Managing Flexible Workforce - Strategic HRM Considerations Felipe Caamano Keller School of Management Introduction Staffing is the process of acquiring‚ deploying‚ and retaining a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization’s effectiveness and thus is a critical organizational function concerned with the acquisition‚ deployment‚ and retention of the organization’s workforce. The complexity of work and projects being done in organizations
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A Conceptual Model of Expatriate Turnover Author(s): Earl Naumann Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of International Business Studies‚ Vol. 23‚ No. 3 (3rd Qtr.‚ 1992)‚ pp. 499-531 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/155094 . Accessed: 09/10/2012 02:27 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service
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role of business ethics in keeping the staff motivated and to increase the productivity? Introduction: Keeping your staff motivated increases productivity‚ efficiency and retention. We all know the reasons to motivate‚ but few of us have actually mastered the science. We are simultaneously obsessed with motivating‚ but unlike the focused time and attention we dedicate to other good business practices (cost control‚ training‚ etc.)‚ our strategies for motivation seem to be given last
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Recently‚ I watched a news program where the headline story was‚ "What are the most important skills for employees today?" This is a thought-provoking question that is most simply answered by considering the two skills that can make a seemingly good employee on paper be a bad employee in reality. The first of the two skills is the ability to adapt to changing cultural diversity and to be able to get along with a wide variety of people. There was a time‚ not long ago‚ where work was a fairly homogeneous
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* SUBSCRIBE RSS FEED * ARTICLES * COMMENTS ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form KALYAN CITY LIFE Sharing Wisdom and Vivid Memories of Life Kalyan City Kalyan City is a fast emerging residential township in Thane district of Maharashtra‚ India. Kalyan City is a central suburban town and resides 54 kms away in the north-eastern direction of Mumbai city. Kalyan City Life blog regularly keeps tracking and blogging about our vivid memories and unique
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Nursing Shortage and Nursing Turn Over Nursing shortage and turnover is an enormous issue affecting nurses in the delivery of patients’ care. Nursing shortages have been shown to cause unfavorable effects which include decreased job satisfaction‚ decreased access to care‚ and can lead to increased turn over. This paper is about nursing shortages and nursing turn overs‚ and how the author would expect nursing leaders and managers to approach this issue. The writer’s rational would be supported by
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Preventing Voluntary Turnover Preventing voluntary turnover is important to the success of an organization. Staff turnover is expensive for companies‚ a cost no employer willingly wants to absorb. There are direct costs such as advertising‚ interviewing and training and indirect costs such as low morale and disruption of customer care or final product quality (Ziemba‚ 2004‚ 44). In a day when tight budgets‚ time limitations‚ and customer satisfaction are important to the bottom line‚ identifying
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Contents Introduction 3 Analysis 3 Employee Turnover 3 Employee Turnover Costs 4 Employee Retention 5 Employee Retention Strategies 5 Recommendations 6 Conclusion 6 References 7 Introduction The goal of this study is to understand employee turnover and its cost‚ employee retention and what are some Canadian company’s retention strategies to reduce high employee turnover rates. Analysis Employee Turnover Employee turnover is a ratio comparison of the number of employees
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I. OVERVIEW OF EMPLOYEE TURNOVER 1. Introduction Employee turnover is one of the recurring problems that all the human resource departments have to deal with. It seems at times that no matter what the efforts the human resource department puts in in retailing the employees‚ attrition never ceases. Hospitality industry is probably one among the industries where employee turnover is the highest (Paskin‚ 2008). The reasons for very high turnover among employees in the hospitality industry can
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Women in the Workforce Since the beginning‚ women have had to fight hard for the rights they have now got. Women fought for their change to vote‚ for fair equal workplace‚ equal pay‚ and abortion among just a few. Abortion used to be at the top of the list‚ but has now been replaced by fighting for money. Equal amounts for men and women (Tarr-Whelan‚ 1993). For what women believed they deserved an equal fair in they fought for. From the time this started to the present time‚ has much changed?
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