The aim of this research was to determine the factors that influence retention of personnel at Cor Jesu College in the Philippines and establish guidelines for effective staff retention. A qualitative research design involving the descriptive sample survey method to collect data by means of self- administered structured questionnaire was adopted. The sample consisted of 70 Cor Jesu personnel. The information was statistically analysed with the aid of a computer after which it was interpreted. Results indicated that teachers were not satisfied with their jobs and that their retention was affected by several aspects of their work. Working conditions emerged as the major source of dissatisfaction while interpersonal relations were a principal retention factor. / Educational Studies / M.A. (Education Management)

This thesis examines library managers' attitude to the composition of the library workforce and their perceived resources and power to promote a library workforce which better represents the community in which it operates. What do the managers consider causes this composition and what changes do they find possible to implement in the future. The method used for collecting the material was e-mail and telephone interviews. The material is analyzed mainly through Taylor Cox' theories about the multicultural organization in which Cox demonstrates the positive impact that cultural heterogeneity has at a workplace by creating non-discriminatory effective organizations in which people from all different socio-cultural backgrounds are included. Some intersectional theory and related research also form the basis for the analysis. The results show that managers are very much aware of the problem of an overly homogeneous library workforce. They express that diversity needs to increase in all public institutions for it to take place in a library context. They also believe that the most limiting factor of the ability to conduct successful diversity efforts is a lack of resources, time and budget. There is a widespread perception among the managers that a change in recruitment strategies must be implemented in order to overcome the homogeneity. The thesis further highlights a couple of managers' lack of sufficient diversity knowledge. Without the relevant knowledge among managers, one can not expect diversity strategies to be formulated adequately or implemented satisfactorily. Although the managers claim an eagerness to make a change, there is a lack of practical suggestions on which to act in their responses. However, it is not solely in the library managers' hands to improve the current situation, it requires everyone with influence on this issue to make it prioritized. This is a two years master’s thesis in Archive, Library and Museum studies.

Thesis (MTech (Human Resource Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. / As the worldwide demand for quality higher education seems to be increasing, growing concern for the foreseeable future over the supply and talent retention of researchers and academics has become a major discussion amongst higher education institutions in South Africa Higher Education South Africa (HESA, 2014). Today almost half of South Africa’s population is under 25 years old and 30 percent are under 15 years old (World Bank, 2015:38). While the country is experiencing this demographic window of opportunity, the majority of academics are entering the retirement phase of their careers (HESA, 2014). Under such circumstances, these academic staff will need to be replaced with talented employees thus alerting scholars to investigate the issue. To reach target levels of education and skills development which will promote growth and development of the economy, it will be essential for the country to attract talented academic staff (Zuma, 2014). It is essential for South Africa to attract academic staff in order to enable government to reach target levels of education and skills development which will promote growth and development of the economy (Zuma, 2014). Retaining academic staff will further ensure that tertiary institutions accomplish their visions and missions and thereby becoming centres of excellence (Ng’ethe, Iravo and Namusonge, 2012). In a study by Currie (2006:119) it was found that the financial costs associated in losing experienced academic staff makes it necessary to retain them. Currently, there appears to be limited research studies on talent attraction and retention factors in higher learning institutions. Previous scholars that have attempted to research into talent management components in higher education (Theron, Barkhuizen and du Plesis, 2014) only focused on factors in academic turnover and retention factors while some scholars only researched on intention to quit factors amongst Generation Y academics in higher education (Robyn and du Preez, 2013). The talent management domain is not receiving enough attention and gaps in research seem to exist in the context of talent management system in higher learning institutions. The research focused on the emerging trends relating in the discipline of talent management specifically on talent attraction and retention which have become predominant topics in the higher education. The study provides comprehensive overview of challenges and obstacles that are found in the aspect of talent management within the higher education sector. It is against this background that the primary aim of the researcher was to introduce a framework model to attract and retain talented employees as the means to harness the issue of talent management in the higher education sector.

University of Macau / Faculty of Business Administration / Department of Management and Marketing

"But you've got to make sure you communicate in the right way [laughs] so that no one else knows what you're talking about. [Laughing]" (Interview I) The study examines the rhetoric of 'racial' exclusion used by South African private recruitment consultants to justify racist practice, criticise employment equity and deny racism. The dilemmatic nature of clients racially based requests is understood in a context that socially and legally forbids "unfair discrimination" and racist practice. The reader is provided with an overview of the legislation as it pertains to recruitment and the psychological study of 'race' in order to locate this study within its historical context. An historical context of segregation and resistance to changes in employment practices. We examine how South African psychology has investigated 'race' and racism - past and present. Psychology has traditionally explained 'white' resistance to transformation in terms of 'racial' prejudice. These attitudinal approaches fail to explicate the role of language in the reproduction and conservation of these historical patterns. By providing the reader with an historical overview "interpretative connections" (Wetherell and Potter, 1992) will be established that assist in the analysis of the text. Transcribed interviews with nine private recruitment consultants in two urban centres in South Africa serve as textual evidence. The analysis demonstrates the rhetorical strategies employed by consultants in their conversations, discussions, negotiations, criticism and justification of the conservation of historical employment patterns. Private recruitment consultants engage in a number of rhetorical manoeuvres that appeal to 'white' norms and construct' black' as a requirement and deficient. The construction of' white' and' black' serves as a platform for justifying the historically established 'racial' hierarchy and conserving 'racial' privilege. Consultants construct their practice as a 'reasonable' response to clients' blatant 'racially' based requests for candidates. This is done by splitting racism into 'reasonable' and 'unreasonable' racism. 'Unreasonable' racism is defined as explicit I blatant acts that are located externally and in the past. This splitting functions to distance recruitment consultants from the racist practices of their clients and to counter potential accusations of racism. Their arguments function ideologically to defend the historical status quo in employment and criticise social transformation in South Africa. The study concludes with recommendations for the private recruitment industry in South Africa and suggests future areas of study using a discursive approach. The analysis highlights the need for external auditing of the private recruitment agencies to ensure the enactment and successful implementation of the Employment Equity Act of 1998 and the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act of 2000. Furthermore, more detailed analysis of the object of racism, namely the construction of 'whiteness', could be useful in understanding resistance to transformation in the private sector and the (re)production of racism. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2002.

The main aim of this thesis is to explore the structured use of behavioural science in helping to frame employment research. This structured framing intended to help stimulate more interdisciplinary interaction between sub-disciplines that study employment and behavioural science, setting out new empirical and theoretical applications to the study of employment decision-making. Firstly, the application of specific behavioural science concepts to employment scenarios, structured around the core facets of behavioural science, introducing the types of bias studied in behavioural science in turn. These core facets are cognitive and social biases, risk preferences and biases, time preferences and biases. These were combined with illustrative examples of how these biases might affect employment decision-making. The employment cycle is then used to demonstrate how the concepts in behavioural science may play out across a range of employment scenarios, unearthing potential theoretical and empirical applications. A behavioural science framing was then used to investigate factors related to the addition or omission of low rated journal publications in the assessment of academic resumes. The results of these investigations showed that low rated journal publications are still of some value, albeit journal ratings play a crucial role. Importantly, the extent to which additional low rated journal publications are valued could depend on unconscious social biases that are based on prior expectations, potentially dictated by organizational and ideological learning over time. The empirical work presented data collected from 1,011 psychology and management faculty based at U.K. and U.S.A. universities. The data was collected using an online randomized control trial survey experiment designed to test the assessment of publication records on academic resumes. Only faculty at levels likely to be involved in academic appointment panels and reviewing academic resumes were contacted to take part.

The challenge being experienced by higher education to attract and retain talented academics, particularly black staff, motivated this particular study. The challenge has been experienced by the higher education sector since the democratic dispensation in South Africa in 1994 with minimal published research having been undertaken in this specific field. In addition, it did not appear that there was a tangible solution or strategy by education leaders to respond to the crisis facing higher education. Meanwhile, seasoned academics, particularly white staff, continue to retire taking with them invaluable intellectual capital at a loss to academe. The challenges cited by academics for leaving academe do not augur well for the academic profession as a career of choice particularly for young black potential academics. The present study adopted a mixed methods approach using data collection instruments associated with both the quantitative and qualitative research paradigms. Talent management typically consists of four pillars of intervention viz. attraction, retention, development and deployment. The first part of the doctoral thesis focussed on the analysis of literature and empirical documents found in three of the four talent management pillars, namely attraction, retention and development. Deployment is not practical in the academic sector. The second part of the doctoral thesis focussed on a sample of academics in particular colleges or faculties at three South African universities. In the process following the implementation of the survey and interviews, ideas and themes were identified in the data. The research study presented a recommendation in response to the challenge to attract and retain academics, particularly black staff, with a particular emphasis on the development of black academics at lower levels. This is within the broader context of the academic employer value proposition. The study recommends that to attract and retain talented academics, particularly black staff, education leaders should focus on investing resources into the management of talent inherent in black academics at lower levels. / Public Administration / D. P. A.

The aim of this research was to determine the factors that influence retention of personnel at Cor Jesu College in the Philippines and establish guidelines for effective staff retention. A qualitative research design involving the descriptive sample survey method to collect data by means of self- administered structured questionnaire was adopted. The sample consisted of 70 Cor Jesu personnel. The information was statistically analysed with the aid of a computer after which it was interpreted. Results indicated that teachers were not satisfied with their jobs and that their retention was affected by several aspects of their work. Working conditions emerged as the major source of dissatisfaction while interpersonal relations were a principal retention factor. / Educational Studies / M.A. (Education Management)

O objetivo deste trabalho é identificar quais mecanismos de transferência de tecnologia das instituições de ensino superior são avaliados no processo de recrutamento e seleção de pessoas. Para alcança-lo utilizamos o método indutivo, pesquisa básica, a propósito de seus objetivos exploratórios, os procedimentos técnicos: a bibliografia e o levantamento. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo e o método utilizado foi o survey exploratório. Para compor o resultado foi delimitada a região dos campos gerais do estado do Paraná no Brasil, o estudo inclui a participação de quatro IES com total de seis coordenadores de cursos de Tecnologia da Informação e o Arranjo Produtivo Local de Tecnologia da Informação, atualmente formalizado por vinte e uma empresas pertencentes ao Núcleo Setorial de TI. Os resultados encontrados foram: (i) Não há fundamentação teórica detalhada dos mecanismos de transferência de tecnologia; (ii) Os tipos de processo de recrutamento e seleção de pessoas identificados na literatura foram o tradicional e o baseado em competências; (iii) Os Mecanismos de transferência de tecnologia encontrados nos cursos foram: EAC, EUN, ICI, TCC, DME, TDO, MES, PCI, TES, PPA, EIN, DAI, COM, EVE, IEM, EMP, DPE; (iv) O tipo de processo de recrutamento e seleção de pessoal utilizado pelas empresas do arranjo produtivo loca é o Tradicional, mas ainda deficiente confrontado com a literatura; (v) Entre os mecanismos de transferência de tecnologia mapeados nos cursos de tecnologia da informação apenas 3 são avaliados no processo de recrutamento e seleção de pessoal, são eles: EAC, TCC, TES. Conclui-se que existe a execução de mecanismos de transferência de tecnologia na formação de profissionais de tecnologia da informação, mas não existe relevância desses mecanismos de transferência de tecnologia no processo de recrutamento e seleção, possivelmente pelos seguintes motivos: (i) a falta de conhecimento dos responsáveis pelo processo sobre mecanismos de transferência de tecnologia, dificultando a avaliação; (ii) O processo de recrutamento e seleção de pessoal nas empresas são frágeis; (iii) O mecanismos executados pelos candidatos no processo de recrutamento e seleção são ocultos por parte dos candidatos; (iv) Os responsáveis pelo processo afirmam que os mecanismos utilizados para formação de mão de obra de tecnologia da informação não esta baseado em necessidade de mercado, ainda há uma preocupação em formação generalizada e (v) Os coordenadores de curso assumem a falta de comprometimento das empresas em oferecer parceria na execução de alguns mecanismos de transferência de tecnologia. / This work aims to identify which mechanisms for technology transfer into the higher education are evaluated into the process of people recruitment and selection. In order to obtain the results we used the inductive method, basic research, the purpose of its exploratory goals, technical procedures: the bibliography and gathering. It is about a qualitative study and the method used was an exploratory survey. In order to arrange the result it was delimited the region of campos gerais in Parana state, Brazil, the study includes the participation of four IES, with a total of six coordinators from the course of Information Technology and its Local Productive Arrangement of Information Technology, currently formalized for twenty and one companies belonged to IT Sector Center. The found results were: (i) There is no detailed theoretical reasoning of the mechanisms for technology transfer; (ii) The kind of process of people recruitment and selection identified in the literature were the traditional and it was based in competence; (iii) The Mechanisms for technology transfer found into the course were: EAC, EUN, ICI, TCC, DME, TDO, MES, PCI, TES, PPA, EIN, DAI, COM, EVE, IEM, EMP, DPE; (iv) The kind of process for people recruitment and selection used by the companies from the local productive arrangement is the Traditional, but still deficient when compared to the literature; (v) Among the mechanisms for technology transfer that were mapped in the courses of information technology only 3 are evaluated in the process of people recruitment and selection, they are: EAC, TCC, TES. It is concluded that there is the implementation of mechanisms for technology transfer in the training of information technology, there is no relevance of these mechanisms for technology transfer into the process for people recruitment and selection, probably by the followed reasons: (i) lack of knowledge from the responsible by the process about the mechanisms for technology transfer, becoming difficult the evaluation; (ii) The process of people recruitment and selection into the companies are fragile; (iii) The executed mechanisms by the candidates in the process of people recruitment and selection are unknown by the candidates' side; (iv) The responsible people affirm that the used mechanisms in order to form labor for information technology area are not based into the market needs, It is still concern about general formation and (v) The Coordinators in course take over the lack of compromising from the companies in offering partnership in the execution of some mechanisms for technology transfer.

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Humanities Education / PhD / Unrestricted