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Are all voluntary attritions created equally? Understanding the need to incorporate employee diversity into attrition modeling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2019

William G. Obenauer*
Affiliation:
Ithaca College
*
*Corresponding author. Email: wobenauer@ithaca.edu

Abstract

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© Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2019 

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