Social status of the clerical worker and his permanence on the job.

Bills, Marion A.

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“…From the early days of applied research (Bills, 1925; Diemer, 1917; Douglas, 1918; Eberle, 1919) and informed speculation (Barnard, 1983), employee turnover has been a vital issue for management and applied psychology. Since March and Simon’s (1958) theory and its elaboration by Mobley (1977) and Price (1977), theory-driven research is a proud hallmark of turnover scholarship and JAP publications.…”

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“…Although earlier articles on turnover appeared, Bills (1925) published the first empirical turnover study in JAP , demonstrating that clerical workers more often quit if their fathers were professionals or small business owners than those whose fathers worked unskilled or semiskilled jobs. While omitting statistical tests of the relationship between parental occupational status and turnover, Bills nonetheless introduced a predictive research design for assessing whether application questions can predict turnover—an approach that evolved into the “standard research design” for test validation and theory testing for most of the 20th century (Steel, 2002).…”

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One hundred years of employee turnover theory and research.

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Lee

Shaw

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Journal of Applied Psychology

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We review seminal publications on employee turnover during the 100-year existence of the . Along with classic articles from this journal, we expand our review to include other publications that yielded key theoretical and methodological contributions to the turnover literature. We first describe how the earliest papers examined practical methods for turnover reduction or control and then explain how theory development and testing began in the mid-20th century and dominated the academic literature until the turn of the century. We then track 21st century interest in the psychology of staying (rather than leaving) and attitudinal trajectories in predicting turnover. Finally, we discuss the rising scholarship on collective turnover given the centrality of human capital flight to practitioners and to the field of human resource management strategy. (PsycINFO Database Record

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One hundred years of employee turnover theory and research.

Hom

Lee

Shaw

et al. 2017

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…Early empirical turnover research was concerned with identifying individual characteristics associated with turnover, for example through mental alertness tests (Snow, 1923) and evaluating social status (Bills, 1925). The books by Colvin (1919) and Emmet (1919) were followed by others exploring turnover (Brissenden & Frankel, 1921, 1922; Fish, 1922; Slichter, 1919) and were accompanied by more journal articles.…”

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A century of labour turnover research: A systematic literature review

Bolt

Winterton

Cafferkey

2022

Int J Management Reviews

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Labour turnover has been an important research topic in social science over the past century, involving disciplines such as human resource management, industrial relations, organizational behaviour, individual and organizational psychology, economics and health sciences. This paper presents a systematic literature review of voluntary labour turnover, providing an in-depth analysis of 1375 labour turnover studies published up to July 2019 in 142 academic journals listed in the Chartered Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Guide 2018. The analysis of theoretical and empirical labour turnover studies reveals:(1) distinctive foci in the development of labour turnover research over the past hundred years; (2) relative lack of attention to testing specific labour turnover theories; (3) a prevailing quantitative approach to identifying antecedents of labour turnover; (4) increased reliance on turnover intention as a proxy for actual turnover. This paper highlights these trends over time, providing insight into problematic areas from theoretical, methodological and empirical points of view.We suggest avenues for a more productive route to coherent theoretical, methodological and empirical development of labour turnover research.

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“…Kitson (158) reports a similar statistical study of office workers. Bills (16), in a study including perhaps too few cases, finds an indirect relationship between the stability of clerks and the social status of parents. Kornhauser (174), in his study of bookkeeping machine operators, finds, among other things, that the number of years of schooling agrees as well as test scores with efficiency records.…”

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Psychology in industry.

Viteles¹

1926

Psychological Bulletin

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Social status of the clerical worker and his permanence on the job.

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One hundred years of employee turnover theory and research.

One hundred years of employee turnover theory and research.

A century of labour turnover research: A systematic literature review

Psychology in industry.

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