DOES GENERATION MATTER? UNDERSTANDING EMPLOYEE TURNOVER INTENTIONS AND THE MILLENNIAL WORKER

Abstract

Millennials are entering the workforce in droves and quickly becoming dominant players in the workforce. However, this generation has a reputation for their lack of loyalty to their employers and their tendency to job hop from one role to the next. Given the cost to recruit, hire, and train their replacements, it’s imperative to understand what motivates this generation of workers and how to incentivize them to stay with their current employers. The focus of this research is to explore the relationship between employee generation and turnover intentions, and how employee generation interacts with predictors of employee turnover intentions.