Uma análise qualitativa da rotatividade voluntária de empregados

Despite being a topic widely studied, voluntary employee turnover still raises many questions and debates. In this sense, the purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the reasons behind the decision to change jobs, expressed by former employees of a large public Brazilian company. The selection of subjects included, on the one hand, younger employees who left before completing 10 years of work in the company and, on the other, more experienced employees who left after 20 years of work. The results showed that, for the younger professionals, the decision to leave was predominantly motivated by extrinsic rewards and by their dissatisfaction with promotion and recognition practices prevailing in the company. For the more experienced, it was decisive the seeking of new professional challenges and the prospect of having their knowledge, acquired over the years, being more valued.