STAFF TURNOVER AT SELECTED GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS BY SINDIWSA VICTORIA MDINDELA Dissertation presented in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree: MAGISTER TECHNOLOGIAE: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT In the faculty of Business and Economic Sciences At the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University PROMOTER: DR A. Werner JANUARY 2009 DECLARATION “I‚ Sindiswa Victoria Mdindela‚ hereby declare that: • The work in this thesis is my own original work; • All sources used
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Nowadays‚ employee turnover is a concern for managers as it is costly and can affect the production schedules (Taplin & Winterton‚ 2007). According to Afzaal and Taha (2013)‚ the reason for people leaving the industry may be job dissatisfaction‚ minimal degree of job security‚ or other working conditions. The failure in success on employee job satisfaction may be caused by many personal factors‚ such as attitudes‚ education levels‚ social network‚ parental support‚ and so on. Thus‚ it is the time
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Reason for High Turnover Rate of Hospitality Industry in China Abstract The hospitality industry in China is gradually developing and being matured increasingly. It is the rapid increase in the number of hotels resulted in growing demand for qualified employees. However‚ China’s hotels are facing serious human resources challenge including shortage of qualified staff‚ high-staff turnover‚ and the unwillingness of university graduates to enter the industry. Specially‚ the high turnover rate of the
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Employee Turnover Michelle Carter Michael Brizek HTM 150 October 29‚ 2013 Employee Turnover This will describe the restaurant industry and its main employees. I will summarize three primary the primary reason that the turnover is high in this industry. I will also recommend a method that address the reasons that turnover is high. I will make a recommendation on how to improve job satisfaction in the industry. The restaurant industry can be described
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Turnover (employment) Turnover‚ in a human resources context refers to the characteristic of a given company or industry‚ relative to rate at which an employer gains and loses staff. If an employer is said to have a high turnover‚ it most often means that employees of that company have a shorter tenure than those of other companies in that same industry. Similarly‚ if the average tenure of employees in a particular sector is lower than that in other sectors‚ that sector can be said to have a relatively
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The Cost of Turnover Putting a Price on the Learning Curve by Timothy R. Hinkin and J.BruceTracey Employee turnover does more than reduce service quality and damage employee moraleit hits a hotels pocketbook. E mployee turnover has long been a concern of the hospitality industry‚ and therefore of researchers who examine industry human-resources concerns. One stream of research that arose in the past 20 years was an effort to quantify the cost of employee turnover. Although most managers
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EMPLOYEE TURNOVER: BAD ATTITUDE OR POOR MANAGEMENT? NARESH KHATRI Assistant Professor Nanyang Business School Nanyang Technological University Mail Box: S3-B2-C-82 Singapore 639798 Phone: (65) 790-5679 Fax: (65) 791-3697 E-mail: ankhatri@ntu.edu.sg PAWAN BUDHWAR Lecturer Cardiff Business School Cardiff University Aberconway Building Colum Drive Cardiff‚ CF1 3EU E-mail: budhwar@cardiff.ac.uk CHONG TZE FERN Nanyang Business School Nanyang Technological University Singapore 639798 E-mail: p7515495z@ntu
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1.0 Introduction The tourism industry in Malaysia has grown immensely due to its potential and unique competitive edge. The sector has increased its importance within the Malaysian economy‚ since the 1990’s according to Bashir‚ M. and Ahmad‚ N.‚ et al. (2008). It carries on to be a leading foreign exchange achiever‚ continually acting as a crucial contributor to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth‚ business and employment opportunity‚ investments‚ and empowering the balance of payments
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JOB DISSATISFACTION AND HIGH TURNOVER AT LIMA TIRE PLANT Executive Summary: Currently‚ the Lime Tire Plant is one of Treadway’s most efficient plants in terms of output due to utilizing new technology but is not performing to its potential due to high employee turnover at the foreman level. In 2007‚ turnover was 46% for the foreman position and overall morale and dissatisfaction was spreading throughout the company. The overall tire manufacturer industry is experiencing a drastic increase in
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report is to find out what couse high staff turnover in hospitality industry. And try to solute those problem. Methodology – The reason of high staff turnover rate divide by three major types‚ which are individual factors‚ enterprise factors and industry factors. After explain three types of factors‚ this report will show some method to solute each problem. Findings – Company should do something to remain their staff to decrease the damage from high staff turnover rate. Each problem can be fixed
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