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Employee turnover is important to individuals; organizations and society. From an individual’s perspective, turnover can have both potentially positive and negative consequences not just on himself or herself, but also on his or her family members and those who remain with the organization,...

Employee turnover is an ongoing issue in organisations because it has long beenthought to detriment overall organisational efficiency and performance (Lee, Gerhart, Weller& Trevor, 2008; Takeuchi, Chen & Lepak, 2009; Trevor, 2001). Managers are only able toobserve and control some aspects or influencers...

The movement or flow of employees into, around and out of organisations(‘employee flow’) has long been a central issue in human resourcemanagement and industrial psychology. This is especially so for the specificelement of employee turnover, but also applies to staffing and internal...

The new world of work requires managers to be performance coaches. Traditionally, coaching was viewed as one of the lesser responsibilities of a manager. With more emphasis being placed on the leadership role of managers, there has been a shift in the role of managers from controller to...

A number of practitioner surveys across a range of industries have cited the lack ofsenior female role models as a barrier to career progression. There is very littleacademic literature to explain this at a senior organizational level. An initial review ofthe extant role model literature led to...