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At the Ed School, where grants make up almost half the operating budget, Wickenden says the support staff's annual turnover rate is between 25 and 40 per cent. But almost 70 per cent of the people leaving do so because they want to return to school, often to the...
"If you removed quits because of a spouse returning to school a safe bet would be that there would be a 15-to-20 per cent turnover here," Cantor says. He points to an 18-per-cent turnover rate in most industries as a fairly stable norm.
But turnover is affected by employees morale, too, and morale continually flows and ebbs, Cantor says. "It's not as if you'd go along with a stable temperature of 98.6 and then hit a fever plateau. Morale is always changing," he says. A recessed economy or student demonstrations such...
One glance at the turnover rates would make it appear that the University is losing a lot of its employees. And quite a few people who begin working here are not happy. But Cantor points out that the majority are indeed satisfied working for academia. "Most feel working in an...
The K-School had also had a turnover rate of 61 per cent in the school year 1977-78, when 27 of its 44 clerical and technical staff left. Its rate returned to about the University average of one-third last year. Cantor says he is not surprised by the...