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Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business
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Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business

24 Ways to Hang On to Your Most Valuable Talent

Leigh Branham
AMACOM, 2001

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Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Well Structured
  • For Beginners

Recommendation

If you are fed up with recruiting, training and motivating new employees only to see them ride off into the sunset, you probably need to re-think some of your basic approaches to running your business. You can emerge a winner in the now fully joined war for great talent - the inevitable collision of a low unemployment rate with the corporate world’s growing need for skilled workers. Management consultant Leigh Branham has written a lively, thorough guide to keeping great employees. Her book, which is a pleasure to read, is filled with plenty of sound, usable advice and examples from large and small companies. No matter what your industry is or how big your company might be, her guidance is likely to help you keep your best people longer. getAbstract recommends this book to executives and managers. Read it before your competition does.

Take-Aways

  • Employees are frequently on the move, leaving to work for other companies.
  • Employees leave for many reasons, not just salary issues.
  • Frequent turnover cost companies millions of dollars in annual losses.

About the Author

Leigh Branham  is vice president of consulting services for Right Management Consultants, a human resources consulting firm. He lives in Lake Quivera, Kansas.

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