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Consistency in inter‐organizational labour turnover
Author(s) -
MERWE R.,
MILLER SYLVIA
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of occupational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0305-8107
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00309.x
Subject(s) - turnover , consistency (knowledge bases) , internal consistency , demographic economics , race (biology) , labour economics , turnover intention , economics , degree (music) , psychology , social psychology , organizational commitment , sociology , management , mathematics , developmental psychology , psychometrics , gender studies , geometry , physics , acoustics
Twenty‐one secondary industry organizations were ranked on the basis of labour turnover rates for two successive years. Despite large variations in the level of rates over time, rankings showed a high degree of constancy. It is suggested that there are relatively stable organizational characteristics which determine a recurrent pattern of labour wastage and which are relatively powerful compared with such factors as race. The need to separate individual, organizational and economic factors in labour turnover is stressed, and assumptions regarding the prediction of turnover are questioned.