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nert You Manage It! 1: Global 6-12. Employees have been terminated due to their postings on soci be a cause for termination? Are there circumstances that might make terminatio For example, what if the postings are critical of the company? Describe. 6-13. Can employee turnover be a good thing? Explain. When is employee turnover a bad thing? 6.14. Survivors of layoffs might be considered the lucky ones who still have a job. However, layoff survivors can presenta number of problems. What kind of problems might you expect layoff survivors to exhibit? Assuming a layoff of workers is a necessity, what would you recommend be done to lessen problems associated with layoff survivors? 6-16. Do you think the voluntary tumover rate in an area should be considered before opening a business open 6-17. If your company is opening up an operation in another country where voluntary turnover is high, how could problem be reduced? Specifically, rather than hiring back talent, talent could be shifted from the home operation the business. What are the advantages and disadvantage 6-18. As a team, identify the steps you could take as a Turnover: A Global Management Issue As discussed in the Manager's Notebook, "Voluntary Turnover in there? Why? China," voluntary turnover is a problem faced by organizations in China. This turnover is particularly a problem in management- level positions and in areas such as sales, marketing and human re sources. The issue is expected to continue, even though the growth in the Chinese economy may be slowing. Facing voluntary turnover is a problem in more areas than this approach? China. For example, companies in India face high levels of volun- tary turnover. The common element to the level of voluntary tum Team Exercise over is a demand for labor that exceeds the supply. The demand creates job opportunities for the too-few employees who have the desired competencies. Critical Thinking Questions 6-15. What steps do most companies take to reduce voluntary tumover? Are they effective? you could take? to reduce the problem of high voluntary turnover you in an overseas operation. For example, you could use is mestic workers for the operation of you could increase wage rate offered in your forcis operation. What are te advantages and disadvantages of these and other action 199 CHAPTER 6. MANAGING EMPLOYEE SEPARATIONS, DOWNSIZING, AND OUTPLACEMENT Experiential Exercise: Team yourself on the market, fighting to replace the talent that just left. A high-voluntary tumover problem also usually b.18 As an old saving goes, you can't manage something if you can't measure it in the case of voluntary tumover, you means difficulty in finding and hiring replacements may be able to measure the level of turnover, but you need a. An alternative to trying to hire scarce talent is to grow berter measurement than that if you are to effectively man your own. That is an organization may decide to pro age voluntary turnover. It could be useful, for example, to vide training and development opportunities to current have a sense of why people are choosing to quit. Is it, for workers in order to development needed talent. What instance, just about getting a bigbet paying job somewhere are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach? else, or are other factors involved? 1. Do you think internal development of talent would As a team, what measures regarding voluntary turnover also have an effect on voluntary tumover? Why? What would you suggest? How would you collect the informa would be the downside? tion? How would this information be useful to managing c. Do you know of or can you locate any companies that focus the problem of voluntary turnover? on internal development? Does it seem to be effective? Share your conclusions and findings with the rest of the class Experiential Exercise: Individual Source: Based on Huang, J. (2013). Developing local talent for future leader 0.0 Where there is high voluntary turnover, managers often ship. The Chine Business Review, 40,28-30. Sanchez Arias, F. Calmeyn, H. face difficulty in finding replacement workers. If you Driesen, G. and Pruis, E. (2013). Human capital realities pose challenges are a manager in a high-voluntary turnover situation and across the globe. T&D, 67, 32-35; Silva, J. D. (2012). The war for tal- one of your workers decides to leave, you will likely find ent in China, ey Business Journal Online, retrieved on June 9, 2013 from Proquest. I You Manage It! 2: Ethics/Social Responsibility Employment-at-Will: Fair Policy? an employee, you have the right to quit your job, right? The icy of employment-at-will (see Chapter 14) gives a similar right 6-23. Most workers are not covered by explicit or implicit con- tracts and are at-will employees. Thus, an employer should be able to terminate these workers at any time and for