The Art and Science of Employee Retention: It Can Be Learned
29 December 2009
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A compensation policy alone is insufficient to lead to employee fulfillment within a company; therefore, it is essential to implement a range of retention tools and a high-performing action plan to retain talent…
Fostering a Positive Atmosphere
The company must therefore ensure a positive work environment and develop relationships of mutual support, sharing, and open communication… This approach involves organizing team-building activities: meetings, shared meals, seminars, internal training, experience sharing… It can be enough to be attentive to the expectations and needs of employees and allow them to communicate freely about their desires by providing a simple suggestion box…
Empowering Employees
For employees to thrive, they need some leeway, a space where they feel they have a degree of freedom and the trust of their manager.
The manager should only intervene during checkpoints, previously determined in a schedule.
Involving Employees in New Projects
Routine work tends to lower the motivation level of a team. This is why the company must know how to launch innovative or challenging projects from time to time. However, be careful not to overdo it by stringing together challenges. This could ultimately lead employees to focus only on challenging projects and neglect the more tedious, fundamental tasks that are also important.
Finally, communication is the foundation of any strategy to motivate and retain employees. It helps develop a sense of belonging, promote adherence to the company's policies, and establish a lasting relationship between employees and management and among employees themselves… This communication culture must be upward, downward, or lateral, and all channels can be explored, whether formal or informal.
And improving working conditions yields results, it's proven… So think about it… for the well-being of individuals and the company itself.
The Team ReKrute.com
Fostering a Positive Atmosphere
The company must therefore ensure a positive work environment and develop relationships of mutual support, sharing, and open communication… This approach involves organizing team-building activities: meetings, shared meals, seminars, internal training, experience sharing… It can be enough to be attentive to the expectations and needs of employees and allow them to communicate freely about their desires by providing a simple suggestion box…
Empowering Employees
For employees to thrive, they need some leeway, a space where they feel they have a degree of freedom and the trust of their manager.
The manager should only intervene during checkpoints, previously determined in a schedule.
Involving Employees in New Projects
Routine work tends to lower the motivation level of a team. This is why the company must know how to launch innovative or challenging projects from time to time. However, be careful not to overdo it by stringing together challenges. This could ultimately lead employees to focus only on challenging projects and neglect the more tedious, fundamental tasks that are also important.
Finally, communication is the foundation of any strategy to motivate and retain employees. It helps develop a sense of belonging, promote adherence to the company's policies, and establish a lasting relationship between employees and management and among employees themselves… This communication culture must be upward, downward, or lateral, and all channels can be explored, whether formal or informal.
And improving working conditions yields results, it's proven… So think about it… for the well-being of individuals and the company itself.
The Team ReKrute.com
