A management issues article points out that employee engagement is THE
KEY concept in retention:
Rather than working on employee engagement in parallel with staff retention and talent management, a high quality strategic emphasis on employee engagement will as a matter of course positively influence both staff retention and talent management.
Jan, 2007. http://www.1stexecutive.biz
Interesting comment that high quality strategic emphasis should be placed on employee engagement. 1st Executive’s research study on Australians’ attitudes to work – The Great Divide, published in November 2006, found that 74% of the workforce is looking to move in the next two years. Furthermore, over 60% of employees believe that their career path actually required that they leave their current employer. With research conducted nationally, in a variety of business sizes, this highlights the low engagement levels currently experienced in the employment landscape. The study agrees that there must be a strategic focus placed on employee engagement, and that there are three levels to employee engagement; emloyees must first be ‘Enabled’, then ‘Energised’ to do the work before employees are truly ‘Engaged’, and employers can be comfortably feel their workforce is relatively stable.
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