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My Lawfully Wedded Workplace: Identifying Relational Similarities Of Marriage And Employment, Irit Alony, Helen M. Hasan, Andrew J. Sense, Michael L. Jones

Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel direction of enquiry into predictions of employee turnover through the application of a qualitative method adapted from marital research. This method focuses on diagnosing the relationship, and has been able to predict divorce with an accuracy of over 90 per cent, as opposed to existing turnover prediction methods' modest success of about 30 per cent. By demonstrating that the method can be applied to turnover research, this study completes a seminal step in developing this promising direction of enquiry.

Design/methodology/approach - The Oral History Interview method for predicting …

Tales Of It Consultants: Understanding Psychological Contract Maintenance And Employment Termination, Karlheinz Kautz, Gro Bjerknes

Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)

This research investigates the question why dedicated Information Technology (IT) consultants quit their jobs and voluntarily terminate their employment contracts. A research approach inspired by grounded theory is used and as a theoretical contribution a novel, cyclic process model for the maintenance or neglect of the psychological contract between employees and employers is derived from the empirical data. The model is subsequently substantiated through the integration of various concepts and theories identified in the literature, combining the concept of psychological contract with social influence theory and a theory of the relation between intrinsic motivation and management practices. The research is …