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How do Leader Departures Affect Turnover Among Those Employees Left Behind?

Author
Hausknecht, John
Abstract
[Excerpt] In large organizations, mid-level unit leaders regularly vacate their positions for a variety of reasons, including promotions, transfers, quits, and terminations. Certainly there are reasons to expect that these departures have residual effects – both positive and negative – on the units involved. Surprisingly, though, researchers have thus far paid scant attention to these dynamics. The present study takes a major step toward filling this void. Specifically, it looks at data from 287 locations of a company in the food and hospitality industry to examine the extent to which succession patterns among mid-level unit leaders influence both short- and longer-term voluntary turnover rates among core employees in the affected entities.
Date Issued
2017-06-01Subject
human resources; HR; leader; leadership development; talent management; turnover; departures; voluntary turnover; HR operations; unit leader; data; training; replacement leaders; learning; high performing unit leaders; internal replacements; external replacements
Type
article
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