Effects of Innovative Motivational Strategies and New Staffing Model on Interviewer Attrition: A Data Collection Year in Review

Due to high staff attrition and its negative effects on data collection and project cost, a large national study implemented motivational strategies and a new staffing model for the current data collection year. Motivational strategies included retention bonuses, organization gear, and other personalized recognitions. The new staffing model included both a change in weekly hour requirements as well as the number of interviewers staffed in each area. New staff, committed to 20 hours per week, were added to approximately half of the sampling areas with already existing 30 hour per week staff. Two Interviewers were now working a single area, as opposed to one interviewer per area. If one Interviewer were to become inactive, there would be one remaining Interviewer. The initial effects of these motivational strategies and new staffing model on key production indicators as well as project budget, interviewer attrition, performance, morale, have been positive. One initial effect has been a slower rate of attrition. The overall impact of these motivational innovations and new staffing model on key data collection indicators will continue to be monitored and evaluated, and will be discussed

Effects of Innovative Motivational Strategies and New Staffing Model on Interviewer Attrition: A Data Collection Year in Review

Due to high staff attrition and its negative effects on data collection and project cost, a large national study implemented motivational strategies and a new staffing model for the current data collection year. Motivational strategies included retention bonuses, organization gear, and other personalized recognitions. The new staffing model included both a change in weekly hour requirements as well as the number of interviewers staffed in each area. New staff, committed to 20 hours per week, were added to approximately half of the sampling areas with already existing 30 hour per week staff. Two Interviewers were now working a single area, as opposed to one interviewer per area. If one Interviewer were to become inactive, there would be one remaining Interviewer. The initial effects of these motivational strategies and new staffing model on key production indicators as well as project budget, interviewer attrition, performance, morale, have been positive. One initial effect has been a slower rate of attrition. The overall impact of these motivational innovations and new staffing model on key data collection indicators will continue to be monitored and evaluated, and will be discussed

A escolha da escola privada em famílias dos grupos popularesI

Este estudo procurou investigar a chegada de escolas privadas em um distrito da zona leste de São Paulo, com base no tratamento secundário de dados estatísticos, questionários aplicados em escolas públicas e privadas e entrevistas com pais, professores e jovens do distrito. A hipótese formulada inicialmente propunha que as modificações da oferta escolar local seriam reveladoras do processo de diferenciação interna dos grupos populares, derivado do aumento da renda na base da pirâmide social brasileira dos anos Lula. Os resultados do estudo estatístico permitiram propor uma tipologia das subprefeituras segundo a oferta escolar. As entrevistas revelaram um lento processo de acumulação de capital cultural e de modificações do estilo de vida, ligados à conquista do diploma de ensino superior pela segunda geração das famílias interrogadas. Essa fração das camadas populares, na qual o capital cultural é mais elevado compõe essencialmente a demanda por ensino privado no distrito. A partir do caso particular desse distrito, o artigo aborda as características da oferta e das estratégias educativas identificadas nesse grupo reduzido de famílias, um processo ligado tanto à aquisição do capital cultural em duas gerações das famílias como ao trabalho feminino.This study aimed to investigate the arrival of private schools in a district in the east side of Sao Paulo and it is based on secondary treatment of statistical data, questionnaires applied in public and private schools, and interviews with parents, teachers, and youngsters in the district. The initial hypothesis proposed that the modification on local school offer would reveal the process of internal differentiation of low-income groups, derived from the increase of income on the base of Brazilian social pyramid during Lula’s government. The results of the statistical study allowed us to propose a typology of subprefectures according to school offer. The interviews revealed a slow process of cultural capital accumulation and lifestyle modifications, connected to the university diplomas owned by the second generation of interviewed families. This fraction of low-income classes, in which cultural capital is higher, essentially composes the demand for private education in the district. On the particular case of this district, the article approaches the characteristics of offer and educational strategies identified in this reduced group of families, a process connected to the acquisition of cultural capital during two generations, as well as to women’s work