Synopsis
"I would certainly recommend this book to any leader with the desire and need to reduce turnover and improve employee satisfaction and performance levels. Managing Employee Retention is a simple to follow and easy to implement strategy to guide any company toward becoming an employer of choice."
- Harry Bond, President, Monical Pizza Corporation
"A comprehensive and valuable resource for all managers and HR professionals who want to retain critical talent in their organizations. This book provides applied techniques for analyzing retention issues, calculating costs of attrition and creating effective retention solutions."
- Tamar Elkeles, Vice President, Learning and Development, QUALCOMM, Inc.
"Phillips and Connell give the hungry reader great food for action to finally tackle the employee retention problem. If you're serious about managing employee retention, this book gives you both the "how to" and the "rationale" you need for success."
- Pat Crull, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, Toys "R" Us
"Finally a complete Why, What and How-To source for managing your most important asset - your Employees! Managing Employee Retention is the complete reference book for implementing a strategic approach to attracting, hiring, and keeping the right people for your organization. This is a must-read if you want to avoid future retention crisis."
- Rita Bailey, CEO, QVF Partners Ltd.
'Managing Employee Retention' is a practical guide for managers to retain their talented employees. It shows how to manage and monitor turnover and how to develop the ROI of keeping your talent using innovative retention programs. The book presents a logical process for managing retention, from identifying turnover costs and causes, designing solutions that match the causes of turnover, developing tools for tracking turnover and placing alerts when action is needed, to measuring the ROI of retention programs.
During the past decade, employee turnover has become a very serious problem for organizations. Managing retention and keeping the turnover rate below target and industry norms is one of the most challenging business issues. All indications point toward the issue compounding in the future. Even as economic times change, turnover will continue to be an important issue for most job groups. Yet despite these facts employee turnover continues to be the most unappreciated and undervalued issue facing business leaders.