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Relationships between recruitment referral sources and performance, work skills, inter-personal skills, attendance, retention, gender, ethnicity, age, etc. -- Formal recruiting (radio, tv, newspaper, employment/placement office) -- Informal recruiting (employee referrals, walk-ins, etc.).

The research involved a small sample from one part of the United States, Southern California, and also one profession, publishing. The results may not be generalized to employees in different industries.

Sammanfattning Med utgångspunkt i de ökande demografiska utmaningarna, i kombination med att allt färre väljer att utbilda sig till undersköterskor, har vi valt att undersöka enhetschefer upplevda möjligheter att leda i hemvården utifrån syfte att minska personalomsättning. Vi valde att i en kvalitativ studie intervjua 8 enhetschefer i kommunal hemvård. Studien har utförts i 4 olika skånska kommuner. Empirin har analyserats med hjälp av tidigare forskning, en organisationsteori och tre ledarskapsteorier. Vårt resultat visar på att vår empiri stämmer överens med tidigare forskning och bekräftar att en ledare i hemvården har en väldigt komplex uppgift, som försvåras av krav, riktlinjer och förväntningar från flera olika håll. Enhetscheferna måste förfoga över en rad olika egenskaper för att påverka medarbetarna genom beteende och processer som inspirerar till autonomi samt ökar medarbetarnas tro på sin egen förmåga. Enhetscheferna måste även se till medarbetarnas intresse, genom att ta tillvara på deras kompetens och fortsätta kompetensutveckla medarbetarna samtidigt som de organisatoriska förutsättningarna är begränsande på en rad olika sätt. Begränsningarna till trots, är enhetscheferna optimistiska till sina möjligheter att leda i hemvården och upplevs inte modfällda över de framtida utmaningar de står inför. / Abstract On the basis of the increasing demographic challenges, combined with the fact that fewer and fewer people choose to study to become assistant nurses, we have chosen to investigate managers' perceived opportunities to lead in home care on the basis of reducing staff turnover. In a qualitative study, we chose to interview 8 managers in municipal home care. The study has been conducted in 4 different municipalities in Skåne. The empirical work has been analyzed using previous research, one organizational theory and three leadership theories. Our results show that our empirical data are consistent with previous research and confirm that a leader in home care has a very complex task, which is made more difficult by demands, guidelines and expectations from several different directions. Managers must command a variety of characteristics to influence employees through behaviors and processes that inspire autonomy and increase employees' belief in their own ability. The managers must also look after the employees' interest, by taking advantage of their competence and continuing to develop the skills of the employees, while at the same time limiting the organizational conditions in a variety of ways. Despite the limitations, the managers are optimistic about their ability to lead home care and are not discouraged by the future challenges they face.

Research questions: In particular, how does employee turnover relate to the level of engagement and investment during the EVP touchpoints: preboarding, onboarding, offboarding? Purpose & Aim: The purpose is to explore the relationship between the level of employee turnover and the level of engagement in the EVP: preboarding, onboarding, and offboarding.  Method: A qualitative approach was chosen for the thesis, which was conducted through seven semi-structured interviews. The informants were different managers with personal responsibility for both white and blue-collar workers from a multinational company, operating mostly B2B in a matrix-like organization. Conclusion: The engagement & investment in the three different EVP touchpoints was shown to be affected by the turnover in different ways, thus affecting the organizational socialization. With a generally low turnover for many years, a sudden drop due to retirements and resignations, from very loyal employees in most departments,  a sudden lack of employees developed. This was followed by a strain on the resources that already were not considered superfluous, creating a negative spiral. A considerable difference was found in the engagement between the preboarding, onboarding, and offboarding. The entry points were increasingly more of a priority than the exit points, with a growing imminent need for employees. However, this also halted the efficiency of a “proper” onboarding in the most afflicted departments, as the knowledge transfer and socialization was not able to properly be induced into every employee. With a not fully integrated approach across the organization, the core values were not integrated nor consistent either. Conclusively, there needs to be a consistent proactive effort to manage these EVP touchpoints in order to create prerequisites for a sustainable EB, especially in today’s labour market.

Då människors syn på arbete kommit att förändras i takt med ”det nya arbetet” har det kommit att bli en mer utmanande process för organisationer att på den traditionella aspekten Behålla personal. Att arbetstagare byter jobb allt oftare är positivt för samhällets utveckling, då det kan skapa värdefulla effekter i form av kunskapsspridning och konkurrenskraft. Trots detta tycks många organisationer ha svårt att se det positiva i att deras personalomsättning ökar och mycket resurser läggs på att Behålla arbetstagare. Detta stämmer väl överens med den organisation som kommit att identifieras, vilken både arbetar för att Behålla sin personal, samt innehar hög personalomsättning. Därav syftar denna studie till att förklara i vilken utsträckning en organisation behöver förhålla sig till den traditionella aspekten Behålla, utifrån ett arbetsgivarperspektiv i en kontext av “det nya arbetet”. Studien grundar sig i en kvalitativ studie, där vi med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer har samlat in vårt material. Studien har identifierat och utgått från tre centrala områden inom aspekten Behålla, vilka är människan i organisationen, lärande och utveckling, samt prestationer och belöningar. Dessa tre centrala områden har hjälpt oss att skapa förståelse för aspekten Behålla, då den utformat den teoretiska referensramen samt bidragit till studiens datainsamling. Studien visar att “det nya arbetet” handlar om att människan idag värderar sin egen framgång och lycka högre än vad människan gjort tidigare. Vi har i studien kommit fram till att den identifierade organisationen arbetar med den traditionella aspekten Behålla. Däremot sker detta arbete på gruppnivå och behöver i större utsträckning individanpassas, när det kommer till att Behålla personal. / As people's view on work have come to change as the "new work" changes, it has become a more challenging process for organizations to retain their staff in the traditional way. The fact that employees change jobs more and more often is positive for the development of the society, as it can create valuable effects in the form of knowledge dissemination and competitiveness. Despite this, many organizations seem to have a hard time seeing the positive in their increasing turnover while a lot of resources is being spent on retaining employees. This is in an agreement with the organization that has been identified, which both works to retain its staff and has a high turnover. Hence, this study aims to explain the extent to which an organization needs to relate to the traditional way of retaining, from an employer perspective in the context of "new work". The study is based on a qualitative study in which the researchers have collected their material by means of semi-structured interviews. The study has identified and started from three key areas of theory retention, which are the person in the organization, learning and development, as well as achievements and rewards. These three central areas have helped us to gain an understanding of the theory as well as they form a large part of the study, as it designed the theoretical frame of reference and contributed to the study's data collection. The study shows that "new work" is about the fact that people today values their own success and happiness more than they did before. We have found in the study that the identified organization works with the traditional way of retaining. However, this work takes place at a group level and needs to be more individually adapted when it comes to retain.

The CEO of a large listed firm is often under public scrutiny due to listing requirements of stock exchanges of the respective country as well as pressures from stakeholders. Of these stakeholders, shareholders are mostly interested in the firm performance as it relates to their investment to determine if their investment is still worthwhile as well as to determine its returns. A CEO has the duty of ensuring that a firm meets its set targets and the responsibility of having to account for any deviations from these targets. In a firm with sound corporate governance measures, any underperformance experienced by the firm should result in the CEO being replaced and when targets met, the CEO being rewarded. However this is not always the case and this study considers the key determinants of CEO turnover as it later aims to determine what these key determinants are in South African JSE-listed firms as well as the correlation with CEO turnover. This study examines the relationship between ownership structure and board characteristics on CEO-firm performance sensitivity. The population for this study was 60 companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The period covered for this study runs over 5 years from 2013 to 2017. This period was chosen mainly because data for some companies was missing for the period beyond 2017. Thus, excluding companies that had no data for the period beyond 2017 could have reduced the sample further and would have made the analysis less meaningful. The study reports three important findings. The first is that CEO turnover is insensitive to firm performance, irrespective of whether it is an accounting-based firm performance (i.e CEO turnover vs EBIT/Assets ratio) or market-based measure of firm performance (lagged stock returns, 18, 24, and 36 months respectively). Second, the findings of this study show that CEO age and institutional ownership are inversely related to CEO turnover. In addition, board size becomes a significant determinant of CEO turnover when the model in includes returns lagged over 36 months or when the EBIT/Assets ratio is part of the Model (see models 7 and 8), although this is only at 10% level of significance. Third, board insiders and firm size are found to be unrelated to CEO turnover.

This master’s thesis is elaborated in cooperation with the selected company and is devoted to the following topic: application of management control system in retail department in selected company. The first part of the master’s thesis deals with the theoretical basics to the topic. The second part is devoted to the characteristic and strategy of the selected company. Further there is the analysis of the current state of company’s stores and served retail network. The third part of the master’s thesis focuses on proposals of key indicators of controlling measurement of company’s stores and in the retail network. The end of the master’s thesis deals with proposals of solutions for the future development of the retail department in selected company.

The diploma thesis is focused on the employee turnover in the chosen company. The study is divided into four parts. The first part establishes the goals. The second – theoretical – part lays out strategies for reducing employee turnover. In the third part, the company is first described and then selected methods are applied. The last part suggests solutions for reducing the employee turnover in the company.

This diploma thesis is focused on the identification of needs of workers employed in a retail network in the field of sale of goods and services. The research is based on the international method of questioning VSM94 and personal interviews. The output of this thesis is a detailed analysis, which became the basis for unraveling the drawbacks of the conteporal state of the described problem and also the basis for the proposal of solution.