Retraction notice: Linking conservation of resource perspective to personal growth initiative and intention to leave: role of mediating variables

The publisher of Personnel Review wishes to retract the article Srivastava, S. and Bajpai, L. (2021), “Linking conservation of resource perspective to personal growth initiative and intention to leave: role of mediating variables”, Personnel Review, Vol. 50 No. 2, pp. 686-708. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-10-2019-0548.It has come to our attention that this article contains substantial overlap with another article by one of the authors and simultaneously in review: Shalini Srivastava, Sonali Singh, Linking personal growth initiative and organizational identification to employee engagement: Testing the mediating-moderating effects in Indian hotel industry, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Volume 45, 2020, Pages 79-89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2020.07.005.As part of the investigation, the authors were requested to provide a copy of the dataset so that the editorial team could verify the findings. The authors fully co-operated with the investigation and stated that the same questionnaire was used for both articles. However, they were unable to provide the full dataset and admitted to mistakes when moving the data between articles. As a result, the findings of the article cannot be relied upon. The journal sincerely apologizes to its readers. The authors do not agree with the content of this notice.