Turnover of Information Technology Professionals: A Narrative Review, Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling, and Model Development

A Systematic Review on Information Technology Personnel’s Turnover

“…Retaining IS/IT personnel is vital to organizations as they often hold tacit knowledge about how internal systems operate. IS turnover rates are in excess of 30% in some countries [1], raising serious concerns among IS practitioners and scholars. This problem worsens as the IS/IT labor market tightens due to the exponential growth of IS/IT applications in organizations and the continuing decline in the supply of IS/IT graduates [2].…”

“…strong need for this paper was the fact that previous literature-based research on the topic -e.g. [1]-have not covered a comprehensive body of research published to provide a big picture of the available resources on IS/IT personnel's intention to leave.`…”

How and Why Do IT Entrepreneurs Leave Their Salaried Employment to Start a SME? A Mixed Methods Research Design

“…Regarding the literature on IT personnel turnover, Joseph et al identified a total of 43 constructs related to IT turnover intentions [3]. They classified these constructs into the following groups: desire to move, ease of movement, job search, individual attributes, job related factors and perceived organizational factors.…”

“…They classified these constructs into the following groups: desire to move, ease of movement, job search, individual attributes, job related factors and perceived organizational factors. Moreover, Joseph et al insist on the necessity of studying those constructs within the context of environmental and organizational factors [3]. Finally, they also recommend considering new models such as the unfolding model of voluntary turnover, [4] and job embeddedness theory, [5] to address the weak relationship between intention and actual behavior.…”

“…This gap motivates our research as new constructs are very likely to emerge from any qualitative studies on this topic. In addition, it is well documented that both employee turnover and the creation of new ventures can be analysed using process models -the turnover process, [3] and the entrepreneurial process, [12], [13], respectively. Consequently, we seek to acquire in-depth knowledge of the IT entrepreneur's perspective using grounded theory methods (e.g.…”