Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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 educational environment is more attractive, more relaxed, open and informal than industry," Wickenden says. Cantor points out that once employees have stayed at Harvard more than three years, "the turnover rate is almost invisible." Who knows, maybe they want that Harvard chair...
...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 high turnover, since the K-School had moved from Littauer Center to a new building. "Any organization that goes through rapid change almost inevitably experiences a fall-out. When the observatory lost the NASA program we had a whacking turnover rate. We all felt bad about it, but it happens. There...
...arguments this time won't be that different. Though Letteri acknowledges that morale among the officers has definitely improved, he says he would like to see ten more patrolmen hired to take some of the increasing workload off the existing force and to help fight the growing crime rate...
...with the department's efforts to implement the Howland report recommendations, the union is left to concentrate on higher wages and better benefits in the upcoming contract negotiations. Despite the police budget of over $2 million, the administration will undoubtedly consider a wage hike that even approximates the rate of inflation unthinkable. As Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, says, "We're all in a tough position. Inflation is hitting all of us and our resources are just not increasing...