job turnover

(noun)

The number of employees who leave an organization of their own free will and need to be replaced.

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Examples of job turnover in the following topics:

  • How Job Satisfaction Influences Behavior

    • Job satisfaction can affect a person's level of commitment to the organization, absenteeism, and job turnover.
    • Job satisfaction can affect a person's level of commitment to the organization, absenteeism, and job turnover rate.
    • Job satisfaction also reduces stress, which can affect job performance, mental well-being, and physical health.
    • There are some indications that job satisfaction is directly tied to job performance; nonetheless, feeling less stressed can positively affect a person's behavior.
    • —for improvement and job enrichment.
  • Reducing Turnover

    • However rates vary widely when compared over different periods of time or different job sectors.
    • However rates vary widely when compared over different periods of time or different job sectors.
    • Research on employee job turnover has attempted to understand the causes of individual decisions to leave an organization.
    • Other variables related to turnover are the conditions in the external job market, the availability of other job opportunities, and the length of employee tenure.
    • In addition, by paying above-market wages, the worker's motivation to leave the job and look for a job elsewhere will be reduced.
  • Review Techniques

    • However rates vary widely when compared over different periods of time or different job sectors.
    • Preventing the turnover of employees is important in any business.
    • Research on employee job turnover has attempted to understand the causes of individual decisions to leave an organization.
    • Other variables related to turnover are the conditions in the external job market, the availability of other job opportunities, and the length of employee tenure.
    • In addition, by paying above-market wages, the worker's motivation to leave the job and look for a job elsewhere will be reduced.
  • Job Design

    • Using this technique, among others, the company is able to reduce turnover.
    • Job Rotation: Job rotation involves moving employees from job to job at regular intervals.
    • Using this technique the company is able to reduce turnover.
    • These three psychological states in turn are related to positive outcomes such as overall job satisfaction, internal motivation, higher performance, and lower absenteeism and turnover.
    • Explain the four tactics of job design and the five core job dimensions
  • Selecting the right People

    • The purpose of behavioral interviewing is to find links between the job's requirement and how the applicant's experience and past behaviors match those requirements.
    • Employers must obtain written consent from the applicant before conducting a background check, and the information gathered in a background check should be relevant to the job.
    • Employers may choose to use just one or a combination of the screening methods to predict future job performance.
    • If companies are not successful in their hiring practices, high turnover, low employee morale, and decreased productivity will result.
    • Research shows that the "degree of cultural fit and value congruence between job applicants and their organizations significantly predicts both subsequent turnover and job performance" (Pfeffer & Viega, Putting People First for Organizational Success, 1998).
  • Employee Responsibility

    • Job enrichment is generally viewed positively; however, some employees prefer not to have a high level of job enrichment.
    • Job enrichment is a job redesign technique that allows workers more control over how they perform their own tasks.
    • As an alternative to job specialization, companies using job enrichment may experience positive outcomes, such as reduced turnover, increased productivity, and reduced absences.
    • At the same time, there is evidence that job enrichment may sometimes cause dissatisfaction among certain employees.
    • Job enrichment is not suitable for everyone.
  • Efficiency Wage Theory

    • However, firms may choose to pay wages higher than the market-clearing equilibrium in order to incentivize increased worker productivity or to reduce turnover.
    • The manager thus may pay an efficiency wage in order to increase the cost of job loss, which gives a sting to the threat of firing.
    • Minimizing turnover: As mentioned above, by paying above-market wages, the worker's motivation to leave the job and look for a job elsewhere will be reduced.
    • Selection: If job performance depends on workers' ability and workers differ from each other in those terms, firms with higher wages will attract more able job-seekers, and this may make it profitable to offer wages that exceed the market clearing level.
  • Using the Receivables Turnover Ratio

    • The receivables turnover ratio measures how efficiently a firm uses its assets.
    • The receivables turnover ratio, also called the debtor's turnover ratio, is an accounting measure used to measure how effective a company is in extending credit as well as collecting debts.
    • The receivables turnover ratio is an activity ratio, measuring how efficiently a firm uses its assets.
    • Sometimes the receivables turnover ratio is expressed as the "days' sales in receivables":
  • Return on Common Equity

    • A company with a high ROE does a good job of turning the capital invested in it into profit, and a company with a low ROE does a bad job.
    • ROE is the product of the net margin (profit margin), asset turnover, and financial leverage.
    • Also note that the product of net margin and asset turnover is return on assets, so ROE is ROA times financial leverage.
    • Similarly, if the asset turnover increases, the firm generates more sales for every unit of assets owned, again resulting in a higher overall ROE.
  • Inventory Turnover Ratio

    • Inventory turnover is the measure of the number of times inventory is sold or used in a time period such as a year.
    • The equation forinventory turnover is the cost of goods sold (COGS) divided by the average inventory.
    • Inventory turnover is also known as inventory turns, stockturn, stock turns, turns, and stock turnover.
    • A low turnover rate may point to overstocking, obsolescence, or deficiencies in the product line or marketing effort.
    • In assessing inventory turnover, analysts also consider the type of industry.
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