Retention Strategies for Epidemiologists in Taiwan

Recently, emerging new infections such as SARS or §bird flu have placed significant stress on §epidemiologists, leading to high intent to change §career. Based on possible staff shortages, §retention strategies for epidemiologists have gained §importance.From the resource-based view, this §book examines how human resource capital (HRC) and §motivation systems (MS) influence the relationship §between stress and intent to say. §The book concluded that occupational/psychological §stress, HRC, and MS had an impact on §epidemiologists intent to stay. HRC and MS §function well as moderators on the relationship §between stress and intent to stay. To §epidemiologists in different institutions, HRC and §MS may have different moderating effects.§The SARS epidemic has raised worldwide attention. §Managers should enhance HRC and MS to attenuate §epidemiologists stress, which may, in turn, §strengthen their intent to stay. The book, §therefore, should help shed light on present §emerging infection environment, and should be §especially useful to professionals and managers in §epidemiology fields, or anyone who are interested in §research on epidemiology or management.