Employee turnover is an important and pervasive feature of the labor market.rnEmployee turnover affects both workers and the firms. Workers experience disruption, the needrnto learn new job-specific skills and find different career prospects. Firms suffer the loss of job specificrnskills, disruption in production and incur the costs of hiring and training new workers.rnTurnover is a serious and costly problem but it is rarely seen as such by the people whorncould take action to prevent it. Often they fail to take action partly because departing employeesrncouch their reasons of leaving in cryptic and euphemistic language. They do so because theyrndistrust the company -often one of their reasons for leaving. Many upper managers believe thatrndeparting employees are going to a better place, and not leaving an undesirable one-sometimesrnbecause that is what they want to believe.rnA high level of Labor Turnover could be caused by many factors such as inadequaternwage levels leading employees to move to competitors; poor morale and low level of motivationrnwithin the workforce; recruiting and seeking the wrong employees in the first place; a buoyantrnlocal labor market offering more attractive opportunities to employees and miss-matchrnbetween employee's personal values, career, goals and plans with the larger corporate culture.rnHigh labor turnover has become a problem for government institutions. Wellrnexperienced and qualified professionals leave position they held in government offices. EthiopiarnRoads Authority is one of the victims of this high labor turnover. Currently the Ethiopian RoadsrnAuthority is facing a frequent turnover of staff, and as such the high turnover is costing thernauthority in terms of productivity, money and time.