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“I Quit”: Why Employees Quit and How to Retain Them

HR Digest

The most skilled and experienced employees are in constant pursuit of a good career. A high attrition rate is a costly challenge for any business. While sizeable pay packages and bombastic job titles do account for many resignation emails , so do reasons such as stingy benefits and changing career goals. No career growth.

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How Should Leaders Address Challenge Of Low Performers?

Tanveer Naseer

However, according to data from the Eagle Hill National Attrition Survey , low performers can have significantly negative effects on an organization. Low performers in management roles contribute to attrition among high performers. These workers leave for a variety of reasons, including limited career growth and pay.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Technology has exploded, giving us instant access to information and knowledge, and it all moves and changes so fast that some of what Boomers have learned during their careers may be obsolete. How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future? Who will do this work?

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How We Closed the Gap Between Men’s and Women’s Retention Rates

Harvard Business Review

Management consulting is a challenging environment in which to cultivate apprenticeship, because staff regularly jump from project to project and manager to manager. As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks.

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Planning Maternity or Paternity Leave: A Professional’s Guide

Harvard Business Review

Very few organizations have “a standard operating procedure” for employees taking parental time off, says Joan C. “It’s very common to come back from leave with either no work or an overwhelming amount of work — both of these are undesirable and a recipe for high attrition.” What the Experts Say.

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Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better

Harvard Business Review

But increasingly, what companies sell are projects. Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard. And that is just one type of project.