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why is labour turnover high in the hospitality industry in the uk and what can be done to reduce it?

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High Labour Turnover in the Hospitality Industry in the UK

The hospitality industry depends on manpower for its survival and a shortage of which would be a great challenge to tourism and hospitality industries . The competitive nature of the hospitality industry results to continuous restructuring of career progression prospects so as to match the industry growth with the talent and service levels through monetary and non-monetary reward structures . A healthy labour turnover is associated with the fresh blood argument , skills development and

labour market regeneration . Labour turnover is the total number of labour force leavers expressed as a percentage of the total number of employees in a department or industry (Hoques , 2000 , 9 . When employees leave their jobs before staying for more than one year , then a high turnover is attained . This state can be attained by ensuring job satisfaction , career development , commitment and training good pay conditions lack of which will cause labour turnover

In the UK , the hospitality industries are subjected to high labour turnover and this can be related to various causes due to poor employers ' practices . The management of these hospitality industries are to blame for their style of management and their competencies . The policies employed by most managers in these industries do contribute to the high turnover due to the temporary nature of many hospitality workers (Boella Turner , 2005 , 12 . This has led the industries to incur great unnecessary costs which could otherwise be avoided and provision of poor quality...

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