As satisfaction-based models have proven to be poor predictors of employees actually leaving, researchers have moved to the concept of job embeddedness to explain why people stay with their organizations.

Job embeddedness looks beyond the traditional factors of satisfaction and commitment that have typically been considered to retain people in organizations. It looks at connections to both the organization and external community and how they tie people to their organizations, influencing their decisions to stay.

In BC HRMA’s latest Research Briefing, we look at job embeddedness in a different way. The briefing summarizes recent research exploring the impact of job embeddedness on employee performance rather than employee retention and examines further implications for the construct of job embeddedness and how it should be considered and managed by organizations.

Read the full briefing.

Research Briefings are a service from BC HRMA’s research group. Our aim is to make it easier and quicker for HR professionals to find and apply the latest and best people management insight to their challenges and projects. This paper contains a concise and practical summary of a recent academic finding that should shape your HR practices.