Employee survey is an instrument to increase employee satisfaction and involvement. Approximately 65 percent of all organisations in the Netherlands conduct periodical employee surveys. But what is behind such a Staff Research? And what is the added value? This article therefore explains what Staff Research is and how this instrument has developed in recent decades.
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From now on, Graydon will be using the international Exit Analytics solution of Presearch. Exit Analytics automates the feedback process when an employee leaves and is now integrated in the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
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American retailer Zappos offers new employees at the end of their training course a bonus of one month's salary to leave the organisation. Amazon goes a step further and offers all permanent employees up to $5,000 a year to pack their belongings.1. But why?
By offering a bonus to the leaving the organization will be staff turnover among unmotivated employees encouraged. Both Zappos and Amazon are convinced that in the long run term pays off to say goodbye to relatively underperforming workers in order to have a strong team. And that idea isn't just out of the blue grabbed. Research shows that there is an optimal rate of displacement.
But what exactly is staff turnover? How can you optimize your personnel policy to achieve the right outflow rate? to pursue? And what costs play a role after staff turnover?
Read more "What is staff turnover? And what is a good expiration rate? " →Despite the broad labour market, insight into staff turnover essential. The damage caused by undesired staff turnover leads, in the most ideal case, to short-term costs. These can amount to thousands of euros per case (Zeynep & Huckman, 2008). These include loss of productivity, advertising and recruitment costs.