Separation of employee from the organization is natural. When a person entered into an organization for work, it is the dictate of the nature that he/she will leave the organization one day due to no other reason but age or death. Separation may happen other willful reasons too, such as resignation or dismissal etc. Whatever the reason, separation of employee is inevitable. Human resource management has to deal with it with necessary policy and rules to make the separation comfortable and convenient to both the employee and the organization.
What is Separation?
Separation means cessation of service contract with the organization which will make a person apart.
A separation is a decision that the individual and the organization should part.– William B. Werther and Keith Davis(1996,264).
Employees may leave the organization voluntarily i.e. attrition like resignation or involuntarily i.e. lay off, discharge, dismissal, retirement with the fixed age limit of the service. Employees may take early retirement voluntarily too. Now, we go to learn about resignation.