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ILR Impact Brief - Ownership Status Matters: Call Centers, Employment Systems, and Turnover

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"Each type of call center (i.e., ownership status) is associated with particular strategies and systems, which in turn influence quit rates. In-house call centers typically focus on service quality and adopt quasi-professional employment systems (higher pay, more opportunities for employee problem-solving, minimal performance monitoring). Cost control, by contrast, is the strategic driver of outsourced and offshore call centers, which favor low-commitment employment systems that depend on close monitoring and limited on-the-job discretion. Turnover, a major problem for the entire industry, is lowest at in-house call centers and highest at outsourced facilities."

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Impact Brief

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The ILR Impact Brief series highlights the research and project based work conducted by ILR faculty that is relevant to workplace issues and public policy. The Briefs are prepared by Maralyn Edid, Senior Extension Associate, ILR School.

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2006-03-01

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ownership; status; call center; employment; system; turnover; in-house; outsources; offshore; U.S.; customer; India; ownership

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For a more in-depth analysis, please see: Batt, R., Doellgast, V. & Kwon, H. (2005). Service management and employment systems in U.S. and Indian call centers. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS). CAHRS Working paper 05-12.

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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/77145

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