by George Leard

Created on: March 15, 2010   Last Updated: April 10, 2010

Why employees leave an organization

Organizations are living breathing entities that transcends generations, and for it to continue to do so, employees will always enter and leave them for diverse reasons. People are employed, when their job fits almost exactly with the companies requirements, especially in the areas of knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Employees may leave an organization, because their performances after a probationary periods or longer, has not matched up with the company standards of performance expectations, and other options has to be sourced through further recruitment processing.

A change may occur in the philosophy or strategies of the leadership of the organization, and as a result, forces certain employees out of the company for ethical or spiritual reasons that they are not comfortable with, or has been made redundant by. Management may decide to recruit from outside the organization, rather than within, thereby forcing several employees to feel disenchanted and useless, and with no other options but to leave.

A new manager, with perhaps less experience than his predecessor, may also decide to make wholesale changes to establish policies, procedures, market strategies, production schedules, pricing structures, % sales commission, and the re-assignment of key personnel, thereby destabilizing the formerly well established working environment. Workers may then  think these are too much for them, and would rather market their skills elsewhere, where they will be better paid and more respectfully treated. This can cause even massive attrition from the companies, leading to reductions of market shares and profitability, and for the companies, before going out of business.

Employees with exceptional skills, may leave due to attractive offers from competing firms, keen on gaining insights into the operating formulas that are used to produce outstanding market leading products. Companies without contractual legal protection in this case, may suffer heavily, even to the point of liquidation, causing thousands of employees to lose their jobs.

Companies with poor fiscal management, that are not able to ensure continually that they are able to pass the acid ratio test regarding their assets and liabilities, may be taken over by the Federal Government, and later closed down, causing massive terminations, and increase in the unemployment in specific locations around the country.

Many employees may not be aware, that they are

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