Turnover, Absence, and Transfer Rates as Indicators of Employee Dissatisfaction with Repetitive Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3355129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maurice D Kilbridge (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21 |
| Publication date | 1961-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2519600 |
| OpenAlex | W4240092936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
It is frequently alleged that the extreme division of labor or simplification of tasks in mass-production industries is a major source of job dissatisfaction. Moreover, according to this view, workers typically express their discontent with the monotony of highly repetitive jobs in high rates of absenteeism and labor turnover, or by seeking transfers to less repetitive work. The findings of the study reported in this article dispute the usefulness of such personnel phenomena as indicators of the degree of employee dissatisfaction with repetitive work. A variety of other job conditions submerged the effect, if any, of repetitiveness on turnover, absenteeism, and transfer rates in two manufacturing companies studied by the author. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)
Absenteeism · Business · Courtesy · Demographic economics · Division of labour · Economics · Employee retention · Human resource management · Job satisfaction · Labour economics · Management · Operations management · Political science · Turnover · Variety (cybernetics) · Work (physics) · Collaboration in agile enterprises · Computer Science · Engineering · Engineering and Environmental Studies · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Marketing · Psychology · Quality and Supply Management · Social Psychology
Organizational, work, and personal factors in employee turnover and absenteeism
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Major influences on employee attendance
Employee reactions to job characteristics.
Job Enlargement, Individual Differences, and Worker Responses
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 1978 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |