Referral Hire Presence Implications for Referrer Turnover and Job Performance

Missing Links: Referrer Behavior and Job Segregation

The importance of networks in labor markets is well-known, and their job segregating effects in organizations taken as granted. Conventional wisdom attributes this segregation to the homophilous nature of contact networks, and leaves little role for organizational influences. But employee referrals are necessarily initiated within a firm by employee referrers subject to organizational policies....

Occupational Stress and Turnover Intention: Implications for Nursing Management

Background The main purpose of this study was to explore the status of occupational stress among hospital nurses in Isfahan, Iran. It also aimed to examine the relationship between nurses’ occupational stress and their intention to leave the hospital.   Methods The study employed a cross-sectional research design. A validated questionnaire was used to collect data from 296 nurses. Respondents w...

occupational stress and turnover intention: implications for nursing management

background the main purpose of this study was to explore the status of occupational stress among hospital nurses in isfahan, iran. it also aimed to examine the relationship between nurses’ occupational stress and their intention to leave the hospital.   methods the study employed a cross-sectional research design. a validated questionnaire was used to collect data from 296 nurses. respondents w...

Referral and job performance: evidence from the Ghana colonial army

Referral and Job Performance: Evidence from the Ghana Colonial Army

As formalized by Montgomery (1991), referral by employees improves e¢ ciency if the unobserved quality of a new worker is higher than that of unrefereed workers. Using data compiled from army archives, we test whether the referral system in use in the British colonial army in Ghana served to improve the unobserved quality of new recruits. We …nd that it did not: referred recruits were more like...