Retaining Valued Employees

How do you keep valuable employees from leaving? With employee turnover at a ten-year high in the tightest labor market in recent memory, human resource professionals face this challenge daily. This book briefly summarizes the current research in the area of employee turnover and provides practical guidelines to implement proven strategies for reducing unwanted turnover. Topics covered include differentiating between functional and dysfunctional turnover, job enrichment, employee selection, orientation programs, compensation practices, easing conflicts between work and home, social integration, and managing exiting employees. Separate chapters are devoted to using employee surveys to predict turnover and diagnose turnover causes and reducin

List of contents

How Turnover Can Be Costly to Organizations
Job Enrichment
Realistic Job Previews
Socialization and Supervision
Employee Selection
Using Employee Surveys to Predict and Diagnose Turnover Causes
Compensation and Rewards
Reducing Turnover among Special Groups: Minorities and Women
Managing Exiting Employees
Appendix: Sample Employee Surveys

Summary

How do you keep valuable employees from leaving? With employee turnover at a ten-year high in the tightest labor market in recent memory, human resource professionals face this challenge daily. This book briefly summarizes the current research in the area of employee turnover and provides practical guidelines to implement proven strategies for reducing unwanted turnover. Topics covered include differentiating between functional and dysfunctional turnover, job enrichment, employee selection, orientation programs, compensation practices, easing conflicts between work and home, social integration, and managing exiting employees. Separate chapters are devoted to using employee surveys to predict turnover and diagnose turnover causes and reducin

Product details

• Authors: Rodger W. Griffeth, Peter W. Hom
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2001
• EAN: 9780761913054
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1305-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 577 g
• Series: Advanced Topics in Organizational Behavior; Advanced Topics in Organizatio; Advanced Topics in Organizatio; Advanced Topics in Organizational Behavior
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Organisationspsychologie, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management, Business / Economics / Finance