What are the reasons why employees prefer to resign ?

Because they don't want the word "fired" showing up on their work history.

It's a balance between a good resume and the loss of unemployment compensation, at least around here.

if you have a "fired" work history it is also means you can't easily find a job ?

is the lower compensation is a big issue why employees tend to resign ?

Probably not.

Some will resign in preference to being fired.

Oftentimes, people will resign because of personalities they must work for, or with.

Sometimes people resign because they have found a better job.

I suspect that pay is fairly far down the list.

very well said. thanks for sharing your opinion.

Seven-year itch, sometimes, too. I resigned once just because I was bored with the city, the lifestyle. I moved around for a while and learned to appreciate what I had before, though, and eventually went back. I left the places in between, respectively, because of a) changes in the administration that undermined my autonomy in the classroom, and b) systematic dishonesty in the administration (hidden policies).

My favorite reason would be winning the lottery.

Sometimes they feel it helps them retain their dignity. It can also depend on what the laws are regarding unemployment compensation. In a lot of parts of the United States you can't get unemployment $$ (or it's severely restricted) if you voluntarily separate from your place of employment.

There are also people who leave because they want to raise their kids, and they would make less than what they would pay a nanny or for preschool tuition.

which is a fortunate one? nice reason

you mean you dislike the management that's why you resign ?

well you have a point especially if the employee is a girl so she prefer to resign because she wants to take care of her child.

Not exactly, but sort of. They secretly implemented policy changes that had negative effects on me and the other foreigners, in the one case. They took us out of the Humanities dept. and put us in an institute. Suddenly we had a boss who wasn't even an English teacher, but who was telling us how we had to teach. There was a mass exodus.

In the second case, they implemented a de facto 5-year employment limit (which is illegal here), but lied when confronted about it. My best friend and a co-worker were let go despite having the top two best performance evaluations. Nobody could understand why, except that both of them had completed 5 years and were entitled to bonuses and increased pension. I resigned on principle, since it was only my first year.

Please don't use terms like girl when you're talking about adults. That's not PC; it's a question of accuracy. Unless you are talking about a teenaged parent, the vast, vast majority of parents are adult men and women and should be referred to as such in a scholarly paper.

Oh, and men become stay at home parents, too.

thanks for informing me. I will keep that in mind

unmanaged, i think..

what do you mean unmanaged? is it the lack of training ?

It depends on the situation, Want to Switch Company for better proposal or not comfortable with the job.