Labour turnover and its effects on performance: an empirical test using firm data
In this article we test the hypothesis that the relationship between labour turnover and the economic performance of the firm is bell-shaped: a turnover level too low has a negative effect and likewise does a level too high. Our analysis is based on economic performance data of 110 offices of a temp agency. Since these offices vary highly in labour turnover but are similar in product and operational management, the data enabled us to control for a number of important intervening variables. From a regression analysis it could be shown that labour turnover indeed is related to office performance in a curvilinear way, indicating that it is especially excessive turnover that matters. This result proved robust for both performance level and change of performance as the dependent variables.
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2002
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Authors: | Glebbeek, Arie C. ; Bax, Erik H. |
Institutions: | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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