Paper Info
Title
When and who leaves matters: emerging results from an empirical study of employee turnover
Abstract
Background: Employee turnover in GSD is an extremely important issue, especially in Western companies offshoring to emerging nations. Aims: In this case study we investigated an offshore vendor company and in particular whether the employees' retention is related with their experience. Moreover, we studied whether we can identify a threshold associated with the employees' tendency to leave the particular company. Method: We used a case study, applied and presented descriptive statistics, contingency tables, results from Chi-Square test of association and post hoc tests. Results: The emerging results showed that employee retention and company experience are associated. In particular, almost 90% of the employees are leaving the company within the first year, where the percentage within the second year is 50-50%. Thus, there is an indication that the 2 years' time is the retention threshold for the investigated offshore vendor company. Conclusions: The results are preliminary and lead us to the need for building a prediction model which should include more inherent characteristics of the projects to aid the companies avoiding massive turnover waves.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3239235.3267431
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND MEASUREMENT (ESEM 2018)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software Engineering, GSD, Turnover, Project management
Offshoring,Turnover,Descriptive statistics,Systems engineering,Computer science,Information technology,Vendor,Empirical research,Marketing,Employee retention,Project management
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5823-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Panagiota Chatzipetrou1467.54
Darja Šmite2754.50
Rini van Solingen331832.92