The implications of linking the dynamic performance and turnover literatures

This article examines how the literatures of dynamic performance and the pe rformance-turnover relationship inform each other. The nonrandom performanc e-turnover relationship suggests that dynamic performance studies may be bi ased by their elimination of participants who do not remain for the entire study period. The authors demonstrated that the performance slopes of those who leave an organization differ from the performance slopes of those who remain. This finding suggests that studies of the performance-turnover rela tionship need to consider employee performance trends when predicting turno ver. Replicating and extending the research of D. A, Harrison, M. Virick. a nd S. William (1996), the authors found that performance changes from the p revious month and performance trends measured over a longer time period exp lained variance in voluntary turnover beyond current performance. Finally, the authors showed that performance trends interacted with current performa nce in the prediction of voluntary turnover.