La Quinta Corporation.
Since the program was established in 2001, La Quinta franchising has set the highest standards for excellence. Earlier this year, the newly built Galveston, Texas, hotel, representing the 100th franchised property for the brand, helped La Quinta mark a significant milestone in its rapidly growing franchising program. La Quinta-franchised...

Nurse working conditions, organizational climate, and intent to leave in ICUs: an instrumental variable approach.
High turnover has been recognized as a problem in many service industries including health care (Mor Barak et al. 2001). Although it is important to note that turnover, in and of itself, is not necessarily bad, there are inevitably costs experienced by organizations that lose workers. In U.S. hospitals,...

Green buildings save money -- and the planet.
Byline: Larry Banks and Tobias Barwood For The Register-Guard On April 12, more than 120 architects, engineers and developers from around the state met in Salem to show support for Senate Bill 576. That bill would require state-funded construction projects to meet a high level of energy-efficient...

Tech professionals require motivational management.
DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION have a proactive employee retention strategy? Do you offer competitive compensation, performance-based incentives and quality of life benefits? Does your HR department solicit employee feedback and strive to make your firm "a great place to work?" That's all well and good. But it's not...

Creativity, communication help employee retention.
NATIONAL REPORT -- Whether implementing an employee program or utilizing surveys to improve retention, hotel managers must find avenues that are creative and personal. When renovation plans closed a good portion of the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa in Ojai, Calif., management got creative to keep the...

Training, rewards help convince workers to stay.
Much like the hotel industry, the timeshare business wrestles with employee turnover. Developers say a strong training program, incentives and opportunities for internal growth are powerful tools that foster an environment that will attract and retain talented employees. Susan Milanese, vice president and director of human resources...

Behind the numbers.
Byline: The Register-Guard CORRECTION (ran 2/15/02): An editorial in the Feb. 8 Register-Guard misstated the average wages paid to direct-care workers who support the developmentally disabled. The statewide average is $9.30 an hour. The figure cited in the editorial is the average pay for direct-care workers in...

Going beyond what's mandated to invest in staff.
Organizations that offer addiction treatment services must deal with multiple, overlapping requirements to provide initial and ongoing training to their employees. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), CARF, state regulatory agencies and managed care payers all require specific training to ensure staff competence to provide treatment...

Become a better manager and boost staff retention.
IT'S HARD TO FIND good employees ... and expensive to lose them. HR experts estimate that replacing an employee costs two to seven times that individual's annual salary, and in the chemical industry, top talent can be even more expensive to replace. So what can you do...

Sneak attack? `Readiness schools' could set back charter schools.
COLUMN: In our opinion On the face of it, Gov. Deval L. Patrick's Readiness Project is a sweeping and in some ways promising blueprint for taking education reform to the next level. However, any good it might do would be more than negated if the project becomes...