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Strategies For Retaining Qualified And Experienced Employees In The Nonprofit Sector, Ebony Irene Mason
Strategies For Retaining Qualified And Experienced Employees In The Nonprofit Sector, Ebony Irene Mason
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Retention of qualified and experienced employees is the greatest challenge faced by nonprofit organizations. Using transformational leadership theory, the purpose of this single-case study was to explore strategies used by managers of nonprofit organizations to increase employee retention. The population for this study included 3 managers of one nonprofit organization in Texarkana, Texas, with tenure of at least 2 years. These managers had successfully implemented retention strategies to retain qualified and experienced employees for more than 2 years. Collected data included semistructured, face-to-face interviews and from archived documents that pertained to employee retention in nonprofit organizations. The data analysis process …
Employee Turnover In Frontline Hospital Staff, Jeanne Lynn Wilson
Employee Turnover In Frontline Hospital Staff, Jeanne Lynn Wilson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Employee turnover is costly in service-intensive organizations where employee-customer interactions directly affect the organization's success. The purpose of this multiple case study was to identify strategies community hospital leaders use to reduce frontline support employee turnover. The study population consisted of leaders of a community hospital in southeast Louisiana. The conceptual framework for this study is Kahn's model of employee engagement. Semistructured interviews were conducted with eight hospital leaders in southeast Louisiana who were selected through census sampling. Interview transcripts were analyzed and coded following Yin's case study analysis process. Methodological triangulation allowed for a comparison of the findings of …