Innovative work practices and labour turnover in Canada

by René Morissette and Julio Miguel Rosa
Business and Labour Market Analysis, August 2003
The evolving workplace series, no. 7

This study finds only moderate support for the notion that innovative work practices (such as teamwork, job rotation and profit-sharing) reduce employee turnover. It finds almost no evidence that such innovative work practices reduce employee turnover in the Manufacturing sector. However, it shows that establishments in the Services sector that employ a highly skilled workforce and use some innovative work practices, do retain a greater proportion of their employees than other sectors.

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