Defining Employee Separation:

Employee separation:
“Employee separation” is when an employee leaves the organization. The separation
occurs when the employment relationship is ended. Staffing is an ongoing process it
never stops even employees are hired.

The employer can initiate separation decisions as discharges and layoffs, but the
employees as quits or retirements can also initiate separation. Determining the quality of
the retained work force, it needs to be avoided to view employee separations as a
problem.

Basic reasons of employee separations:

There is a reason obviously that’s why employee separate from an organization. Some of
the reasons are defined as follows –
a. Efficiency Matter:
When there is a continuous pressure to be competitive and efficient, some
employees separate from the organization. Sometimes employees fails to be
competitive as they can not update themselves in their profession while the
competitors are updating themselves and sometimes technological changes make
the existing employees uncompetitive and inefficient.

b. Organizational Conditions:
When organization refuse in employee’s commitment. Companies fails to keep
the commitments with the employees due to many reasons, sometimes it is
managements regular practice so, or sometimes due to some critical situation in
business, or sometimes to take care of more efficient employees.

The organizational characteristics are a kind of indicator that affects work force
separation. Sometimes company layoff makes employee separation in big
manufacturing firms.

Different types of separation:

Separation can be defined in various types depends on reason. Here we have defined
three types of separation as follows –
A. Reductions-in-force
When an organization reduces employees by force. Why this type of separation
happens? Mostly when a firm merges with another firm. After merging with
another firm it may require restructuring. Also to make an organization more cost
competitive an organization reduces its work force.
 A separation can be done due to inefficiency in daily works or activities,
sometimes employee’s lack of adaptability in the marketplace.

B. Turnover
A separation process, that may due to inefficiency in daily works or activities or
lack of adaptability in the marketplace. Turnover can be conducted in three
different ways like –

Involuntary turnover
When employees are asked to leave the company for poor performance or due to
circumstances that cause a reduction-in-force.

Voluntary turnover
When an employee leave the company on his/her own initiative, may be due to
getting better opportunity or some other circumstances.

Beneficial turnover
When higher performing employees are promoted or hired as replacements in the
place of a low performing employee.

A. Retirements
Retirement is a process similar to resignation but mutually appreciated by both
employee and the company, it is possible when the employee worked in a
company for a certain period (Age Discrimination in Employment Act) or
employee cannot work after certain age. On retirement company provides some
benefits to the employee.

Retirement can give some benefits like it creates advancement opportunities for
new employees and reduces salary costs. On the other hand it can cause a loss of
major accumulated information of the company (may be marketplace
information). In this case company can offer the employee to work as consultant
or a part-timer to fill in the gaps of retired employee.