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AGE AND VOLUNTARY TURNOVER: A QUANTITATIVE REVIEW
Author(s) -
HEALY MARK C.,
LEHMAN MICHAEL,
MCDANIEL MICHAEL A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1995.tb01760.x
Subject(s) - turnover , psychology , bivariate analysis , turnover intention , demographic economics , social psychology , job satisfaction , management , statistics , economics , mathematics
The bivariate relationship between chronological age and voluntary turnover was examined. Using a database that spans the years 1959‐1993 and contains 46 samples with a total of 42,625 individuals, meta‐analyses were performed. In contrast to previous reviews (Cotton & Tuttle, 1986; Rhodes, 1983), the relationship between age and turnover was small and near zero ( p = ‐.08). Job tenure did not appear to moderate the relationship to any substantial extent. We conclude that age is not meaningfully related to an individual's decision to leave an organization.