Keeping Your Valuable Employees: Retention Strategies for Your Organization's Most Important Resource [Hardcover]

Suzanne Dibble (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 23, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0471320536 | ISBN-13: 978-0471320531 | Edition: 1

The Essential Guide to the Most Crucial Challenge Facing Twenty-First Century Human Resources Management "This book offers a practical, realistic approach to keeping the best employees. It draws on good theory and offers excellent advice." --Dave Ulrich, Professor of Business, University of Michigan, and coauthor of Organizational Capability "Business owners who agonize over attracting and retaining employees will find a wealth of information. Suzanne understands how to apply today's best ideas in human resources management to businesses large and small." --E. Jill Pollock, President, Pollock Consulting Group, Inc., and Chair, Small Business Association of Michigan "A two-year Gallup study found that companies with a positive workforce reported higher profits, productivity, and lower turnover. Every organization would like these results. Suzanne shares her human resources experience and provides hands-on tools for retaining those people who are key to an organization's success. It is an easy-to-read, practical guide for working with today's and tomorrow's employees." --Hunter A. Pickens, President, The Pickens Group, Ltd.

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From the Inside Flap

Keeping Your Valuable Employees In today’s business world, companies face fierce, unrelenting competition for their most valued employees. As the one responsible for finding and retaining the people who drive your company’s success, you depend on your ability to develop innovative ways to keep those employees happy, motivated, and productive. But when job security is no longer the carrot, and employees possess nearly unlimited bargaining power, how do you perform such a tough assignment? This book focuses exclusively on this critical issue. Based on author Suzanne Dibble’s extensive research and firsthand experience developing employee recruitment and retention programs for companies nationwide, Keeping Your Valuable Employees arms you with the knowledge and tools you need to plot a course through the turbulent waters of the new employment relationship. Taking a systematic approach, Dibble provides a compellingly astute vision of the twenty-first century employment paradigm and develops a framework for understanding how it applies to your situation. With the help of case studies recounting innovative recruitment and retention initiatives now underway at several leading North American companies, she describes cutting-edge strategies, tools, and techniques for hiring and retaining valued employees. Dibble also provides clear guidelines for combining these methods in a comprehensive plan tailored to your company’s unique culture and goals. Crucial topics covered include:

• Recruitment and how to become an employer of choice
• Salary, benefits, recognition, and career development
• Work environment and policies
• Performance management
• Counteroffers
• Exit interviews

Addressing one of the most crucial challenges to twenty-first century human resources management, Keeping Your Valuable Employees is the professional resource you cannot afford to be without.

From the Back Cover

The Essential Guide to the Most Crucial Challenge Facing Twenty-First Century Human Resources Management "This book offers a practical, realistic approach to keeping the best employees. It draws on good theory and offers excellent advice." —Dave Ulrich, Professor of Business, University of Michigan, and coauthor of Organizational Capability "Business owners who agonize over attracting and retaining employees will find a wealth of information. Suzanne understands how to apply today’s best ideas in human resources management to businesses large and small." —E. Jill Pollock, President, Pollock Consulting Group, Inc., and Chair, Small Business Association of Michigan "A two-year Gallup study found that companies with a positive workforce reported higher profits, productivity, and lower turnover. Every organization would like these results. Suzanne shares her human resources experience and provides hands-on tools for retaining those people who are key to an organization’s success. It is an easy-to-read, practical guide for working with today’s and tomorrow’s employees." —Hunter A. Pickens, President, The Pickens Group, Ltd.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 284 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (September 23, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471320536
• ISBN-13: 978-0471320531
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,078,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Systematic, Realistic Retention, September 3, 2000

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This review is from: Keeping Your Valuable Employees: Retention Strategies for Your Organization's Most Important Resource (Hardcover)

I liked the fact that this book took a systematic approach to examining retention. The approach examines everything from job descriptions to counteroffers. It really forced me to develop a comprehensive retention strategy. I particularly enjoyed Part III of the book that focuses on Develoment and Career Opportunity, Let's Talk about Money, and Performance Management.

The book also includes an interesting survey that was completed by 457 respondents. However, 75% of the respondents were also in school, which makes me wonder about the validty and relaibity of the resutls on a "typical" organizaiotn. Interesting concept for an author to utilize.