Title: Retaining your best people.
Authors: Harvard Business School Press.
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Employee retention.; Personnel management; Labor turnover.
Abstract: This valuable guide offers insights and strategies to make sure your most important people stay motivated, happy, and productive--within your company. Engage your workers. Design appropriate incentive systems. Create an innovative culture. Managers are under increasing pressure to deliver better results, faster. But meeting today's tough challenges requires complete mastery of a full array of management skills, from communicating and coaching to public speaking and managing people.
Contents: Introduction -- Make retention a core strategy -- Why retention should become a core strategy now / Paul Michelman -- Aligning human capital with business strategy : perspectives from thought leaders / Cassandra A. Frangos -- Employee retention : what managers can do -- How to keep your company's star employees / Edward Prewitt -- Do people want to work for you? / Loren Gary -- Engage your workers -- Whose job is employee satisfaction? / Angelia Herrin -- How great managers manage people / Paul Michelman -- How to coach your employees / Martha Craumer -- Employee recognition and reward / With Bob Nelson -- Real empowerment? : manage the boundaries / Alan Randolph -- Match techniques to employee types -- Keys to retaining your best managers in a tight job market / Marie Gendron -- Why women leave--and what corporations can do about it / Kristen B. Donahue -- Managing the labor shortage: part 1 : how to keep your 50-somethings -- Managing the labor shortage: part 2 : finding--and keeping--good young employees -- Extract maximum value from employees -- Getting the best employee ideas / with Alan G. Robinson -- Honing strengths or shoring up weaknesses : which is more effective? / Melissa Raffoni -- When your best people leave, will their knowledge leave, too? / David Boath and David Y. Smith.