How to keep the talent you have got
Human Resource Management International Digest
ISSN: 0967-0734
Article publication date: 18 January 2013
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine where high rates of employee attrition are a problem and put forward some possible solutions.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper concentrates on the experience of information technology (IT) firms in India.
Findings
The paper describes how employees seem most likely to leave a company after around five years. The longer an employee remains with a company, the less likely he or she is to leave.
Practical implications
The paper highlights the importance of making employees feel valued, keeping them informed of what is going on in the company, relating their work to the aims of the organization as a whole and ensuring that they have a clear career‐development path.
Social implications
The paper stresses that high rates of employee attrition can harm not only individual companies, but also national economies as a whole.
Originality/value
The paper focuses on the IT industry in India to recommend how to reduce employee attrition.
Keywords
Citation
Bagga, G. (2013), "How to keep the talent you have got", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 3-4. https://doi.org/10.1108/09670731311296401
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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