Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is turnover, why is it important, and how is it measured? -- Turnover consequences -- Causes and correlates of turnover -- Complex theories of employee turnover -- The psychology of staying: job embeddedness -- New perspectives on classic turnover antecedents -- Research streams on understudied turnover antecedents -- Methodological approaches in turnover research -- Controlling employee turnover -- Diversity and global research on turnover -- Future research directions.

"An up-to-date, scholarly perspective on the increasingly global phenomenon of employee turnover, Employee Retention and Turnover analyses classic and modern theory and research on why employees stay and leave, examining the foundation and looking toward future directions of retention and turnover research. New models such as the job embeddedness theory, proximal withdrawal states, and context-emergent turnover theory have inspired great shifts in thinking on turnover; this book covers these latest theories and findings and considers international differences in turnover predictors and models"--