HR Strategies to Improve Retention of Supervisors

The purpose of the proposed study will be to identify human resource strategies that will enable manufacturing organizations to improve retention rates of first-line supervisors. In the pursuit of this objective, major causes of turnover among first-level supervisors will be identified.

The research setting for the proposed study will be a manufacturing organization, which for purposes of the proposed study will be referred to as Company XYZ to protect the proprietary interests of the firm. This firm employs 65 first-line supervisors in a three-shift production operation. The rate of turnover among the firm's first-line supervisors has been at undesirably high levels for the past three years, and there are no signs indicating that the situation is likely to improve in the foreseeable future. The company has not applied consistent human resource policy in relation to the first-level supervisors, and this practice likely has exacerbated job satisfaction problems among the first-level supervis

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eriods of boredom, or fatigue stemming from boredom. Job underload was found to create higher levels of anxiety, depression, and physical illness than did job overload. Alienation Alienation has also been related to the development of occupational stress (Garfield, 1995, p. 96). Alienation with respect to occupational stress is defined as "an objective social situation that exists independent of its recognition by those in that situation" (p. 96). Such a definition of a stressor means that it could have an impact, whether or not its presence in the environment was perceived by those individuals working in that environment. The definition also infers that stress-creating events or situations may be viewed as being inherent in specific occupations or tasks. Further, the definition infers that stress outcomes may not be always controllable by individuals exposed to stressors. Ramaswami, Angarwal, and Bhargava (1993, pp. 179-193) found that role ambiguity and role conflict was major antecedents of alienation. Formalization, job codification, and rule observation also were found to contribute to alienation. Job "Burn-Out" and Job Satisfaction A concept closely associated with occupational stress is job "burn-out" (Lee & As
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