Software engineering is fundamentally driven by economics. One of the issues that software teams face is employee turnover which has a serious economic impact. The effect of job dissatisfaction on high turnover is consistently supported by evidence from multiple disciplines. The study investigates if and how job satisfaction relates to development processes that are being used and the determina...

We study vacancies, hires, and vacancy yields (success rate in generating hires) in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, a large representative sample of U.S. employers. We also develop a simple framework that identifies the monthly flow of new vacancies and the job-filling rate for vacant positions, the employer counterpart to the job-finding rate for unemployed workers. The job-filling...

In this study we examine the widely held view that intra-industry trade (IIT) entails relatively low adjustment costs. We construct a panel of industry level trade, production and employment data for Ireland. IIT is calculated using the conventional Grubel-Lloyd index as well as alternative measures of marginal IIT. Our measure of labour adjustment is defined as the share of intra-industry job ...

This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to reproduce the main cyclical propert...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The aged care industry experiences high rates of staff turnover. Staff turnover has significant implications for the quality of care provided to care recipients and the financial costs to care agencies. In this study, we applied a model of intention to quit to identify the contextual and personal factors that shape aged care staff's intention to quit. DESIGN AND METHODS A...

AIMS The study used Social Exchange Theory as a lens to examine associations between nurses' support antecedents (supervisor-nurse relationships and perceived organizational support) and their job attitudes (job satisfaction, organizational commitment and engagement). BACKGROUND Similar to many other westernized countries, there is a shortage of nurses working as nurses in Australia. The attr...

PURPOSE To investigate the reliability and validity of a single-item overall job satisfaction measure. METHODS Public agency employees (n = 745) were surveyed regarding job satisfaction, work, personality, and health variables. The single-item measure underwent the following analyses: correction for attenuation formula to estimate minimum reliability; correlations with multiple-item job satis...

Does turnover improve performance by allowing firms and employees to optimally match, as outlined by job matching theory? On the other hand, could turnover harm productivity by disrupting team dynamics, as outlined by the Firm Specific Human Capital Model (FSHCM)? I attempt to answer these questions through an analysis of Major League Baseball. For exploring the general relationship between tur...

Background: One of the key factors in the effectiveness of universities is faculty members. Paying attention to this important source brings the university closer to its goals. This study aimed to investigate job and organizational consequences of psychological empowerment with mediating role of organizational innovation, organizational justice, and organizational support among in the branches ...

PURPOSE This article reports on a randomized, controlled intervention study designed to reduce employee turnover by creating a retention specialist position in nursing homes. DESIGN AND METHODS We collected data three times over a 1-year period in 30 nursing homes, sampled in stratified random manner from facilities in New York State and Connecticut and randomly assigned to treatment and cont...