The Causes of Turnover in Lebanon
In addition to the above mentioned general causes of turnover, there are certain causes specific to Lebanon such as:
Economic Slowdown: The bad economic situation in Lebanon is leaving companies unable to promote employees and increase their salaries.
Political and Security Situation: The persisting domestic political uncertainties, a further delay of constitutional milestones, and widening regional security drifts played an essential role in employees turnover in Lebanon, and forced many employees to search for a safer place to work in abroad.
Competition of Foreign Labor: The competition of foreign labor lead to the decrease of the salaries of the Lebanese employees, and to the replacement of certain Lebanese
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A well-thought-out training and career development program can provide a strong incentive for employees to stay in the organization.
Relationship between compensation and benefits and turnover: Employees desire a fair compensation system that is equivalent to their skills, knowledge and experience. Therefore, HRM must recognize that pay is the main employee’s concern since it provides a tangible reward for the employees for their efforts as well as a source of recognition. Employee compensation and benefits include all forms of pay, bonuses, rewards, commissions, recognition programs, and flexible work arrangements.
Relationship between career development and turnover: Career development is the processes of helping employees acquire the skills and experience they need to perform current and future jobs. Career development is an ongoing process that considers employees as the vital organizational resources. Therefore, career development must be considered as a key business strategy if an organization wants to continue to function in a competitive global business environment. Organizations should provide their employees the chance to develop and grow which will motivate them to
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In Lebanon, many companies continue to hold traditional views of human resource management and consequently fail to capitalize on its full potential. Lebanese companies should be aware of the essential role human resources department plays in achieving high organizational performance and in dealing effectively with all the challenges the organization may face. Therefore, Lebanese companies should invest more in the human resources department and boost its work.
Finally, we can say that employee turnover can be an avoidable challenge if the human resources department formulates effective retaining strategies and practices and implement them in order to maintain competent and skillful workforce that the organization depends on to increase profitability and accomplish its strategic
Conflicts between workers and employers are prevalent to this day. From fair wages, to better working conditions, and even to appropriate healthcare, there is always some form of questioning that needs to be addressed. Dating back to the late 1800’s the economy and labor market of the United States underwent massive changes which mainly revolved around people of all different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds becoming wage laborers. Due to these previously unheard-of changes, a conflict between the employees and employers began. Therefore, in order to resolve labor issues, through great difficulty workers created unions and protested against their employers.
Career development is the process of the personal development at the workplace. It’s a part of human development that lasts over one’s lifetime. Which includes education and training. There are several factors and interactions that influence career development. This paper will view the concept of Krumboltz theory and how it plays a part in my personal life.
However, there is always room for growth and improvement. By taking an in depth look at Target Corporation and understanding organizational structure, task organization, communication factors, competition, culture, and factors of success give insight to things that can be improved. To assist in improvements and long-term success, five suggested human resource policies that include recruiting, hiring, and retaining, compensation, vacation and sick pay, discrimination and harassment, and retirement policies will assist the organization in their overall production and productivity. By addressing this topics Target Corporation will take care of employees from day one to retirement. In doing so, productivity, quality control, innovation, and profit will improve.
Unlike the American workers, the immigrants do not bargain over the welfare compensations. Therefore, many organizations are likely to employ immigrants compared to the American employees just to lower the operating expenses to the corporation. Taking into account all these effects of immigration of skilled employees, the rising numbers trained immigrants will eventually pose a threat to the unemployment and a fall in wages in
Thirdly, I believe that flexibility is very important today with the employees, because if the working hours are not flexible, they tend to either do not prefer working here or when they get the opportunity they move out. So if wee summarize, in my experience I believe that wages, growth and flexibility are the main reasons that cause turnover in the
The Lebanese Civil War lasted 15 years, starting in 1975 and ending in 1990, involving mostly the Lebanese army, the Phalangists and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Still today, there are political complications and tension in Lebanon therefore it has never really recovered from the major war that harmed the country significantly. Most of the conflict was located in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon however there were frequent attacks in various other villages and towns throughout the war. The essay will focus on the causes and the effects of the civil war, varying from political tensions to cultural differences. The years 1975 and 1990 are especially useful for the investigation as they will display the main causes and the main effects that are related to the war.
Career education programs are the primary method used for providing career development assistance to students. Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions. Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction. Students will also understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training, and the world of work. In addition, the program aim is to help students improve academic competence, graduate from high school, develop employability skills and implement a career plan and participate in a career pathway in preparing for post-secondary education and
INTRODUCTION Human resource management is the strategic approach to the management of an organization 's most valued assets - the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the goals of the business (Armstrong, M., 2006). In other words, human resource management is a to work with employees, and for the employees, to help them solve their problems. Therefore, human resource is a complicate department, as they deal with people who already work there, they also deal with several issues which happen among new employees, such as recruitment, selection and so on. Nowadays, employee retention becomes one of the most significant issue in the organizations, and managers are aiming to find the best employees
Globalization leads to the immigration of employees that make
Labor sectors estimate the number of job seekers entering the labor market annually at around 700,000 and 800,000, which is considered a huge number compared to the production capacity of the Egyptian economy (Ghoneim, Ahmed). In addition, there is a great conflict between availability of skills and labor market requirements. The lack of qualified human capital implies that there is a mismatch between the outputs of the education system and the demands of the labor market, which results in high rates of unemployment reaching about 12% (Ghoneim, Ahmed). Hence, migration to other countries is regarded as an outlet for those unemployed. Egyptian migrants usually send back home remittances that represent one of the largest financial inflows to the country.
Human Resource outcomes. 5. Long-term consequences. 6. Feedback loop.
Uncomfortable / unbalanced work life , people now a days believe in doing multi- tasking which results in not maintain the work life, now a days employees want convent job a job which they are able to do other work too and also able to maintain the balance between work and life. Employee retention is the process where the organization tries to motivate the employees to stay in the organization, organization tries the level best to retain the employees for a long period of time. Any organization does not have power to stop any of its employees until or unless they have some stratify or a plan to retain the employees in the organization. Different companies have different ways of retaining the employees, but what matter is what is the plan set in the mind of the company to retain the employees.
Researchers have shaped compelling evidence for the fundamental relation between employee performance and how management acts with them (Boheene & Asuinura, 2011). They claim that the effectiveness of human resource practices, particularly employee selection, performance appraisals, benefits and reward management, procedures and employee training and development often have a direct effect on the productivity and performance of the employee. And implementing an effective human resource management can enhance the organization 's ability to attract and maintain qualified and motivated employees yield greater profitability, low employee turnover and these invariably lead to higher productivity.
Introduction Globalization is a fact of Economic Life – Carlos Salinas De Gortari. Globalization is not a new thought. This process of interaction and integration among the companies, people and government of different countries is happening from ages. Technology has been the major driver of globalization. Economic life has been transformed dramatically by the advances in information technology.
It could be applied for retaining an ageing workforce to promote continuity of care, and retain more experienced HCP in the workforce. The experienced HCP would act as role model among young HCP, and pass their knowledge and skills to them and subsequently improve the quality of healthcare services. They would decide to stay in the organization because of familiarize of working culture and appreciated, and they might not be able to get high salaries in other organizations due to high competition. However, more money does not indicate higher motivation. Therefore, additional retention strategies for HCP should be