention: Understanding Employee Turnover Around the World; David G. Allen and James M. Vardaman
Chapter 2. Turnover and Retention in the UK: Change, Uncertainty and Opportunity; Helen Shipton, Zara Whysall, and Catherine Abe
Chapter 3. The Contextualization of Employee Retention Research in China; Mian Zhang and Xiyue Ma
Chapter 4. Culture, Labor Market, and Employee Turnover in South Korea: Taking Stock and Moving Forward; Daejeong Choi, Owwon Park, and Sangsuk Oh
Chapter 5. Globalization and Employee Turnover: The Case of Bulgaria; Minna Paunova and Blagoy Blagoev
Chapter 6. Voluntary Employee Turnover: The Stepchild of German HR and Organizational Psychology Research; Nicolas Tichy and Ingo Weller
Chapter 7. Employee Turnover and Retention in Mexico and Latin America; Richard A. Posthuma, Claudia Noemí Gonzáles Brambila, Eric D. Smith, and Yang Zhang
Chapter 8. Voluntary Turnover in the Spanish Cultural and Institutional Context; Rocío Bonet, Marta Elvira, and Stefano Visintin
Chapter 9. Employee Turnover in Turkey; Gamze Koseoglu, S. Arzu Wasti, and Hilal Terzi
Chapter 10. Turnover in Denmark: Between ‘Flexicurity’ and Collective Voice; Lotte Holck and Minna Paunova
Chapter 11. Employee Turnover in India: Insights from the Public-Private Debate; Kunal Kamal Kumar, Sushanta Kumar Mishra, and Pawan Budhwar
Chapter 12. Turnover in South Africa: The Effect of History; Albert Wöcke and Helena Barnard
