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Beginning with an exit memo written by the composite employee "A.J.," authors Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans explore the truth behind the dissatisfactions of many of today's workers and offer 26 strategies -- from A to Z -- that managers can use to address their concerns and keep them on the team. These strategies are neither difficult nor costly and, through research, tips, and corporate tales drawn from dozens of organizations, the authors provide examples of how these strategies work in some of the best companies in America.

With every employee who walks out the door costing the company up to 200 percent of their annual salary to replace, retention is one of the most important issues facing businesses today. This book gives everyone from the CEO to the front-line supervisor solutions for keeping the employees they simply can't afford to lose.

From the Publisher
You know - they're your talented, committed employees. You love them because they are critical to your success. They are the heart and soul of your organization. They are your stars.. "They're the ones you simply can not afford to lose. And they are the ones your competitors are trying to steal from you.. "So - how will you keep them? How will you get them to stay while others try to entice them away?. "Read the 26 strategies in this book and you will know what to do.

People are a business's most valuable asset in today's fiercely competitive workplace. This book delineates 45 simple strategies for "people reading"--observing a candidate's behavior and predicting what they'll be like in the workplace--that virtually guarantee hiring the best possible candidate for any job.  Topics include:

Pre-Interview Strategies
Strategies During the Interview
Strategies After the Interview
Checking References
Final Strategies

Roger and Sandra Plachy offer an innovative approach to a critical but often tedious and unproductive task: writing job descriptions. Their results-oriented method has revolutionized standard job descriptions, transforming them from mere "laundry lists" of duties or general descriptions of work processes to powerful tools for improving employee performance. Because results-oriented job descriptions emphasize the results desired from performing a particular job and explain why the work is important to the organization, employees better understand the true value of their work and are more committed to fulfilling goals. More Results-Oriented Job Descriptions provides 226 brand new job descriptions in 26 categories, from accounting and finance to warehousing and distribution, that you can use as is or adapt to fit your needs. It also offers guidelines and worksheets for writing original job descriptions, exercises that will improve your writing skills, and explanations of relevant employment laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Five years ago, in Managing Generation X, Bruce Tulgan stunned management by suggesting that the stubborn independence of young workers was more than a temporary irritant. It was the opening shot in the free-agent revolution - a massive rejection of the traditional employment relationship." "Tulgan's message was prophetic. The free-agent mindset quickly swept across the work force, luring people of all ages. But it was his diagnosis of how to deal with the resulting staffing crisis that led Fortune 500 companies - from sleek high-tech operations to old-line manufacturing firms, and even some of the most respected consulting firms - to invite him to teach their managers, step by step, how to get productivity from this new type of workforce." "In Winning the Talent Wars, Tulgan shares with the rest of us what he has learned and taught at the front lines of this war for talent, a war that many see as the single most important challenge business faces in the twenty-first century. Winning the Talent Wars is based on five additional years of research about the character and proclivities of this swelling free-agent labor force. Tulgan also brings to the table valuable, never-before-published stories about how managers at some of America's most influential corporations are quietly coming up with innovative solutions. This is a book that no manager can afford to miss.