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Addressing a National Turnover Problem from an HRD Perspective: A Field Research Study of Direct Care Workers
12/15/2005 | Requests *Summary
There is significant concern over high turnover rates among direct care workers providing in-home care. This paper describes “research in progress” of a 3-year field study examining relationships between interventions and measures of job satisfaction and turnover. Economic and non-economic interventions were introduced to a population of nearly 700. Preliminary findings suggest that job satisfaction increases not only from workers’ participation in, but simply their awareness of interventions.
Author
Sherlock, John; Morgan, Grant; Karvonen, Meagan
Available Files
- Paper PDF (162K, 6 pages)
Keywords
Wages and Benefits; Recruitment and Retention; Personal Assistant; Researching Human Resource Development; Professional Development; Continuing Education; Career Development; direct care workers; DCW
Topic
Workforce/Direct Care
Type/Tool
Promising practices, Reports
Source
Western Carolina University
State
North Carolina, All States/Territories
Date Created
12/15/2005
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Carrie Blakeway
The Lewin Group
Carrie.Blakeway@Lewin.com
703-269-5711
The Lewin Group
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703-269-5711
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