Voluntary employee turnover has caused considerable damage to small construction businesses, significantly affecting productivity, profitability, and sustainability. Based on job embeddedness theory, this qualitative multiple case study aimed to explore strategies small construction business owners use to reduce voluntary employee turnover. Participants were 4 successful small construction business owners in Virginia who successfully implemented strategies that reduced voluntary employee turnover by 75% over 5 years. Data were collected from company documents and semi-structured interviews. The three primary themes that emerged from the data analysis were; effective human resource management, favorable working conditions, and employee engagement. A key recommendation for small construction business owners is to improve human resource management, working conditions, and employee engagement. Reducing voluntary employee turnover is critical to business cost reduction and increasing key business processes’ performance. In addition, small construction business owners may use the results of this study to offer job stability to employees and increase families' and governments' incomes to realize some basic projects from revenue generated by employees’ vast career opportunities.

In today’s business environment, innovation has become strategic for any organization to survive. This empirical study aimed to analyze the relationship between innovation and performance in the law firm industry. The sample size of this study was GKJ Law Firm based in Washington, DC. Data were collected from the organization’s financial reports from 2010 to 2022. The results of the data analysis revealed a significant correlation between innovation and performance. The results indicated that using innovation theory enabled GKJ Law Firm to develop innovative strategies to sustain performance. The results also showed that innovation increases the organization’s viability and credibility. The implications of this study for positive social change include the potential to enhance tax revenues for the government and improve positive social change by promoting the benefit of legal compliance in local communities.