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This 10 page paper discusses the high employee turnover in the nonprofit sector. The first section of the paper provides a basic introduction to nonprofit organizational structure and some of the challenges they face, including high turnover rates. The second section comments on the challenges and some reasons for high turnover, including a lack of long-term planning and a lack of effective human resource practices. The last section offers recommendations to reduce turnover. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Drucker has consistently commented that nonprofits are mismanaged and they seem to think that good intentions and money will solve the problems (The 2001 Leadership and Management Conference, 2001). Drucker
has also said that it is the nonprofit organizations that have been innovative in dealing with many different social problems, such as the struggle against drug and alcohol abuse (Drucker,
n.d.). Gendron asserted nonprofits "social entrepreneurs, not business entrepreneurs" (1996). Drucker approached this aspect in a different way, he commented that nonprofits are not at all easy to manage but
for some reason, people think they are (The 2001 Leadership and Management Conference, 2001). Nonprofits are typically founded by one person who has a vision he or she is passionate
about (Edwards, 2004). It may be this one person who continues to be the driving force for many years (Edwards, 2004). Just as within the private sector, nonprofits have boards
of directors and in recent years, there has been a call for board members to become more involved in the organization beyond fiduciary accountability (Schweitzer, 2004). One problem with greater
involvement has been boards trying to micromanage the organization (Schweitzer, 2004). Recent trends call for a greater focus on outcomes but boards involved in micromanaging only harm the organization (Schweitzer,
2004). One of the many challenges nonprofits face is a high turnover rate. The average annual employee turnover in nonprofit organizations is 24 percent (National Center for Charitable Statistics,
2003). That is a deceiving figure, however, because there is a vast difference between nonprofit subsectors (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2003). In child welfare agencies, for instance, annual "turnover
rates are often in the 100 to 300 percent range" (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2003). A 24 percent turnover rate represents an extraordinary number of employees leaving each year.
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