...Causes of Employee Turnover ABSTRACTThe proposed research will be conducted to investigate the causes of employee turnover. Proposed study will use different research articles to develop a model which shows that job satisfaction, employee motivation and employee involvement (independent variable) has an impact on employee turnover (dependent variable). Hence the purpose of this research will be, firstly getting the perception of employees at work by conducting semi structure interviews as an instrument of data collection to explore the effect of Job satisfaction, employee motivation and employee involvement on employee turnover. Secondly semi structure interviews will be further used to find and examine whether these three factors really affect or not if yes then which factor affects closely in order to remove that one from organizations facing employee turnover issues. Different hypothesis are formed on the basis of dependent and independent variables. By using different research articles literature review has been written. Than a model is developed of job satisfaction, employee motivation and employee involvement (independent variable) and employee turnover (dependent variable).Than a theoretical framework is written on the base of these variables. Using a cross sectional research method sample of 500 employees of service organization like Banks, University (Employees), Telecommunication, EFU life insurance, Guard Technologies and Students has been selected for this research...
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...RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON CAUSES OF EMPLOYEE TURNOVER ABSTRACT This proposal is aimed at conducting a study to investigate the causes of employee turnover. Proposed study will use different research articles to develop a model which shows that employee satisfaction, employee motivation and employee involvement has an impact on employee turnover. Introduction to Proposed Research Title CAUSES OF EMPLOYEE TURNOVER: Background of Study Employee turnover is the number of permanent employees leaving the company within the reported period versus the number of actual active permanent employees on the last day of the previous reported period. Five reasons due to which employees leave organizations: 1. The most common reason why employees leave a certain organization is that they see better opportunity elsewhere. Man has a growing desire to own more things and better pay can give them this. Apart from that, they are compelled to look for better pay because of financial needs. 2. Another reason could be that the employees are not happy with the organization. There are cases when employees leave the company even if they offer competitive salaries. This is because of the organization itself. The employee does not approve of the management style and they are unhappy with the culture of the organization. These factors can cause employees to say goodbye to the organization. 3. There are also cases when...
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...RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON CAUSES OF EMPLOYEE TURNOVER ABSTRACT This proposal is aimed at conducting a study to investigate the causes of employee turnover. Proposed study will use different research articles to develop a model which shows that employee satisfaction, employee motivation and employee involvement has an impact on employee turnover. Introduction to Proposed Research Title CAUSES OF EMPLOYEE TURNOVER: Background of Study Employee turnover is the number of permanent employees leaving the company within the reported period versus the number of actual active permanent employees on the last day of the previous reported period. Five reasons due to which employees leave organizations: 1. The most common reason why employees leave a certain organization is that they see better opportunity elsewhere. Man has a growing desire to own more things and better pay can give them this. Apart from that, they are compelled to look for better pay because of financial needs. 2. Another reason could be that the employees are not happy with the organization. There are cases when employees leave the company even if they offer competitive salaries. This is because of the organization itself. The employee does not approve of the management style and they are unhappy with the culture of the organization. These factors can cause employees to say goodbye to the organization. 3. There are also cases when...
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...ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF COMMERCE [pic] Organizational Behavior and Management Instructor: Dr. Aly A. Messallam Term Paper Impact of Motivation On Employee’s Performance & Turnover Prepared By: Amr A. Lotfy Table of content 1- Abstract ……………………………………………….3 2- Introduction………………………………………….4 3- Literature review………………………………….4 4- Motivation theories…………………………...…5 5- Turnover…………………………………..………….11 6- Performance Improvement and Appraisal for Employees……………..15 7- Existing situation………………………………..17 8- Conclusion and suggestions………………..18 9- References…………………………………………..19 1- Abstract In any organization employee motivation is the key factor for organizational performance. Since motivation influences productivity, managers need to understand what motivates employees to reach peak performance. It is not an easy task to increase employee motivation because employees respond in different ways to their jobs and their organization's practices. Managers pay a heavy price when employees have motivation problems. When high-performing employees have unresolved motivation issues, their performance either declines or they leave for another job. When poor-performing employees are not motivated to improve, they drag down results, reduce productivity among their team members and, worse, seldom leave because they have no place to go. Alexandria Mineral Oils Company (AMOC) is an industrial company working in the field of petroleum...
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...2 Excessive Turnover 2 General Turnover 2 Critical Employee Turnover 3 Turnover in Low to Moderate Level 3 Motivation 3 Innovation 3 Relationship between Employee Turnover and Performance 4 Employee Retention 4 Significance 4 Job Satisfaction 5 Embeddedness 5 Others 6 Conclusion 6 Reference 6 Introduction Following the process of globalization which is increasingly developing, consequent fierce competition brings about frequent phenomenon of turnover in organizations (Liu et al., 2011). According to the statistic data that showed by Meier and Hicklin (2007), the turnover rate of U.S. federal government was 16.1% from 2003 to 2004, that of Dutch temporary employment agencies was 14.2% in 2005 and that of trucking even reached 41% in 2005. Currently, employee turnover is still lacking of attention in many aspects, such that most previous researches were focused on the reasons of turnover, but paid less attention to the effect of turnover (Ton & Huckman, 2008). The emphasis in this essay is that high employee turnover damages organization performance for increasing cost and causing critical employee leaving, while moderate level of turnover benefits organization performance for improving innovation and motivation, employers should focus on enhancing employee’s job satisfaction and embeddedness for retaining their employees. This essay has four parts. In the first and second part of the essay, both effect of excessive turnover and moderate turnover would be discussed...
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...Title | Findings | Sabbaticals and Employee Motivation: Benefits, Concerns and Implication | There are some suggestions about the business researchers and practitioners should be study the literature on “360-degree feedback”and evaluation research or may can develop somecomprehensive survey instruments and objective measures regarding the use of sabbaticals. Besides that, there are also needs to establish reliability, validity, and measurement invariance. Finding shows that may have to develop a comprehensive theoretical model which involved question of what, how, why, who, where, and when and also test the model empiricallyin the literature. | An examination of a Factor Structure and Scale Reliability of the Work Motivation Scale, the Motivation Sources Inventory | Some weaknesses of the MSI are lack of research and development on the meta-theory of Leonard et al.’s (1999). To promote further research in this area, may can be re-examination and possible refinement of the MSI or development of an alternative instrument.. | Motivation Levels of Mis Managers Versus Those of their employees | The degree of MIS personnel are found that different from their management peers in other parts of the company. MIS managers may can consider some action to reduces the negative effects among differences. MIS management had existed a very healthy motivational environment. Try to pay some attention with a reasonable expectation of rapid resolutions on the problems. | HDM Modeling as a...
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...Teamwork & Motivation BUS 520 Date: August 5, 2014 Imagine that you are the owner of a small manufacturing company. Your company manufactures a commodity, widgets. Your widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. Your company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, there are many defects, which increase your costs and delays delivery. Your company has fifty (50) employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. The motivation of the team lays heavily on the leadership of the company. Managers must learn how to motivate the team in an effective manner to reach a common goal. In this case, making sure that the widgets are being produced with little to no defects, and being sent out in a timely manner while keeping costs down. The objective is to design an organization motivation plan that will encourage the team to work and achieve this goal. Highly motivated individuals can make a huge difference to the overall attitude of a team and the production. The first step in developing a motivated team is being able to understand what a team really is. According to Organizational Behavior, “A team is a group of people holding themselves collectively accountable for using complementary skills to achieve a common purpose.” (Schermerhorn, Jr., Osborn, Uhl-Bien, & Hunt, 2012) Team work...
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...Teamwork and Motivation Teamwork and Motivation Teamwork and motivation comes directly from the leadership of any company. Management must master the concept of motivating the team. Making sure that mu company’s widgets are being produced with little to no defects and being sent out in the timely manner all while keeping down cost. The objective is to design an organization motivation plan, to propose two methods to motivate all employees in the organization, to propose three ways to motivate the minimum wage service worker, to analyze the relevance of an individual worker in today’s organization context and to re-create the individual teamwork chart. Organization Motivation Plan To keep my employees motivated, job satisfaction is a really big factor. “Job satisfaction is an individual's emotional response to his or her current job condition, while motivation is the driving force to pursue and satisfy one's needs. Managers can help employees achieve overall job satisfaction, which, with the employee's internal motivation drive, increase performance on the job.” (Alshallah, 2004). Motivation opportunities such as intrinsic and extrinsic rewards can get employees motivation. Rewarding them both intrinsically and extrinsically can be a sure way to motivate my employees and overall job satisfaction. High employee turnover rate can be detrimental on motivation. An important factor for leadership to determine how high turnover is affecting the workplace and understanding...
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...Teamwork and Motivation By James B. Danquah BUS 520: Organizational Behavior and Leadership Dr. Damita Goods Strayer University May 24, 2013 Abstract Hyper competition among businesses continues to increase the importance and relevance of employee motivation. This is essentially because employee motivation grants tangible benefits to the employee as an individual and consequently to organizational growth. One of the challenges facing management in the face of global competition is the designing of appropriate motivation plan that can ensure employee satisfaction and growth of the business. This paper therefore attempts to design an appropriate motivation plan for Danquah and Sons, a small manufacturing company based in Baltimore, Maryland that produces WooWoo, a widget. The motivation plan will encourage high employee job satisfaction, reduce turnover rate, increase productivity and improve quality of work. The paper proposes two methods for all employees at Danquah & Sons and looks at ways to motivate the ordinary factory low rate worker, his relevance and the need for teamwork. Theories of Motivation and Motivation Plans (Schermerhorn et. al 2012) defines motivation as “forces within an individual that accounts for the direction, level, and persistence of a person’s efforts expended at work” (p. 102). Social Scientists have developed many motivation theories, notable among which are Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory that views human needs as...
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...leadership as well as team members working with the division must employ new strategies that not only increase their efficiency, but also encourage them to work together as a team. This paper analyses some of the problems facing the Division of Environmental Assessments, as well as some solutions aimed at improving employee experience. Problems There are underlying problems in the case. The problems must be solved if the division is to play a more complete role in assessment of environmental plans of oil and gas developments. One of the clearest problems is poor employee retention. In the history of the division, it is obvious that employee turnover has not been a serious issue. However, there is now an increase in the turnover rate, and the ability of filling vacant positions is becoming increasingly difficult. From the case, it is evident that within the first month of Jane’s leadership as the Manager of Environmental Assessments, the division has lost one top engineer and one junior engineer. The main reason why employees are leaving the division is that they are receiving more attractive salary packages from other companies, especially in the private sector. Poor employee retention clearly has a direct relationship with the inability of the division to attract new workers. Based on the situation on the ground, this is not only because of a lack of engineers with the appropriate background, but also because of lack of engineers that are willing to commit themselves to...
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...Analysing Staff Turnover, its Cost and Effects on the Business and Developing Strategies to Improve Staff Retention: Student Name: Fabio De Souza Lima Student Number: 0053455T Lecturer: Nathalie Hudson Sunday, 28 July 2013, 11:55pm In comparison with other types of industry, excess of labour turnover has become a chronic problem for Tourism related enterprises, especially in the Hospitality sector. It has the potential to cause (directly or indirectly) serious issues and generate a multitude of costs to a business. For example, the whole process of recruitment and training can be very expensive and, even costlier can be the potential decline in the levels of service quality and productivity, which can culminate in customer dissatisfaction and consequential weakening of the business. This paper seeks to analyse such scenario by investigating staff turnover cases occurred throughout a variety of corporations in the hospitality industry. It discusses how such situation will affect businesses and, at the same time, suggests how Human Resource Departments should approach the issue, in order to help companies retain its most valuable asset, the employees. The difference between staff turnover rates amongst managerial positions and other more peripheral positions became evident after research and so did the notion that staff turnover rates will vary depending on the size of corporations. But, above all, the most influential factor that appear to be affecting staff turnover levels is...
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...Low Morale Low motivation among employees can spread like wildfire in a company. Enthusiasm can spread from worker to worker in the same way as low motivation. Managers and supervisors who are consistently enthusiastic can motivate workers as well. Low morale can result in a hostile work environment with constant complaining. In a business that is customer service-driven, a work environment with low morale could result in lower sales and a poor customer experience. Low Productivity Poor motivation can result in low productivity from employees. When a worker has the skills and resources to succeed on the job but is not performing at his best, one cause could be low motivation. Motivated employees have a desire to get the job done to the best of their abilities. An unmotivated employee lacks the drive and commitment to work at his highest capabilities. The manager or supervisor must investigate the cause of a worker's failure to perform. High Turnover Companies experiencing low morale and motivation among employees sometimes experience a higher turnover rate. In an environment of low motivation and morale, employees sometimes seek a better position in an organization that values their services and work. A high employee turnover rate results in increased costs to the company. Companies must pay to recruit, hire and train new workers frequently in a department or organization with low morale and motivation. Programs and incentives to improve motivation can increase job satisfaction...
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...LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY TERMPAPER HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGMENT EMPLOYEE RENTENTION NAME: SOURABH SHARMA REGD: 10903798 ROLL NO: RR1908B31 SUBMMITED TO:MR.RAJEEV GUPTA INTRODUCTION Employee retention refers to the efforts by which employers attempt to retain employees in their workforce. In a business setting, the goal of employers is to decrease employee turnover, training costs, and loss of talent. By implementing lessons learned from key organizational behavior concepts employers can improve retention rates and decrease the associated costs of high turnover. How To Increase Employee Retention | | | Companies have now realized the importance of retaining their quality workforce. Retaining quality performers contributes to productivity of the organization and increases morale among employees. Four basic factors that play an important role in increasing employee retention include salary and remuneration, providing recognition, benefits and opportunities for individual growth. But are they really positively contributing to the retention rates of a company? Basic salary, these days, hardly reduces turnover. Today, employees look beyond the money factor. | employee retention can be increase by inculcating the following practices: 1. Open Communication: A culture of open communication enforces loyalty among employees. Open communication tends to keep employees...
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...is brought out to them. The customer will have the opportunity to have a dine in experience with a product that is freshly prepared, but will not be too time consuming. The goal and mission statement of the restaurant is “At Saigon Jon’s, we are all about fresh and high quality. We believe in using better ingredients which are good for you and good for our community.” The restaurant focuses on bringing quality customer service with exceptional types of products that range from Vietnamese subs to different types of Pho (noodle soup) and Vermicelli (noodle bowl). Saigon Jon’s is owned and operated by Johnny Kien with staff of about 10 employees. Format The main weaknesses of Saigon Jon’s are the problems of high turnover of employees and the lack of motivation and morale shown through high absenteeism. The solutions to these problems are motivational drives, through job enrichment, through the learned needs theory, and through proper communication. Business Structure The structure of Saigon Jon’s is one that is in no way complex and it’s straightforward. This type of business has a simple structure which means that is has organizational design characterized by a low degree of departmentalization, wide spans of control, authority centralized in a single person and little formalization. The owner runs the majority of the business such as the marketing, accounting, finance and inventory. The employees that work under the owners help prepare the...
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...------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------- 1.1 Effectiveness of Motivational Strategy in BRAC Bank In this modernized world where globalization is fast crating an effect, the workplace realities of the ancient organizations no longer exists. It has become past and needs to be revised very carefully before any aspect of it can be implemented nowadays. It has become increasingly important for the organizations to introduce new methods and meet the new motivational needs of the employees. The reality of workplace, the changing work environment has increased the end for the managers to reconsider the methodologies of developing durable and strong relationship between the employees and organization that ultimately leads to the achievement of the organization’s goals and objectives. A thorough and complete understanding of the employees motivational need has became important for the management in order to accomplish what employees expect from the organization in order to return what organization expect from them. Therefore it becomes clear from the researches that a motivated work-force is an instrument of success for full filling the needs of a rapidly changing work environment for both, the employees and the organization. It also becomes clear that a well- motivated workforce will eventually lead to the organization achieving its goals and objectives in a better an efficient manner. To serve this...
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