(Texas A&M News: College Station, TX) -- It’s complicated, an employee’s decision to leave a job—even more complicated than previously believed, Texas A&M University researchers concluded after conducting research on when job searches result in turnover.

As expected, turnover was higher when employees had lower levels of “embeddedness” and job satisfaction, and higher levels of available alternatives. What wasn’t expected, or previously explained, was that there is more complexity to the process than believed, and specifically, that these factors play a key role in whether search behavior actually results in the decision to quit.

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