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Book Review - Drive: The Truth About What Motivates Us, Wyatt Pagano
Book Review - Drive: The Truth About What Motivates Us, Wyatt Pagano
Marriott Student Review
This is a book review of Drive: The Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink.
Reducing Employee Turnover In The Big Four Public Accounting Firms, Erin L. Maclean
Reducing Employee Turnover In The Big Four Public Accounting Firms, Erin L. Maclean
CMC Senior Theses
Employee turnover is extremely costly to any business in terms of training costs and loss of pertinent knowledge and experience. This paper explores the contributors to the high rates of employee turnover seen in public accounting by focusing on the Big Four accounting firms, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Employee retention is a factor of corresponding employee motivation, as seen through the analysis of popular motivational theories and their applications to a career in public accounting. This paper also delves into the possible contributors to the differences in retention rates between males and females in this occupation. Lastly, an analysis …