Insights on Employee Turnover: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Purpose:  The purpose of this bibliometric study is to analyze, realize, and identify the scope of research on employee turnover, as well as to indicate the growth and development of this area of study as it appears in the Scopus database. The fundamental goal of this study is to undertake a thorough bibliometric review of research on the application, identification, network structure, and conceptual framework of employee turnover.   Design/methodology/approach: After doing extensive research online, we located the best available articles. The studies used for the review were located using the Scopus database. From 1957 to 2023, a total of 2904 articles were located and whittled down to 1948 papers. With the aid of the R programming language and the VOS viewer software, we have analyzed each piece of writing from multiple angles, including authorship, citation, conceptual structure, co-word occurrence, trend topics analysis, thematic map, and visualization.   Findings: A strategic thematic map was used to identify motor themes, basic transversal themes, specialty themes, and emerging and decreasing topics. The findings of the study revealed significant progress in the study of employee turnover during the previous 67 years of literature. This work also serves as a resource for researchers to use in the years to come. This research utilized relational methods such as co-word, co-author, co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and thematic map analysis to identify new areas of inquiry. According to the relational method, "employee turnover" and "turnover intention" are key components that link to other commonly used phrases in the reviewed research.   Originality: The interest of academics and businesspeople in studying the factors that contribute to employee turnover has led to a boom in this area of study during the past two decades. This research goes farther than previous efforts in evaluating the scientific development of articles in employee turnover, including a closer look at the individuals and methods used in the process. An annual growth rate of 7.25% was also found for researchers' joint, multi-author, and interdisciplinary endeavors. Overall, this research improves our knowledge of employee turnover and offers different insights.   Social implications: It enlightens future scholars on the new topics, settings, and potential for interdisciplinary work in this field. It draws attention to the most pressing concerns in the field and points the way to promising avenues for future study. This study has the potential to contribute significantly to the study of employee turnover and its causes