Effects of External Mobility

Certain degree of external mobility is inevitable due to death, retirement, layoff and is also desireable as it enables the flow of efficient human resources into the organisation. But mobility beyond that level confronts managers with many interrelated and knotty problems like deployment and redeployment of human resources among various departments and jobs, increasing rate of accidents and wastage, declining efficiency of employees and overall productivity etc. Though the external mobility is for the betterment of employee in some cases, it causes problems to employees in many cases. These problems include discontinuation in service, loss of salary, disadvantage in getting various fringe benefits which are tied to the length of service like quarters, privilege leave, bonus, loss in retirement benefits etc.
                             Personnel managers have to analyse the causes for mobility and find means to control it in view of its adverse effects on the organisation and employees.