Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the practice of demotion. This study aims to do so in two ways: first, by investigating Belgian HR professionals’ key motives for practicing and not practicing demotion and second, by examining the reasons why HR professionals...

Purpose: The main goal of employee retention is to prevent competent employees from leaving the company. When analysing the main reasons why employees leave and determining their turnover probability, the question arises: Which retention strategies have an actual effect on turnover and for...

Purpose: This paper aims to question whether the available data in the human resources (HR) system could result in reliable turnover predictions without supplementary survey information. Design/methodology/approach: A decision tree approach and a logistic regression model for analysing turnover...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the occurrence of job level, salary and job authority demotions in the workplace through the analysis of Belgian Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC)-data of 2007-2011. Design/methodology/approach Three hypotheses are tested: H1 :...

This article studies the relationships of different strategic human resource alignment mechanisms and firms productivity, by using data on 610 Belgian medium-sized and large enterprises. The results show that efforts to achieve a fit between strategic objectives and human resource practices are...

In modeling manpower systems, it is of crucial importance to deal with heterogeneity. Until recently, manpower models are dealing with heterogeneity due to observable sources, neglecting heterogeneity due to latent sources. In this paper a two-step procedure is introduced. In the first step...

Quantitative decision support on personnel planning is often restricted to either rostering or staffing. There exist some approaches in which aspects at the staffing level and the rostering level are treated in a sequential way. Obviously, such practice risks producing suboptimal solutions at...