Turnover Intention and Turnover Behavior: Implications for Retaining Federal Employees

As the retirement wave of Baby Boomers approaches, retaining newly hired, mid-career, and retirement-eligible employees will be nearly as crucial as hiring top-quality new people. Using two large data sets on federal employees, we focus on whether human resource management (HRM) practices can affect...

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Published in:Review of public personnel administration 2012-03, Vol.32 (1), p.4-23
Main Authors: Cho, Yoon Jik, Lewis, Gregory B.
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Baby boomers
Careers
Employee attitude
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Employment practices
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Human resource management
Human Resources
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Retirement
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Human resource management
Human Resources
Joint ventures
Management
Retirement
Studies
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