Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate causes of high staff turnover among production workers at a large‐scale retail case meat processor. Design/methodology/approach – Three hypotheses were developed to investigate six independent variables as possible factors of high job...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate causes of high staff turnover among production workers at a large‐scale retail case meat processor. The paper aims to cover the field research that was subsequently conducted to determine if the relationship outlined in the hypotheses in...

Individual Behaviour, Learning Job Satisfaction Organizations The goal of improving individual learning in organizations is to meet the eeds of both the individual and the organization at the same time. Examines some of the practices currently being used to accomplish this goal. Discusses...

Purpose The existing gender gap in the workplace, that affects job satisfaction and career advancement of women, creates a need to understand further the causes and effects of the gender gap phenomenon. Although, there are many challenges that affect women’s job satisfaction and advancement in...

Purpose – To encourage employers to challenge their current views on graduate recruitment and look at innovative ways of securing a return on investment in recruitment and training. Design/methodology/approach – The paper critically reviews current models of graduate recruitment and...

Purpose – This paper aims to give readers some ideas about how to create a motivating work environment. A motivating environment will lead to increased productivity ad reduced turnover. Design/methodology/approach – Regina Clark speaks at association conferences and corporate meetings...

Purpose – At a time when the number and seriousness of disasters seems to be increasing, humanitarian organizations find that besides their challenging work they are faced with problems caused by a high level of turnover of staff. The paper aims to discuss these issues....

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of learning culture (LC) and learning agility (LA) on employee’s turnover intention (TI) in connection to information technology (IT) industries in India. Design/methodology/approach This research study analysed 258 samples of...

Argues for the importance of developing social capital in organisations. If training stays focused on the individual (human capital) level it may be missing out on important changes in developing organisational performance. The use of self managed learning (SML) is examined through reference to...

This short paper will introduce some tools and processes that can be used to develop a more strategic approach to organisational learning. They were developed over a two‐year action research project carried out by Business Lab ( www.businesslab.co.uk ) in Aberdeen, Scotland, involving dozens...