Keeping Your Valuable Employees

Keeping Your Valuable Employees In today¿s business world, companies face fierce, unrelenting competition for their most valued employees. As the one responsible for finding and retaining the people who drive your company¿s success, you depend on your ability to develop innovative ways to keep those employees happy, motivated, and productive. But when job security is no longer the carrot, and employees possess nearly unlimited bargaining power, how do you perform such a tough assignment? This book focuses exclusively on this critical issue. Based on author Suzanne Dibble¿s extensive research and firsthand experience developing employee recruitment and retention programs for companies nationwide, Keeping Your Valuable Employees arms you with the knowledge and tools you need to plot a course through the turbulent waters of the new employment relationship. Taking a systematic approach, Dibble provides a compellingly astute vision of the twenty first century employment paradigm and develops a framework for understanding how it applies to your situation. With the help of case studies recounting innovative recruitment and retention initiatives now underway at several leading North American companies, she describes cutting edge strategies, tools, and techniques for hiring and retaining valued employees. Dibble also provides clear guidelines for combining these methods in a comprehensive plan tailored to your company¿s unique culture and goals. Crucial topics covered include:Recruitment and how to become an employer of choiceSalary, benefits, recognition, and career developmentWork environment and policiesPerformance managementCounteroffersExit interviewsAddressing one of the most crucial challenges to twenty first century human resources management, Keeping Your Valuable Employees is the professional resource you cannot afford to be without.