pouring into China, Russia, and India has created tremendous opportunities and competition for talented IT professionals in those countries. The downside of this increased competition directly raise the rate of attrition, particularly in India.
Concept of Attrition: In various industries in various sector have only one impact, loss to the organization. Pharmaceutical, hospitality, BPO,IT,ITES,KPO, insurance, manufacturing, automobile, education industry etc. are the common industries which function on talent and knoweldge based employees for the progress of their organization growth. Training the skillset according to the needs of the industry upliftment is additional investment on the employees, further retaining them is another challenge, managing the employees in the relevant skillset has to be monitored with special care and attention. Periodically review and discussions with the employees will raise a better platform for understanding the attitude amongst the employees. The thought of discomfort to any employees have to be personally attended for understanding the depth of their problem. So far software sector faced 15% to 20% attrition rate and the conservative estimates increases the attrition to 35-40 percent. In case of Insurance companies, where there are benefits of building huge networking, the job pressure is equally huge. Also, there is humpty number of competitors where poaching is done spasmodically. Hence Attrition irrespective of industry is a global
On the other hand, the success of the company is in large part due to the hard work of the staff who would lose their employment. In addition, it must be determined who would perform the work of the dismissed employees and if the company would be able to function without them. Moreover, the morale and productivity
At a time when many companies experience a difficult economic situation, they have to cut costs by laying off workers, and worse if your employees decided to leave for other competitors. Losing a talented worker is costly and to replace your top employee’s knowledge, experience and customer relationships is not something as simple as ones might think. So why do good employees quit? Even with high wages or great benefit, employees can still depart from the company if they do not get along well with their managers. So in order to keep good employees on board, the managers play an important role in knowing and matching their workers’ needs. In what follows, I going to analyze the case study: “Why are we losing all our good people?” which is about a fictional firm called “Sambian Partners”; what's really the reasons that is driving talented people out of the company and offering some solution to help Sambian stop the talent drain.
Retaining employees is one way the turnover rate can decrease, Branham (2000), focuses on retaining valuable employees by incorporating four key elements. The first key elements is, “be a company that people want to work for”. There are many companies that have been labeled as, “employers of choice”. These employers all have something in common, which is how they value their employers (Branham, 2000). They treat their employees with respect and like family. With being an “employer of choice,” people are the most valuable asset; not just customers but employees too. Many companies go above and beyond for their customers, but not for their employees, yet they wonder why they are losing valuable talent.
In this paper Team C has discussed the issue of poor employee retention concluding in a high employee turnover rate. This is an issue that can be common among some companies and that is a great example of
All businesses at one time or another will have to deal with employee layoffs due to a re-organization or changes in the economy. Employee layoffs can have a damaging impact to the remaining employee and management staff. There are several solutions that can be done to alleviate the negative impact and the recommendation is to provide managers with the proper training on how to properly handle a layoff so there is a more positive impact on the remaining staff. Proper training prepares managers for
“Today, Indian outsourcing is one of the best ways for CIOs to cut application development and maintenance costs, and deal effectively with the peaks and valleys of software demands.” (Yeo). Outsourcing to India is still focused primarily on highly technological aspects, but is not limited there. They are known for creative development in the pharmaceutical field, and have recently developed an unsurpassed medication for adult ADHD. Their superior IT assistance is not limited to companies, they offer many websites for individuals seeking help with programming. In mid 2007, U.S. outsourcing to India reached $4.9 billion. Although technologically advanced, they still lag in economic prosperity and therefore still don’t expect the type of compensation that Americans do. “They
All over the globe retaining employees is a most critical factor for the organisations. High employee turnover is more common in private sector as compared to public. In construction industry, to reduce employee turnover and to improve the productivity of an organisation, organisations have to be aware of the reasons why an employees quit the organisation?. Employee turnover can be explained as the expenses, in term of money, time, and quality of work, that an organisation bear while replacing an employee. If an organisation fails to satisfy the needs of its employees then it is obvious that the employees will look forward to fulfill their necessities. This chapter discuss the reasons why employees quit their jobs.
During the recent past however, when the company became a more dominant global competitor and a publicly traded conglomerate, the numbers of employees leaving the firm have increased, generating adjacent problems of employee recruitment, training and retention. In other words, the major challenges currently faced by the company are related to talent management. At a more specific level, the issues refer to the following:
a good employer. Hence the employee retention rate is very low. The purpose of this report is to propose a
Workforce turnover is a complex and important issue amongst today's organisations. It is perhaps one of the most often cited cause of increased cost and decreased productivity. No wonder people management has become an important frontier to extract and create more value from company assets. On comprehending the articles, it has become evident that organisations have moved beyond the traditional approach of only investing in core business activities, to invest in employee retention strategies. Many organisations, for example St. George Bank
Employee retention has always been an important focus for human resource managers. Once a company has invested time and money to recruit and train a good employee, it is in their own best interest to retain that employee, to further develop and motivate him so that he continues to provide value to the organization. But, employers must also recognize and tend to what is in the best interest of their employees, if they intend to keep them. When a company overlooks the needs of its employees and focuses only on the needs of the organization, turnover often results. Excessive turnover in an organization is a prime indicator that something is not right in the employee environment. We will look at
A critical factor to the success of any company is its ability to attract top talent while retaining those already working within the company. Losing employees can have a significant impact on a company’s morale, productivity and overall profit.
Competitive corporate environment it is important that companies pay attention to their employees’ abilities to perform their duties. What is actually important is for companies to continuously study not only how they can perform well for the customers but they also have to address the issue on how they can maintain a highly effective staff. To achieve this they should have strategies in place to measure their employees’ skills, knowledge, and attitude. This will assist in better planning strategies needed to have an effective retention program in place to measure the learning and growth perspective.
Employee retention has always been an important focus for human resource managers. Once a company has invested time and money to recruit and train a good employee, it is in their own best interest to retain that employee, to further develop and motivate him so that he continues to provide value to the organization. But, employers must also recognize and tend to what is in the best interest of their employees, if they intend to keep them. When a company overlooks the needs of its employees and focuses only on the needs of the organization, turnover often results. Excessive turnover in an organization is a prime indicator that something is not right in the employee environment. We will look at
Every organisation in the world today is putting a lot of efforts, time, and resources in the human management. As this is, an excepted reality that no organisation in the world can vie in this globalised world just on the mere basis of their product and services. In order for an organisation to be successful, it has to invest substantially into the domain of people skills, and their behaviour. Due to stressful working environment, many organisations loose employees due to lack of motivation, stress, lower employee job satisfaction and other contributing factors of behavioural sciences and psychology. All these factors have negative effects on the organisation and organizational behaviour simultaneously. Many experts are in concord that