Managing Learning and Turnover in Employee Staffing

Managing Learning and Turnover in Employee Staffing

We study the employee staffing problem in a service organization that uses employee service capacity to meet random, nonstationary service requirements. The employees experience learning and turnover on the job, and we develop a Markov Decision Process (MDP) model which explicitly represents the stochastic nature of these effects. Theoretical results show that the optimal hiring policy is of a ...

Organisational change and Employee Turnover

This paper investigates employee turnover, using data from a recent study of 352 NHS nurse leavers. We explore individual decisions to quit in a context characterised by change, and suggest a mechanism whereby organisational and contextual change can prompt individual leaving decisions. We develop and test hypotheses designed to shed light on the links between organisational change and individu...

Commitment profiles and employee turnover☆

Article history: Received 7 November 2012 Available online 4 February 2013 We examined how affective (AC), normative (NC), perceived sacrifice (PS), and few alternatives (FA) commitments combine to form profiles and determine turnover intention and turnover.We theorized that three mechanisms account for how profiles operate, i.e., the degree to which membership is internally regulated, the perc...

Employee Turnover and Employee Performance: A Comparative Study among Nurses

An organization’s success depends mainly on employee retention, which will help the organizations reduce employee’s job turnover and increasing organizational effectiveness [1]. Employee turnover which has attracted major attention in this current century, to some extent, is fundamentally needed for growth of any organization. Advancement and changes taking place very rapidly in life styles, cu...

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Employee Turnover and Retention: Conceptual Framework 2.2 Factors Affecting Employee Turnover 2.3 Factors Affecting Employee Retention 2.4 Employee Turnover and Retention in Non-Profit Organizations 2.5 Turnover and Retention in Non-Profit Sector: Indian Scenario