Generation-Y Employees’ Turnover: Work-Values Fit Perspective

Abstract

With the increased acceptability of generational differences at the workplace, generation-Y employees are beginning to become featured at the workplace, with radical changes in their work values. In the case of Malaysia, theorists and practitioners are keenly interested to investigate the reasons behind one of this workplace related behaviours, which is high turnover stemming, particularly from this cohort, due to organisational and economic benefits of retaining such employees. This conceptual paper attempts to address generation-Y’s high turnover intention from the perspective of Person-Environment fit. This generation may experience lack of fit with communicated or supplied work values, as many of its work values are not well known to employers. However, it is not substantiated which type of work values fit may impact the behavioural intention for the generation Y workforce. However, this paper elaborates how each work values fit may or may not affect the decision to quit