Employee Retention

Workers Want Their Bosses to Be Compassionate

According to a new study by Harvard University, fostering trust and a sense of purpose among employees can play a significant role in building a successful and productive workplace.
While business executives are, by nature, focused on maximizing profits for their companies, many experts believe that more attention should be paid to the welfare of their [...]

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Favoritism in the Workplace

If there is anything that all employees can usually agree upon, it is that favoritism in the workplace drives them all crazy. Favoritism in the workplace can have devastating effects on morale and productivity on the workforce.

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Reviving An Old Retention Strategy

Many companies have forgotten about this lost strategy when it comes to developing talent for their organizations. You may consider the idea of Internship Program. Many advantages, just to name a few:

Build a strong University relationship, one of you major suppliers of future talents.
Maintain a relationship with the good performing interns even after they’ve left [...]

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How Not To Attract and Retain High-Tech Employees

.Sprint has decided to impose a more ‘corporate’ dress code on all its employees. Read the article in the July 7th issue of The Kansas City Star at the URL below:
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/business.pat,business/3773abf3.707,.html
I don’t get it. First the high tech companies - such as Sprint - complain about not being about to attract and retain high-tech employees. [...]

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Employee Happiness, Sex, Productivity

I just saw this post on RecruitingBloggers.com about Happiness, Work, Sex, and Gender. There is typically more sex in the beginning stages of a new relationship between a “man and a woman.”  So will this mean that we should all give workplace romances a try and stop trying to prohibit them? Let the employees be their free [...]

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Layoffs at Jobster

I have been a big fan of Jason Goldberg, CEO of Jobster. I became an even bigger fan when he made those comments about Monster Worldwide and calling it a “crap product” and comparing the site to NASCAR. I could not have put it any better myself. His words have obviously had some effect on [...]

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Try This Method To Motivate Hourly Employees

If you have hourly employees, reward them for the extra effort. If you call them in on their day off, and they agree to come in, pay them time and a half, even if they have not worked 40 hours that week. Do the same thing if you ask employees to come in early and/or [...]

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