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Employee Turnover and Employee Performance: A Study among Nurses


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This descriptive research study has been undertaken in private multispeciality hospitals, Tirunelveli City, Tamil Nadu to examine the perception of nurses towards the impact of employee turnover on employee performance. The study has sampled 60 nurses qualified with Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM) and Bachelor in Nursing (B.Sc Nursing) courses using judgement sampling technique. Primary data have been collected through a constructed questionnaire. Secondary data have been collected from books, journals, projects and journals. Percentage method has been applied to analyse profile of the respondents. The study has administered mean and standard deviation to understand perception of nurses towards impact of employee turnover on performance of the existing nurses. The results of the study has found that more workload for the existing employees, inability to leave the duty on time, health issues, inadequate care for the patients, conflict and dispute among the coworkers, stress, inability to take decisions on time and inability to segregate biomedical wastes are the foremost impact of employee turnover on performance of existing employees.

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Nurse, Employee Turnover, Employee Performance, Multi Speciality Hospital, Tirunelveli City.
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D. Rajan
Department of Management Studies, DMI-St. John the Baptist University, Mangochi, Malawi

Abstract


This descriptive research study has been undertaken in private multispeciality hospitals, Tirunelveli City, Tamil Nadu to examine the perception of nurses towards the impact of employee turnover on employee performance. The study has sampled 60 nurses qualified with Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM) and Bachelor in Nursing (B.Sc Nursing) courses using judgement sampling technique. Primary data have been collected through a constructed questionnaire. Secondary data have been collected from books, journals, projects and journals. Percentage method has been applied to analyse profile of the respondents. The study has administered mean and standard deviation to understand perception of nurses towards impact of employee turnover on performance of the existing nurses. The results of the study has found that more workload for the existing employees, inability to leave the duty on time, health issues, inadequate care for the patients, conflict and dispute among the coworkers, stress, inability to take decisions on time and inability to segregate biomedical wastes are the foremost impact of employee turnover on performance of existing employees.

Keywords


Nurse, Employee Turnover, Employee Performance, Multi Speciality Hospital, Tirunelveli City.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15410/aijm%2F2016%2Fv5i2%2F100694