Finding and Keeping Great Employees
One of the biggest problems that most companies face is getting
talented employees and more importantly, to retain them for
keeps. The common and mistaken belief is that luring and
pampering them with money and heavy bonuses as the prime bait
for retaining them. Authors Jim Harris and Joan Brannick
underline the need to go beyond the material into finding the
source of employee aspirations and goals and forging them with
the company's strategic visions and goals. The book urges
emphatically on the need to first develop the appropriate
organizational culture that is strongly rooted in customer
service, innovation, operational excellence and team spirit.
Successful recruitment and retention would then involve aligning
organizational culture with the employees' needs and desires and
helping employees to realize and optimize their fullest
potential. The book outlines the eight recruitment and retention
strategies in detail that organizations can observe in enlisting
right candidates for the right job. The book equally stresses on
the need for gaining employees' inputs on various staffing
practices and to maintain new initiatives so the company can
incorporate and fine tune them effectively within the overall
corporate philosophy. The authors also reiterate the absolute
necessity to ensure proper alignment by reviewing company core
culture and employment practices and connect them with the
employees' basic needs. The book thus underscores the need for
getting quality employees, and ensuring their long term
retention by securing their trust and commitment. Not just HR
professionals and head hunters, even entrepreneurs and business
professionals, will find the book of immense benefit. Equally,
even the work force can read this book to know some of the
recruitment strategies and be aware of what to look for in a
job.