The term “employee turnover” is an important metric that is often central to organizations’ workforce planning and strategy. The reasons why employees leave their current positions; not just the fact that they leave have crucial implications for future retention rates among current staff, job satisfaction and employee engagement and an organization’s ability to attract talented people for job v...

Employee turnover is generally recognized as a costly phenomenon, and hotel companies consequently have initiated various turnover-reduction programs. Despite many studies, however, it remains difficult to assess exactly what effect turnover has on operating profits—and thus to assess the return on investment for initiatives designed to reduce turnover. An analysis of gross operating profits an...

This article examines the impact over a 30-year period of a 4-year organization development project in the Metro County Sheriff’s Department. Interventions included confrontation team-building sessions, management training, process consultation, survey feedback, third-party consultation, technological interventions, implementation of methods for increasing accountability, and changes in the org...

Over long time periods, urbanization is expected to have a negative effect on species diversity. Predicted effects generally follow one of three competing paradigms: diversity decay, homogenization, or communitycomposition turnover. However, it has been hypothesized that urban green spaces may provide a means by which urban areas can maintain or increase their species diversity over time. We us...

The study of macroevolution, here defined simply as evolution above the species level, has seen a growing appreciation of the role of physical factors in shaping large-scale evolutionary patterns. Many of the major biotic turnovers, extinctions, and radiations that had once been attributed to direct competitive replacements or adaptive breakthroughs are now seen as physically mediated. Asteroid...

The labor market practices of higher education and health care institutions, or other large local employers, may influence beliefs in local labor markets about the fairness of employer practices. If a few large employers in a local economy choose “high road” labor market practices, with higher wages, more internal promotion, and lower employee turnover, other local employers may emulate them.. ...

* Correspondence: songjiwen@rbs. ruc.edu.cn Department of Organization and Human Resources, School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China Department of Organization and Human Resources, School of Business, Renmin University of China, Room 909, Mingde Business Building, No. 59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100872, People’s Republic of China Full list of a...

Little firm information exists about the global terrorist network, and the type of data used by network analysts—testimony of participants—is not available. Relying on newspaper and other media reports, some general conjectures about the network features of the terrorist organization can be offered: It may well be characterized by a high degree of connectivity and considerable redundancy. The d...

RecBCD is a processive, DNA-based motor enzyme with both helicase and nuclease activities. We used high-resolution optical trapping to study individual RecBCD molecules moving against applied forces up to 8 pN. Fine-scale motion was smooth down to a detection limit of 2 nm, implying a unitary step size below six basepairs (bp). Episodes of constant-velocity motion over hundreds to thousands of ...

The connection between strategic change and managerial turnover is studied within a model where managers decide on a …rm’s strategy. Managers as well as …rm owners care for the long-term success of a company. But managers are also interested in their own reputation. Due to reputational concerns managers may be reluctant to alter strategic decisions they themselves made in the past even when int...