Why do people leave organizations?

Employees leave organizations because of different reasons. These could be personal or official. Every employee has different reasons for working. The ultimate objective of an employee is to gain benefits (financial and non-financial) out of it.

The most common reasons for leaving an organization can be:

• The job is not what the employee expected to be.
• Job and person mismatch.
• New attractive job and better compensation packages being offered by other companies/competitors.
• Lack of growth opportunities in the job.
• Lack of appreciation by the superiors which will lead to demotivation and lose interest.
• Lack of trust and support in co-workers, seniors and management.
• Stress and work-life balance (Branham, 2005).

Many employees are not happy with recognition and performance appraisal done by the HR department or management. Therefore, they should pay attention to that. The company management must give employees the appropriate remuneration in order to retain these people for a long time.  Many employees are feeling workload pressure and stress. Therefore, the organization should focus on their calm workload in order to reduce the pressure on employees. The relationship between employees and management has to improve (Mathimaran & Kumar, 2017).

Reference:

Branham, L. (2005). The 7 hidden reasons employees leave: how to recognize the subtle signs and act before it's too late. New York, American Management Association.

Mathimaran, K.B. & Kumar, A.A. (2017). KumarEmployee Retention Strategies – An Empirical Research, Global Journal of Management and Business Research: E-Marketing,17(1).