Predicting and explaining employee turnover intention

• DOI: 10.1007/s41060-022-00329-w
• Publication Date: 2022-05-23T19:05:35Z
• Authors: Matilde Lazzari; Jose M. Alvarez; Salvatore Ruggieri
• Keywords: Turnover; Turnover Intention; Causality

Abstract Turnover intention is an employee’s reported willingness to leave her organization within a given period of time and often used for studying actual employee turnover. Since turnover can have detrimental impact on business the labor market at large, it important understand determinants such choice. We describe analyze unique European-wide survey intention. A few baselines state-of-the-art classification models are compared as per predictive performances. Logistic regression LightGBM rank top two performing models. investigate importance features these models, means Further, we overcome traditional correlation-based analysis by novel causality-based approach support potential policy interventions.