When the farm-gate becomes a revolving door: An institutional approach to high labour turnover

Staelens, Lotte; Louche, Céline

doi:10.1177/0018726717702209

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“…Many international scholars and journalists are documenting exorbitant attrition among rural migrants in emerging economies, who are essential for economic development of their societies through their employment in export-oriented manufacturing and domestic infrastructure (Beamish, 2006;Zhou and Sun, 2011;Harney, 2010;Staelens and Louche, 2017). Yet the available UCEA turnover literature furnishes an incomplete understanding about why they quit jobs as they are so unlike UCEA workforces in culture, precarious employment and rural-to-urban transition (Lee, 2016).…”

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Am I a peasant or a worker? An identity strain perspective on turnover among developing-world migrants

Qin

Hom²,

2018

Human Relations

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Developing-world rural migrants provide crucial labor for global supply chains and economic growth in their native countries. Yet their high turnover engenders considerable organizational costs and disruptions threatening those contributions. Organizational scholars thus strive to understand why these workers quit, often applying turnover models and findings predominantly derived from the United States, Canada, England or Australia (UCEA). Predominant applications of dominant turnover theories however provide limited insight into why developing-world migrants quit given that they significantly differ from UCEA workforces in culture, precarious employment and rural-to-urban migration. Based on multi-phase, multi-source and multi-level survey data of 173 Chinese migrants working in a construction group, this study adopts an identity strain perspective to clarify why they quit. This investigation established that migrants retaining their rural identity experience more identity strain when working and living in distant urban centers. Moreover, identity strain prompts them to quit when their work groups lack supervisory supportive climates. Furthermore, migrants’ adjustment to urban workplaces and communities mediates the interactive effect of identity strain and supervisory supportive climate on turnover. Overall, this study highlighted how identity strain arising from role transitions and urban adjustment can explain why rural migrants in developing societies quit jobs.

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Am I a peasant or a worker? An identity strain perspective on turnover among developing-world migrants

Qin

Hom²,

2018

Human Relations

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“…Findings from this study are novel and addresses a significant gap in literature by providing insights into how contextual factors may influence the meaning of employee commitment and turnover intention (Cho & Park, 2011;Sheridan et al, 2019). Also, researching in Nigeria widens the empirical scope beyond Western countries that have dominated the framing of existing studies and highlight the significant role of context in framing employee commitment and turnover intention (Staelens & Louche, 2017).…”

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Employee Commitment and Turnover Intention: Perspectives from the Nigerian Public Sector

2021

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This study investigates the conceptualization of employee commitment and turnover intention in the Nigerian public sector using a qualitative approach. Findings suggest that (i) employees expressed a lack of sense of ownership and attached meaning to commitment based on (selfhelp) benefit gained from their organization, and (ii) the lack of scrutiny and accountability in the public sector resulted in low employee turnover intention. The study is novel for developing a framework underscoring how context may affect the conceptualisation of employee commitment and turnover intention.

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“…However, suppliers are usually treated as black boxes. Where managers are asked directly for their opinions, these are usually seen as expressions of firm strategy rather than the subjective perceptions of individuals with their own assumptions about employment and employees (for exceptions see Langan, 2011; Staelens and Louche, 2017; Record et al, 2014; Tran and Jeppesen, 2016).…”

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“…In short, ‘there is a clear gap in the literature regarding the perceptions of suppliers’ (Rahman and Rahman, 2020: 11), despite the ‘critical role played by managers in creating and shaping the work environment and labour dynamics’ (Staelens and Louche, 2017: 2). Buyers’ stated positions on the labour at the bottom of their GVCs may not consistently reflect sincerely held beliefs, or be implemented even to the best of buyers’ abilities.…”

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The Bitter and the Sweet: Managerial Perceptions of the Well-Being of Ethiopian Female Apparel and Horticultural Workers

Fourie,

Dito,

Gudeta

et al. 2023

Progress in Development Studies

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Observers of Ethiopia’s entry into export-oriented global value chains generally agree that social upgrading is crucial if these chains’ largely female workforce is to reap the benefits of participation. They disagree, however, on the extent to which a ‘business case’ can be made to involve in this upgrading the managers who link frontline workers to international buyers. This article takes a novel approach to these questions by directly asking these managers and those who advise them on human resources how they understand the well-being of their frontline workers. Drawing on 37 qualitative semi-structured interviews, we find great variation in the extent to which such actors are interested in pursuing worker well-being and social upgrading beyond basic compliance. This is indeed due in part to the sectoral dynamics that have shaped managers’ views of what constitutes a profitable labour regime but also by sociocultural factors that include managers’ own national contexts, gender and class.

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When the farm-gate becomes a revolving door: An institutional approach to high labour turnover

Abstract: When the farm-gate becomes a revolving door:an institutional approach to high labour turnover

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Am I a peasant or a worker? An identity strain perspective on turnover among developing-world migrants

Am I a peasant or a worker? An identity strain perspective on turnover among developing-world migrants

Employee Commitment and Turnover Intention: Perspectives from the Nigerian Public Sector

The Bitter and the Sweet: Managerial Perceptions of the Well-Being of Ethiopian Female Apparel and Horticultural Workers

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