This study investigates the structure and trends of the labor market in China in the economic transition. Based on two large-scale repeated surveys, we cover a variety of rarely explored issues related to the labor market in China. These issues include labor market participation and various employment such as second jobs and post retirement employment, labor supply issues like working hours, wo...

Objective: This study aimed to determine the relationship between nurses’ perceptions of emotional labor, organizational loyalty, and their turnover intention.
 Methods: was conducted in a private hospital Ankara two hundred seven nurses participated. Correlation analysis used relationships variables. Multiple linear regression measure effect labor loyalty on intention. The data were obtai...

Acknowledgements: We appreciate the valuable research assistance of Tamara Rhynehardt and Lynn McNeil. More than 30 years ago, Armen Alchian (1969) posited that replacement of an inefficient division head would be " quicker " within a conglomerate firm than if the division were a standalone firm. He ended his discussion of the issue with " But what the truth is, I do not know. " Despite the con...

The following paper offers a review of the literature on labour turnover in organizations. Initially the importance of the subject area is established, as analyses of turnover are outlined and critiqued. This leads to a discussion of the various ways in which turnover and its consequences are measured. The potentially critical impact of turnover behaviour on organizational effectiveness is pres...

The following paper offers a review of the literature on labour turnover in organizations. Initially the importance of the subject area is established, as analyses of turnover are outlined and critiqued. This leads to a discussion of the various ways in which turnover and its consequences are measured. The potentially critical impact of turnover behaviour on organizational effectiveness is pres...

Following four decades of economic growth the public sector in Oman is experiencing an emerging problem of labour turnover to the private sector. We examine this phenomenon through semi-structured interviews with 26 current and former public employees. The rate of turnover is low but this masks the impact of losses to key technical and management roles. The main reasons for turnover are dissati...

In this paper, we are interested in the effect of pay incentives on labour turnover and productivity. Particularly we use personnel data from a panel of 400 shops from a UK retail chain. The firm uses perfectly flat hourly wage system with no reward for tenure or individual productivity. This system leads to the phenomenon of negative selection, where only employees with lower outside options r...

The common perception, particularly among employers of labour is that enforcement or implementation of enhanced labour standards would negatively impact on overhead costs thereby impeding the organisation’s competitive advantage through price mechanisms at both national and global marketplace. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis and draw inherent relationships between enforcemen...