In this interview, Terry Mitchell talks about research he and Tom Lee have conducted in examining voluntary turnover. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that people quit because they are dissatisfied with their jobs, their research has discovered that this is just one of four reasons why people leave their jobs. He discusses pre-emptive actions …

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In this interview, Debra Shapiro talks about a recent survey that examined why management research is often not applied in management practice. The “lost in translation” problem occurs when academic researchers do not present their results in ways that make sense to practitioners. The “lost before translation” problem occurs when management research does not address …

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