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Talent Management Best Practice 4 – Know Your Artificial Employment Retainers

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Every manager should seek to know the stay/leave propensity of his or her subordinates and certainly that of top performers. While true knowledge of others’ intentions is unknowable and unpredictable opportunities arise, there are artificial retention mechanisms and observable signs that together suggest an individual’s inclination.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

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’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’