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Research shows the reasons for employee departures are, in descending order…

1. Employee/manager relationship
2. Inability to use core skills
3. Not able to impact the organization’s goals, mission
4. Frequent reorganizations; lack of control over career
5. Inability to “grow and develop”
6. Employee/organization values misalignment
7. Lack of resources to do the job
8. Unclear expectations
9. Lack of flexibility; no ‘whole life balance’
10. Salary/benefits

Comment by David — March 22, 2007 @ 4:13 pm

Thanks David. Guess the “bad boss” phenomenon is your winner.

Comment by Prakash — March 22, 2007 @ 5:36 pm

Prakash: A RB based poll makes it too simplistic. In my view, it depends on the context. At what stage of career an employee is, role he is playing, work/lack of it, compensation, onsite opportunities etc etc. The triggers for a 2 year experience S/W pro quitting vs a mid mgmt pro quitting are different.