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Hospitality Culture and Climate: Keys to Retaining Hospitality Employees and Creating Competitive Advantage

Dawson, Mary E; Abbott, JeAnna - 2009

In order to gain competitive advantage, companies must determine the relationship between HR practices and firm performance. This conceptual paper proposes a model that highlights the importance of selecting people who “fit” within the organizational culture and climate of the firm. The...

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Comparing Five Empirical Biodata Scoring Methods for Personnel Selection

Ramsay, Mark J. - 2002

A biodata based personnel selection measure was created to improve the retention rate of Catalog Telemarketing Representatives at a major U.S. retail company. Five separate empirical biodata scoring methods were compared to examine their usefulness in predicting retention and reducing adverse...

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The extent and consequences of downward nominal wage rigidity

Devereux, Paul J.; Altonji, Joseph G. - 2000

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that true wage changes have many fewer nominal cuts and more nominal freezes than reported nominal wage changes. The data overwhelmingly rejects a model of flexible wage changes and provides some evidence against a model of perfect downward...

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Employee retention : utilization of employee's international experience

Cassel, Sterling - 2001

Cendant International Assignment Services is a relocation company that specializes in managing and coordinating international and domestic moves for organizations all over the world. While some organizations maintain high levels of employee retention, others encounter difficulties with attrition...

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Talent management in the role of employee retention

Tanton, S.N. - 2007

Retention of key productive employees is a major challenge for all organisationslocally and internationally because the resulting churn created by replacingemployees that voluntarily leave the organisation costs the business both directlyand indirectly. The purpose of this study is to determine...

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Firm-Explicit Human Capital: Understanding the Value of Transferable Firm Knowledge in the Labor Marketplace

Sturman, Michael C.; Walsh, Kate; Cheramie, Robin A. - 2007

An executive's firm-specific human capital is argued to be a critical resource to the executive's current organization, but because of its lack of transferability, is of little value outside the firm. We argue that there exists a form of firm-based knowledge, which we term firm-explicit human...

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To have and to hold: Modelling the drivers of employee turnover and skill retention in Australian organisations

Smith, Andrew; Oczkowski, Edward; Smith, Chris Selby - 2011

This paper examines the determinants of employee turnover and long-term skill retention in Australian organisations. Three new perspectives are examined: the difference between short-run turnover and long-term retention; the role of different high performance work systems philosophies and human...

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Unternehmensmitbestimmung unter Beschuss : die Mitbestimmungsdebatte im Licht der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung

Höpner, Martin - 2004

Das Papier nimmt aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive zur Debatte über die Zukunft der Aufsichtsratsmitbestimmung Stellung, indem es den Stand der empirischen Mitbestimmungsforschung zusammenfasst und weiterentwickelt. Es weist nach, dass Mitbestimmung auf Ebene der Leitungsorgane in den...

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Intelligenz als Determinante menschlicher Zuverlässigkeit und deren Implikation in die Entwicklung von Führungskräften

Jez, Uta - 2005

, Führungsqualität und Unternehmenserfolg unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Faktoren ’Intelligenz’ und ’Menschliche Zuverlässigkeit … verbesserten Führungsqualität und damit auch zu einem erhöhten Unternehmenserfolg geschlossen. Wegen der großen Komplexität der …

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Determinants of the Internationalization-Performance Relationship : An Empirical Examination of the Influence of Organizational and Contextual Variables

Sieler, Sebastian - 2008

Zusammenhang zwischen Internationalisierungsgrad und Unternehmenserfolg in bivariaten Modellen untersuchen und somit wesentliche … Unternehmenserfolg sowohl durch kontextbezogene Variablen, z.B. die Industriezugeh?rigkeit multinationaler Unternehmen (MNE) und deren … Unternehmenserfolg auswirkt. Der Nachweis, dass der Zusammenhang zwischen Internationalisierungsgrad und Unternehmenserfolg sowohl von …

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