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The Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting — Summary of an Academic Article
My experience in corporate America and my transition to academia have taught me how important research is, but not in the way academics think. Of course, academics need to conduct research, and the research should be presented in a form easily digestible for the nonacademic. This publication aims to provide an overview of one academic article in less than three minutes.
Article:
What it says:
There are three causes and solutions to the Great Resignation and Quite Quitting: needs being fulfilled, value alignment, and purpose.
Although the article is about the hospitality industry, the article’s findings apply to other industries.
Needs.
An employee needs satisfaction is directly correlated with employee engagement, retention, stress reduction, life satisfaction, and positive energy at work.
Values.
In organizations, values can be integrated using four steps: identifying personal values, determining person-organization fit, aligning values and behavior, and understanding and…