Key Points: Relationship between turnover rates and organizational performance is significant and negative. Voluntary and reduction-in-force (RIF) turnover have more negative impact than involuntary turnover rates in the context of organizational performance. We have been going through a tough job market with lots of uncertainties: Covid lockdowns, rising and waning inflation, disruption of supply chains,
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Key Points: Selection tools are quite different in their ability to predict performance than previously thought. Some less, some more. Overall (rather than contextualized) personality measures and years of job experience, are not meaningful predictors of performance. Structured Interviews, Job Knowledge, Biodata, Work Samples, Cognitive Ability and Integrity Tests are useful assessment methods and criteria.
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Key Points: Job insecurity is significantly related to a staggering 51 unique negative work and individual outcomes. Cognitive job insecurity – thoughts tied to job insecurity – and affective job insecurity – feelings tied to job insecurity – are found to be related but different concepts. Feelings related to job insecurity seem to be more
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Key Points: Providing support for autonomy can help provide the basic underlying needs for intrinsic motivation – autonomy, competence and connectedness. When these needs are satisfied, employees are more likely to experience intrinsic motivation for their work. This is in-turn related to higher levels of general well-being, work engagement and positive work behaviors, and lower
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Key Points: Applicant experience seems to be linked to how applicants perceive the organization or whether they finish their application or not. Applicant experience’s correlation with perception and behavior do not seem to vary based on gender and sex. There are no differences between males and females and various age groups. Nowadays, many companies use
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