Event:
Preventing Employee Turnover: A New Direction
in Understanding Why Employees Stay
Date and Time:
Thursday, March 1, 2007 1:00 pm EST
Panelist(s) Info:
David Rowlee, Ph.D., Vice
President, Research & Development
Duration:
1 hour 30 minutes
Description:
Research shows that a surprising number of exiting employees separate
from organizations (i) with highly satisfactory views of the workplace and
work experiences, and (ii) for reasons not in the organization’s immediate
control. This finding helps explain why traditional exit surveys aimed at measuring
employee dissatisfaction have not always been useful as a way to assess why
employees are truly leaving. In this presentation, we demonstrate a new strategy
through which organizations can enhance their retention strategies by shifting
the focus from why employees leave to why employees stay.
Our research across healthcare organizations, articulated through an analysis
of The University of Chicago Hospitals, illuminates three critical workplace
factors that primarily insulate employees from leaving their organizations.
We will illustrate a comprehensive process for measuring these critical workplace
factors.
Unlike exit surveys designed to capture feedback from employees who have left
the organization, our new approach is a proactive method that leads to the
prevention of employee turnover before it actually occurs.
Following this presentation, you will be able to
- Understand the three key workplace issues that most contribute
to employee turnover.
- Identify groups throughout an organization that demonstrate
an elevated risk of employee turnover.
- Design a comprehensive, straightforward retention strategy
to proactively prevent employee turnover.
Presenter Info:
David Rowlee, Ph.D., Vice President,
Research & Development
As leader of Morehead’s R&D Group, Dave develops new research products
and customizes client solutions.
He has ten years experience in survey research, behavioral modeling, social
network analysis, and statistics. Before joining Morehead, David served as
Project Director for a global survey research organization and as a visiting
professor of Sociology. David holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Sociology (Social
Psychology) from the University of South Carolina, a Professional Certificate
of Social Science from Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), and B.A.
degrees in Sociology and Anthropology. |
