Sunday, April 15, 2007

A New Approach to Keeping Your Best on Board


Demographic trends suggest that retaining top talent will be a major competitive imperative for companies in the next decade. So what steps can your organization take to encourage retention? In this article, HMU delves into more than a decade of research by Brooks C. Holtom, Terence R. Mitchell, and Thomas W. Lee on what they term job embeddedness: the more embedded a person is in his job, their research shows, the less likely he is to leave it. This article outlines specific practices that companies and individual managers can implement to increase job embeddedness--and hence, retention.

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