Job embeddedness

The material that follows is organized into seven sections. In the first section, we define job embeddedness. In the second section, we outline a brief history of the emergence of job embeddedness theory in turnover and retention literature through the unfolding model of voluntary employee turnover (Lee & Mitchell, 1994), and we compare it to similar constructs used in turnover and retention research. The third section focuses on the nomological network of job embeddedness. Section four examines job embeddedness in different cultural contexts, and section five focuses on the issues in measuring job embeddedness. In the sixth section of the chapter, we present a critique of the field up until now, and in the final section, we propose practical implications for organizations.