<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Employee turnover accompanies every business organization, regardless of the industry and size. Nowadays, many companies struggle with problems related to the lack of sufficient information about the nature of employee turnover processes. Therefore, comprehensive analysis of these processes is necessary. This article aims to examine the turnover of employees from a big manufacturing company using competing risks models with covariates and without covariates. This technique allows to incorporate the information about the type of employment contract termination. Moreover, Cox proportional hazard model enables the researcher to analyse simultaneously multiple factors that affect employment duration. One of the major observations is that employee remuneration level differentiates most strongly the risk of job resignation.</p></abstract>

Employee turnover accompanies every business organization, regardless of the industry and size. Nowadays, many companies struggle with problems related to the lack of sufficient information about the nature of employee turnover processes. Therefore, comprehensive analysis of these processes is necessary. This article aims to examine the turnover of employees from a big manufacturing company using competing risks models with covariates and without covariates. This technique allows to incorporate the information about the type of employment contract termination. Moreover, Cox proportional hazard model enables the researcher to analyse simultaneously multiple factors that affect employment duration. One of the major observations is that employee remuneration level differentiates most strongly the risk of job resignation.

Estimation of Employee Turnover with Competing Risks Models

Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Economic Analysis, Institute of Statistics and Demography, Madalińskiego 6/8, 02-513 Warsaw, Poland

Independent analyst, Tukana 11a, 02-843 Warsaw, Poland

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia

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Employee turnover accompanies every business organization, regardless of the industry and size. Nowadays, many companies struggle with problems related to the...

Estimation of Employee Turnover with Competing Risks Models

Publié en ligne: 30 avr. 2016

Pages: 53 - 65

Reçu: 28 avr. 2015

Accepté: 22 nov. 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/foli-2015-0035

Mots clés
employee turnover, enterprise, competing risks model, Cox model, partial likelihood estimation

© 2015 University of Szczecin

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Estimation of Employee Turnover with Competing Risks Models

Publié en ligne: 30 avr. 2016

Pages: 53 - 65

Reçu: 28 avr. 2015

Accepté: 22 nov. 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/foli-2015-0035

Mots clésemployee turnover, enterprise, competing risks model, Cox model, partial likelihood estimation

© 2015 University of Szczecin

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
employee turnover, enterprise, competing risks model, Cox model, partial likelihood estimation