MOVING ON OUT - WHEN ARE EMPLOYEES WILLING TO FOLLOW THEIR ORGANIZATION DURING CORPORATE RELOCATION

This research examines the willingness of employees to follow their or ganization when the entire business unit is geographically relocating. The site for the study was a large government defense agency moving f rom a major U.S. northeastern metropolitan area to a rural area south of Washington, D.C. The study participants were 380 employees who were deciding within the next 6 months if they would relocate, too. Attach ment to the present community, attachment to the current organization, and availability of job market alternatives are the factors most sign ificantly associated with willingness to move during corporate relocat ion. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.