Bridge Burning and the six other ways to quit your job

Just as Paul Simonsang about 50 ways to leave your lover, anew study published in theJournal of Applied Psychology suggests there are seven ways to leave your employer. This research is the first to give us a map of "resignation styles," as well as their causes and their impact on others.The researchers Anthony Klots and Mark Bolino generated their taxonomy of resignation styles from several sources, including a survey of 53 students who described the way they resigned from a previous full-time job position and 423 more people surveyed online who had resigned from their full-time job in the past year, 38 per cent of whom were women, average age 38. Here are the seven styles of saying “I quit” that the researchers identified:The most common (31 per cent) wasBy The Book, involving a face to face conversation accompanied by a resignation letter, openness about the reason for departure, and a standard notice period.29 per cent took aPerfunctory approach – going through the motions above, but in a clinical fashion, without elaborating on their reasons for leaving.Grateful Goodbyes (nine per cent) were positive and involved willingness to make the departure as painless as possible for the supervisor and team.In eight per cent of cases, the supervisor was keptIn The Loop, with the resignation the culmination of a process that was out in the open, such as applications and acceptance to graduate school.Nine per cent of cases wereAvoidant, minimising contact with the boss through...
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