Location

Grand Wailea, Hawaii

Event Website

https://hicss.hawaii.edu/

Start Date

7-1-2020 12:00 AM

End Date

10-1-2020 12:00 AM

Description

Turnover is costly for organizations. While existing research identifies the antecedents and effects of turnover, little research exists on how to identify individuals intending to leave an organization. We hypothesize that individuals with high turnover intention will participate in fewer communication relationships than average, and that individuals prefer communicating with others of similar levels of turnover intention. We use exponential random graph modeling (ERGM) to test our hypotheses on the email and advice networks of a technology company. ERGM allows us to simultaneously examine the effect of individual and dyadic level attributes on network formation. The results support our hypotheses in the email network, but not in the advice network. Our findings imply that organizations should examine their email networks to identify individuals with high turnover intention, and intervene with incentives if they wish to retain the employees.

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The Effect of Turnover Intention on Tie Formation in Online Organization Networks

Grand Wailea, Hawaii

Turnover is costly for organizations. While existing research identifies the antecedents and effects of turnover, little research exists on how to identify individuals intending to leave an organization. We hypothesize that individuals with high turnover intention will participate in fewer communication relationships than average, and that individuals prefer communicating with others of similar levels of turnover intention. We use exponential random graph modeling (ERGM) to test our hypotheses on the email and advice networks of a technology company. ERGM allows us to simultaneously examine the effect of individual and dyadic level attributes on network formation. The results support our hypotheses in the email network, but not in the advice network. Our findings imply that organizations should examine their email networks to identify individuals with high turnover intention, and intervene with incentives if they wish to retain the employees.

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