Not just money: quality of working life as employment strategy
Scarcities of qualified personnel are a substantial problem in
securing an adequate workforce. At the same time, increasing wages to
secure an adequate workforce is not always possible or sufficiently
effective, and other ways of retaining and recruiting personnel have to
be found. Investigates the importance of various job characteristics for
retaining and recruiting employees and presents the results from a
survey among employees of a Dutch hospital experiencing a tight labour
market. Job characteristics other than wages, such as labour relations
and work content, were found to play a major role in individuals'
choices to resign or stay. Discusses consequences for employment
strategies in other organizations.
Keywords: Employment; Recruitment; Retention; The Netherlands
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 March 1995
- Merged with Journal of Management in Medicine in 1999
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