A Systematic Review of Employee Turnover Antecedents in the Construction Industry
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High turnover is regarded as a failure to fulfil work-life balance, among the approaches to improve employees life quality. This paper conducted a systematic literature review, offers an overview of the present state of research concerning the turnover antecedents in the construction industry. Through the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA), this paper concluded that work-life quality is due to organisation, individual and external antecedent. The recommendations, including the development of life quality strategy and to conduct more employee turnover. This paper assists in improving employees life quality through the identification of adverse outcome of turnover.
Keywords: Construction industry; Employee Turnover; PRISMA
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2100
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