Employee turnover is expensive and disruptive to organizations. However not many employers appreciate the value lost in quality of human capital, and dollar value of lost productivity and time due to turnover. This study identified the causes and consequences of voluntary employee turnover in a financial institution in Kenya. The researcher established from the bank records that 80 employees resigned from the institution in the five-year period. The causes of turnover were identified and recorded as given in the separated employees' resignation letters held at the bank, and categorized as either avoidable or unavoidable. The quality of the separated employees was measured by academic qualifications, banking training, job performance ratings and years of work experience as recorded in the separated person's file. Turnover cost was computed based on the earnings of the separated employee and the associated administration costs, plus the cost of training and lost productivity due to the resignations. The turnover policies were reviewed. The data collected were coded and analyzed using the SPSS program version16. The quantitative data analysis was carried out using descriptive statistics. Non-parametric Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test was used to test the research hypotheses. A thematic analysis of the narration by the HR director was done. The reasons for the resignations were as follows: 65 percent better salaries offered elsewhere, 17.7 percent were due to family reasons, 13.8 percent went on further studies, 2.5 percent had problems with bank administration and 1.2 percent changed careers. It was further established that 71 percent of the separated workers had university degrees, 92 percent were either good or excellent job performers, 35 percent had more than ten years work experience and 80 percent had received bank training. The turnover cost per separated employee was 100 percent of the worker's annual salary. The total turnover cost comprised of 43.5 percent in lost productively due to the resignations; 30.9 percent on training and 25.6 percent on recruiting and hiring replacements. The researcher concluded that personnel turnovers had negative consequences for the bank in terms of loss of quality human capital and cost, and that management should act to resolve the problem since 67.5 percent of the turnovers were avoidable.

A Study on the Policy and Institution of Real Estate Trust in Taiwan Abstract Since the trust system was formally introduced to Taiwan where the Trust Act of January 26, 1996 was enacted and enforced, the relationship between individuals and property reconstructed by the property-oriented platform of trust has come to a new era in which the ownership of property, management, and the right to beneficiary play new roles. In light of such a new system that has a great influence on the national economy, most of which focused on its real estate trust policy, particularly on the policy of commercial trust, the purpose of the study is to examine Taiwan

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The advancement of scientific technology and fast economic growth has resulted in the improvement of better living life, especially the island country like Taiwan. It has the embracement of ocean resources and long coastal around island. Thus, people are looking for the quality of leisure life on the island such as sailing for sport, touring and leisure business. This type of leisure tourism is becoming the major trend in cope with the global boating industry. Taiwan started to manufacturing sailboat began in 1980 and has become one of the important sailboat manufacturing countries in the world. Nevertheless, the sailboat use for domestic sport or leisure has been ignored by the government and people due to the discouragement of restrict maritime law enforcement and marine safety upon the coastal water. The lack of clear regulation for embarking the sailboat and ports for the leasing sailboat is another detrimental problem associated with the domestic sailing activities. The lack of integrated law and institution policy has stalled the development of domestic sailing business and activities. The government has imposed the sailboat use under the regulation of touring boat and leisure fishing sport that has resulted in difficulties on providing the leasing place for domestic sailing activities. The present study was initiated to identify the improper regulation, acts and policy introduced by the government and to assess the proper domestic use of sailboat at the coastal fishing port. This is urgent needed especially at the faded and unused fishing ports due to the depletion of near shore fishery resources. The later is considered a major concern in order to finding a measure for retrieving the downward economy at many fishing villages. The research consist of the law, regulations and policy employed by Japan, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Canada, United States, New Zealand and Australia on their conduct regarding the management of sailboat activities and registration. The survey results provides the necessary reference with regard to enforcement law, strategy, policy, institution and integrated management for sailboat activities.

In this essay i present a study on political learning of a minority ethnicity whose political history in the institutional form began in 1993. The ethnicity in question is the Sami’s and in 1993 the Sami Parliament was established. The establishment of the Sami parliament radically changed the preconditions for political work. Sami politics came to be pursued in an organized manner in the form of a public authority and democratically elected units. In these study Sami politician's perceptions of political learning is investigated. Special attention is directed towards individual- as well as organizational and institutional level. The theories used are Vygotsky's sociocultural perspective on learning complemented with a Foucault-inspired discourse analysis. The method used is semi-structured interviews. The results show that learning is essentially perceived to take place on an individual level and that the organizational and institutional level only to some extent supports the individual level of learning

Syftet med denna studie var att få en ökad förståelse för hur och varför personalen på en institution som drivs av Statens institutionsstyrelse, bemöter ungdomar olika utifrån kön och vilka faktorer som spelar in i dessa skillnader. Vidare så ville jag även fördjupa mig i hur reflektion som verktyg kan användas till ett ökat lärande och utveckling hos personalen. Kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta anställda har genomförts samt ett observationstillfälle på vardera avdelningen. För att tolka resultaten har en hermeneutisk ansats använts. Resultatet visar på att personalen bemöter ungdomarna olika beroende på kön och vilken avdelning personalen arbetar på. Det finns gamla föreställningar och förhållningssätt som skapar skillnader i bemötandet av ungdomarna och också en medvetenhet kring dessa. Att använda reflektion som ett verktyg för lärande och utveckling är effektivt men kräver struktur, nyskapande och en tydlighet från ledningshåll. Lärandet och förändringen finns också att finna i interaktionen mellan personal och ungdomar.

Darbe nagrinėjama Vokietijos Federacinės Respublikos parlamento institucija, jos konstitucinė kompetencija bei pagrindinės ypatybės Vokietijos konstitucinės teisės raidoje. Naudojantis sisteminės analizės, lyginamuoju, loginiu analitiniu, lingvistiniu, istoriniu, sintezės bei apibendrinimo metodais nagrinėjama parlamento struktūra, jo funkcionavimas ir veiklos tendencijos. / The paper deals with the parliamentary institution of the Federal Republic of Germany, with its jurisdiction in the constitutional power framework, and the main features of the parliamentary institution in the context of development of the constitutional law. The analysis of the German Basic Law, the Rules of Procedure of the Bundestag and the Rules of Procedure of the Bundesrat, other laws, and views by researchers from Germany and other states are the tools used by the author to describe the roles of the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, which are conditioned by the division of power in the Federal Republic of Germany. The paper analyses peculiarities of German parliamentary governance in relation to the development of Bundestag and Bundesrat institutions. The paper also investigates the growing competence of the German Bundesrat in conciliation of interests of the German Federation and federal entities in shaping the will of the state.

Šitas darbas yra apie socialinių institucijų vadovų veiklos efektyvumą. Jo tikslas atskleisti vadovų veiklos efektyvumo prielaidas. / This work teels about social institutions’ leaders’ activity efficiency. Its aim is to reveal leaders’ activity efficiency preconditions.

Švietimas yra viena iš kultūros sričių, kurios pagrindas - žmogus, jo kultūra. Mokslo ir technikos vystymasis pažengė tiek toli, kad iš esmės keičiasi visuomeninis gyvenimas ir kaita tampa nuolatiniu reiškiniu arba vienu iš esminių postmodernistinės visuomenės bruožų. Pokyčiai tapo norma ir jie nuolat spartėja. Švietimo institucijų kaita yra tiesiog neišvengiama, nes „kiekviena įstaiga turi tapti mokymosi ir mokymo institucija” (Drucker, 1992). Vadinasi, neišvengiami pokyčiai visų pirma švietimo sistemoje ir tik po to konkrečioje švietimo institucijoje. Jeigu anksčiau vienokioje ar kitokioje organizacijoje svarbiausia buvo išlaikyti pusiausvyrą, tai dabar suvaldyti aplinką darosi vis sunkiau, todėl ir vadovams būtina mokėti sėkmingai vadovauti kaitai, gebėti produktyviai bendrauti ir bendradarbiauti. Sparčiai kintantis pasaulis skatina nuolat tobulinti struktūrą. Siekdama būti efektyvi, mokykla turi tapti besimokančia organizacija, skatinančia tobulėti kitus ir pati metai iš metų tobulėdama. Vienas iš mokyklos tobulinimo šaltinių yra projektinės veiklos, ypač tarptautinės, vystymas, kurio kontekste mokyklos vadovas yra svarbiausias asmuo remiantis arba stabdantis projektinę veiklą. Švietimo institucijos vadovo veikla įvairiais aspektais analizuota tiek užsienio šalių, tiek Lietuvos mokslininkų. Tačiau nepakankamai plačiai atliekami tyrimai, kuriuose būtų analizuojama švietimo institucijos vadovo veikla bei jos ypatumai projektinės veiklos (tarp jų ir tarptautinių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Education is one of the cultural aspects which is based on the individual and his/her culture. Scientific and technical development has gone so far as to change the life of society, and this change is becoming an inevitable phenomenon or a major feature of the post-modernist society. Changes have developed into a norm, and they are increasingly accelerating. Changes in educational institutions are simply inevitable, as ‘every institution must become the institution of learning and teaching’ (Drucker, 1992). Hence, such changes are primarily imminent in the system of education, and only then, in a particular educational institution. If earlier the emphasis was put on maintaining the balance between one or another kind of organization, at present, control of the environment is becoming increasingly complicated; therefore, administrators are required to successfully manage those changes, to efficiently communicate and cooperate. The fast-changing world impels a continuous improvement of the structure. In order to be effective, the school has to become a learning organization, which would promote improvement of others by constantly improving itself. One of the sources of school improvement is development of project activities, especially international ones, in the context of which the school manager becomes the most important person in promoting or hindering project activities. Activities of educational institution manager have been analysed in different aspects by both foreign... [to full text]

For the fishing village of Sambro, Nova Scotia, Canada, this project proposes affordable elderly housing, interactive and mixed use spaces where a self-supporting ethos is cultivated among independent and service living accommodations. It reveals the connectors within the project itself and the community at large that will build a healthy, healing, adaptable environment that will not only benefit its residents by actuating the paradigm of ageing as lifestyle, but will also contribute to the unification and physical manifestation of the community.