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| The act of keeping employees; retaining good workers is particularly important. |
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| Employee Separation (244) |
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| The act of terminating the employment of workers. |
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| Dysfunctional Turnover (249) |
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| Undesirable employee turnover that occurs when good employees quit. |
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| Employee separation that occurs because the employee chooses to leave. |
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| Involuntary Turnover (248) |
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| Employee separation that occurs because the employer chooses to terminate the employment relationship. |
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| Employees' feelings and beliefs about the quality of their jobs. |
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| The process that occurs when employees begin to distance themselves from the organization by working less hard and planning to quit. |
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| Face-to-face discussion conducted by an organization to learn why an employee is quitting. |
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| The process in which a new employee learns about an organization and develops social relationships with other organizational members. |
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| Perceived Organizational Support (256) |
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| Employees' beliefs about how much their employer values their contributions and cares about their personal well-being. |
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| The extent to which an employee is tied to an organization and to the surrounding community. |
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| Large-scale terminations of employment that are unrelated to job performance. |
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| Widespread layoffs with the objective of permanently reducing the number of employees. |
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| Individuals whose employment is terminated in a layoff. |
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| Work-role centrality (261) |
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| The degree to which a person's life revolves around his or her job. |
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| Individuals who continue to work for an organization when their coworkers are laid off. |
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| Organizational efforts to correct improper behavior of employees. |
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| A set of procedures carried out in accordance with established rules and principles and aimed at ensuring fairness. |
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| Progressive Discipline (266) |
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| Discipline involving successively more severe consequences for employees who continue to engage in undesirable behavior. |
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| Outplacement Services (268) |
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| Professional assistance provided to help employees who have been dismissed to cope with job loss and find new positions. |
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| Severance Compensation (269) |
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| Money provided to an employee as part of a dismissal package. |
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