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Issue:	Volume 52, Number 3 June 2009
Title:	Turnover contagion: How coworkers’ job embeddedness and coworkers’ job search behaviors influence quitting
Authors:	Will Felps, David R. Hekman, Terence R. Mitchell, Thomas W. Lee, Wendy S. Harman, Brooks C. Holtom
Abstract:	This research develops and tests a model of turnover contagion in which an employee’s decision to quit is influenced by the job embeddedness and job search behaviors of his or her coworkers. In a sample of 45 branches of a regional bank and 1,038 departments of a national hospitality firm, multilevel analysis revealed that coworkers’ job embeddedness and job search behaviors explain variance in individual voluntary turnover over and above other individual and group-level predictors. Broadly speaking, these results suggest that coworkers’ job embeddedness and job search behaviors play critical roles in explaining why people quit their jobs. Implications are discussed.

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