Abstract
No significant differences in work performance or verbal ability were found between psychiatric aides who stayed (n = 139) and those who voluntarily left (n = 41) during a 1-yr. follow-up of new hires The findings were important to the two hospitals involved in the study since voluntary leavers were not higher in performance or ability than those who stayed. While there were no differences between the two groups on age, sex, or education, lower turnover was found among black than among white aides. No consistent relation of performance to turnover was similar to that reported in recent literature. It is evident from the 1985 research of Wells and Muchinsky that a simple relation between performance and turnover may not exist but may be dependent upon specific organizational practices of rewarding performance and external market conditions.
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