Internal Mobility Rate

operationalbehavioral · performance · rate · organization

Share of roles filled by internal moves.

Why it matters

What you measure connects, through the construct(s) it operationalizes, to outcomes organizations care about. The strongest evidenced links below (effect size × evidence × consequence):

How it’s computed

Formula
internal moves / total moves
Measurement model
operational (a formula over systems data) — not a reflective survey scale; “reliability” here means data quality, not internal consistency
record grain →← summary (lossy)HRIS role_movesΔt 12mofilterinternal movesΣntotal role movesΣnInternalMobility Rate÷
Fig. How Internal Mobility Rate is built — data sources → actions → metric, read left to right. The grain boundary marks where record detail becomes a summary.

What it operationalizes

This metric measures the construct(s) below from operational data. Through them, it connects to the meta-analytic relationship network — the bridge from what you measure operationally to what the science knows.

What we know

Synthesized Bayesian priors over relationships involving this metric’s construct(s) — the meta-analytic evidence, with 95% confidence intervals and between-study heterogeneity (I²). Follow a row for the full distribution, contributing studies, and code.

Relationshipr (95% CI)kEvidence
Career Development (predicts)[0.21, 0.25]1meta-analytic
Career sponsorship (predicts)[0.09, 0.15]1meta-analytic
Career satisfaction (correlates)[0.20, 0.24]1meta-analytic
Voluntary Turnover (predicts)[-0.14, -0.08]1meta-analytic
Mentoring (predicts)[0.08, 0.12]1meta-analytic
Proactive Personality (predicts)[0.07, 0.25]1meta-analytic

Use it

Track Internal Mobility Rate and its drivers in the People Analytics Toolbox — the registry’s evidence wired into deployable measurement.

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Programmatic access: /api/v1/metrics/metric.internal_mobility_rate · /api/v1/evidence-statements?construct=construct.internal_mobility.