In a recovering marketplace, employees you once thought were loyal often get attracted by your competitors and may move on to what they perceive as greener pastures. Adrian Everett discusses how you can keep them in your team.
Attrition is a natural occurrence for any organisation, no matter how wonderful your value proposition to your workforce may be. With the SAP marketplace picking up at a rate of knots, it is essential to be proactive in your retention strategies or you risk seeing key resources move to your competitors at great expense to your organisation.
Control growth – choose employees with care
It is essential that the focus on employee retention begins during the initial employment screening process. While a strong market means increasing client demands and a decreasing pool of available candidates, do NOT let this compromise your quality focus when interviewing and employing additional resources. Is it worth risking the costs associated with attrition and at the same time potentially compromising your brand by taking on a resource that you have doubts over?
Constant communications
We’ve all heard it before, but it is essential to have constant communication with your employees from an organisational direction and strategic level down to individual roles, job descriptions and responsibilities. Communicate policy changes, customer wins, growth figures, successful Go-Lives, pipelines, partnerships, new products… EVERYTHING! The greater the communication, the more your employees will feel a part of your organisation and direction and you will build greater employee
Click here to read the full article in the December 2010 edition of InsideSAP.
