Getting
Engaged: The New Workplace Loyalty
Are
your competitors raiding the ranks of your most talented
employees? If they haven't yet, they soon will.
By
Chobi Liang
The
workplace is changing, and it's all because of a
paradigm shift away from the status quo. For years, organizations
have assumed that departing employees can always be replaced.
They've had the luxury of treating employees like
replaceable parts because replacing them has been relatively
easy.
But
this approach works only when the supply of workers
is greater than the demand for their services. In the
next few months there will be more jobs than there will
be talented people to fill them, and this will continue
to be the case for years to come. No one
can remember a time when this was the case.
So instead of replacing the employees who leave, managers
need to start thinking of ways to keep the talent they
already have.
Dr.
Tim Rutledge's new book, Getting Engaged: The New
Workplace Loyalty, explores the employee retention
crisis that currently looms on the horizon, and suggests
best practices and better management techniques that
can keep your top performers engaged with their work,
and make them less inclined to leave your organization.
According
to Dr. Rutledge, employee engagement begins with the relationship
between managers and their staffs.
"There
was a time when many managers believed that their managerial
responsibilities came to an end once they had 'brought
the new guy up to speed,'" explains Dr. Rutledge.
"Today, we know that [on-boarding] is just the beginning
of the manager's job."
Employees
also look to their managers to help keep them marketable
- they expect challenging work, recognition of their
achievements, and opportunities to learn and grow on the
job. Managers who fail to manage their employees'
expectations "can expect their top talent to leave
their company," warns Dr. Rutledge.
Other
topics explored in Getting Engaged: The New Workplace
Loyalty include the death and rebirth of loyalty,
the meaning of fairness in today's workplace, and applying
rewards versus applying recognition.
The
book, Getting Engaged: The New Workplace Loyalty,
by Dr. Tim Rutledge, is available in early October.
To reserve your copy, please e-mail Chobi Liang at liang@iqpartners.com.
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