Recruitment and Retention
The problem of retention begins with recruitment! In most of the organizations the recruitment function operates independently of the retention department.
HR people have so far been naive to the direct relationship between the two and the resulting increase in employee turnover. It is therefore in the interest of organizations to understand how the hiring process impacts the employee turnover and devise strategies accordingly.
In recruitment Human resource department comes across a wide range of people who are different in terms of their psyche, their attitudes, beliefs and all other factors. It becomes difficult to judge what motivates whom.
Incentives may motivate a certain person but may be equally unimportant to some other. Money it has been observed is the prime motivator in most of the cases but it motivates only to a certain extent and fails afterwards. How does talent management deal with all this?
Can we have strategies in place that are almost universal in appeal or in other words can we design programs that motivate one and all? A universal solution may or may not be possible and may vary across organizations. But talent management has an answer i.e. look at the holistic picture - deal with whatever you have. We therefore have certain recruiting factors to take care of that impact retention. Here they are:
Apart from this there are practices like rewarding managers for less turnover, introducing diversity into the way employees are trained (training and development). All this falls in the ambit of talent management and is common in many good global corporations.
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