1.
LRK Krishnan
– Adjunct Professor (OB/HR, ER & LL) at the SB University Pune, India.
2.
AV Raman
– Assistant Professor (OB/HR) at the IIM Kashipur, India.
3.
Poorani Sundarrajan
– Assistant Professor at the Department of MBA, Savitha Engineering college Chennai
Abstract
This article unpacks employee turnover
in the AI age through a meta-analysis of
high-impact journals. The literature on
turnover highlights contextual factors,
including power dynamics, toxic work
environments, mental and emotional disconnection,
limited career prospects, job
monotony, and extrinsic motivators such
as compensation. Consolidating the literature
on turnover through a massive
meta-analysis of A category in HRM-related
journals, followed by a field study
interpreting quantitative inputs, from a
stratified random sample of 100 respondents
from the leading IT industry software
engineers from Chennai. Results reveal
that a sense of purpose has a moderating
influence on job satisfaction, but
surprisingly, counterintuitively, job satisfaction
alone cannot retain employees.
A combination of several intrinsic and
extrinsic motivators are required to enhance
the employee’s psychological con-
