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Strategies To Retain Millennial Employees At Full-Service Restaurants, Candace A. Ruiz, Anne Davis
Strategies To Retain Millennial Employees At Full-Service Restaurants, Candace A. Ruiz, Anne Davis
International Journal of Applied Management and Technology
Some supervisors lack effective strategies to retain millennial-generation employees. The purpose of this multicase study was to explore effective strategies to retain culinary-educated millennial employees in a full-service restaurant. Nine millennials and three supervisors from three full-service restaurants in Denver, Colorado, consented to semistructured interviews concerning retention strategies. Herzberg’s two-factor theory served to guide the scope and the data analysis for the multicase study. Ten subcategories emerged from the three themes that aligned with Herzberg’s motivation factors, hygiene factors, and millennial values and attitudes. The 10 subcategories were developed suggesting effective strategies differ by supervisor. Among the 10 subcategories, the …
Employee Turnover Intentions In The Hospitality Industry, Bettye L. Holston-Okae
Employee Turnover Intentions In The Hospitality Industry, Bettye L. Holston-Okae
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Employee turnover is detrimental to organizational performance and profitability, leading to loss of diverse financial and intellectual resources and assets. Grounded in the motivation-hygiene theory, the purpose of this correlational study was to examine the relationship between employee turnover intention and job satisfaction, employee compensation, employee engagement, employee motivation, and work environment. The population consisted of low- to mid-level hospitality employees residing in Western Georgia, Central Mississippi, and North Central Texas, over the age of 18, and employed in the hospitality industry. A convenience sample of 156 participants completed the Compensation Scale, Job Satisfaction Scale, Utrecht Work Employee Engagement Scale, …
Strategies Used By Banking Managers To Reduce Employee Turnover, Amena Shahid
Strategies Used By Banking Managers To Reduce Employee Turnover, Amena Shahid
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Employee retention of an organization's most talented and skilled employees is vital to success. A lack of managerial strategies for motivating teams and a lack of understanding employees' needs adds to an increased rate of employee turnover in banking organizations. Some bank managers do not possess the abilities and strategies required to reduce employee turnover. Grounded by the motivation-hygiene theory; the purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore successful strategies some bank managers used to reduce employee turnover. The population consisted of 5 banking managers in 3 banking organizations located in Toronto GTA, Ontario Canada in which successful …
Voluntary Employee Turnover: Retaining High-Performing Healthcare Employees, Jesse J. Boyd
Voluntary Employee Turnover: Retaining High-Performing Healthcare Employees, Jesse J. Boyd
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Voluntary employee turnover in the healthcare industry is one of the most expensive and disruptive business problems that healthcare organizations encounter. Healthcare organizations can expect employee replacement costs to represent up to 150% of a departing employee's annual salary in new employee acquisition and decreased productivity. Guided by the leader-member exchange theory, the purpose of this single case study was to explore the strategies healthcare managers used to retain high-performing healthcare employees. Using semistructured interviews, the targeted population encompassed 6 healthcare managers from a healthcare organization in Central Texas who have demonstrated successful strategies for retaining high-performing healthcare employees by …
Reducing Fast Food Employee Turnover With Appealing Working Environments, James Lloyd Forrest
Reducing Fast Food Employee Turnover With Appealing Working Environments, James Lloyd Forrest
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
While all business leaders face problems with voluntary employee turnover, fast food business leaders often face turnover rates at twice the national average. Using Weiss and Cropanzano's affective events theory, this exploratory multiple case study detailed the investigation into strategies that fast food business leaders use to establish an appealing working environment that reduces employee turnover. A purposeful sampling process identified 9 fast food business leaders from 3 different fast food organizations within the Omaha, Nebraska metro area who had successfully established a positive working environment that reduced employee turnover. Data collection included semistructured interviews and review of company documents. …