The new generation employees have gradually become the main part of the labor force. They have gradually become the main part of employees of enterprises because of their pursuit for freedom and distinctive personality. The new generation refers to people who were born between 1980 and 1999. It is also referred to as Generation Y or Millennials [
1]. While new generation employees refers to the young practitioners who were born after 1980 and have the ability to work, the new generation employees are young practitioners who were born after 1980 and have already had the ability to work. Compared with the old generation employees, the new generation employees generally have lower organizational loyalty and higher frequency of job hopping [
2]. Park and Shaw have pointed out that employees’ frequent turnover behaviors will lead to internal knowledge leakage and loss of the important customers [
3]. In other words, frequent turnover behaviors of new generation employees will bring some problems to business management. What we should address is the problem of how organizations attract and retain new generation employees and weaken their willingness to quitting [
4]. The organizational workplace plays a very important role in influencing new generation employees’ work attitude and behaviors. Enterprise managers can formulate strategies to address the concerns and needs of new generation employees [
5]. For this reason, we cannot help thinking about what management practices managers should adopt to manage effectively the turnover of the new generation employees. With the increase in talent demand and the change of organizational structure, more and more organizations need to integrate the inclusive concept into modern management. In management practice, “Inclusion” is an important part of Chinese culture. It is not only a high-quality culture, but also an important management concept. Inclusive organizational management practices are accepted more easily by employees and organizations.
Inclusion is the historical enlightenment of the Chinese civilization [
6]. It is also the symbol of a modern civilized society [
7], and an important concept of the UN Millennium Development Goals. Inclusive development is the trend of the world [
8]. In recent years, scholars pay more and more attention to the significance of the concept of inclusiveness to modern organization management, emphasizing that organizations need to carry out inclusive innovation and achieve inclusive growth [
9]. The idea of inclusiveness builds diverse workforce’s support to improve the working environment and standard [
10]. The diverse management form has developed into inclusive form [
11]. More and more scholars had proposed that organizational context factors such as inclusive organizational atmosphere and inclusive leadership can affect employee’s perception of tolerance, and further affect organizational citizenship behavior, employee turnover, etc. [
10,
12]. Hwang and Hopkins had pointed out that when the organization adopts a more inclusive management model, employees can have organizational commitment and improve job satisfaction, and decrease their turnover intention [
13]. The inclusive talent development model has become an emerging theme in the field of human resource management in recent years [
14]. In order to enable different individuals to participate more fully and provide opportunities for all members of the organization to realize their potential, researchers and practitioners increasingly use inclusion as a way to achieve these goals [
15]. Inclusion is an important environmental factor for retaining talents and making good use of them. Therefore, talent development must be “inclusive” [
16]. The inclusive talent development model incorporates organically the concept of tolerance into the enterprise’s human resource management practice. It is an organic fusion of traditional “inclusive culture” and modern “inclusive concept” into a series of talent development work such as attracting, employing, educating and motivating the talent [
17]. The difference from the traditional human resource management practice is that the inclusive talent development model is not limited to the traditional module of human resource management. It focuses more on the effective management and the employee’s cultivation by building an inclusive organizational atmosphere to achieve the sustainable development of employees and organizations. More importantly, the inclusive talent development model is a series of talent development work taken by the organization in order to build an inclusive working environment and provide high-quality working resources for its employees. It emphasizes five aspects, including the heterogeneity of inclusive talents, introducing talents in a diversified way; employing talents, emphasizing the advantages of employees; treating employees fairly, achieving a win–win situation between employees and the organization; emphasizing educating talents and their growing process; rational and inclusivity of employee’s views and failures, and encouraging talent innovation. The inclusive talent development model had been proved to have a significant impact on organizational innovation performance [
18], innovation passion [
19], employee craftsman spirit [
20] and employee work engagement [
21], etc. Besides, it has the remodeling effect on the work [
22]. Empirical research of the inclusive talent development model is still in its infancy currently. In the past studies, scholars have studied the antecedent variables of employees’ turnover intentions mainly in regard to job satisfaction, job embedding, organizational commitment and organizational support. Research about the impact of inclusive management practices, especially the inclusive talent development model on employee turnover, is relatively lacking [
8].
In view of the complexity of the mechanism of organizational inclusive management and employee behavior, it is necessary to study the impact of the inclusive talent development model on the turnover intention of employees in the Chinese context and uncover the “black box” of the inclusive talent development model’s effects. It is worth stressing that the data of the workplace survey on “work passion” from 51job (
www.51job.com) in 2017 showed that up to 97.5% of people in the workplace are more or less facing the loss of work passion, and only 2.5% of the respondents said that they always maintain work passion. Vallerand and Houlfort had pointed out that work passion is the strong tendency or willingness of members of an organization to work [
23]. That means individuals like, or even love, their work—therefore, investing time and energy—and regard the work as a self-identified core identity characteristic. In addition, dualistic work passion is a motivation structure that can be divided into harmonious passion and obsessive passion. Among them, harmonious passion is related to individual internalization. Individuals can voluntarily consider work as an important part of their identity, while obsessive passion is related to the internalization of individual’s controlled forms of internal or interpersonal pressure. Recent research has pointed out that work passion is the unique explanatory power of variables such as occupational happiness and burnout. This can help us to understand the phenomenon that other variables cannot be thoroughly interpreted in previous studies [
24]. Some scholars had suggested to stimulate individual work passion from the organizational management perspective [
25]. Based on this, we will pay attention to the question of whether the inclusive talent development model will have an impact on employee’s work passion and then affect their turnover intentions or not. In other words, we will analyze the mediation of work passion between the inclusive talent development model and the turnover intention of new generation employees, aiming to further improve and develop the theoretical framework of inclusive management research, as well as the human resource development model and employee behavior research. The hypotheses put forward in this study take work passion as the mediating variable between the inclusive talent development model and employee turnover intention, incorporating the “work passion” factor into the study, which enriches the existing variable research on the inclusive talent development model, and provides a theoretical basis for the inclusive human resource management practice of enterprises.