Staff Recruitment, Retention, & Training Strategies for Community Human Services Organizations


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This book provides practical strategies for managers and supervisors of human services agencies to use in assessing and successfully addressing workforce challenges. Each strategy is described with detailed instructions about how to assess the strategy, develop an intervention plan, and evaluate its effectiveness. Chapters also discuss how and why each strategy should be used. The book includes worksheets, forms, flow charts, and examples of how successful agencies have used these strategies.




The Cambridge Handbook of the Changing Nature of Work


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This handbook provides an overview of the research on the changing nature of work and workers by marshalling interdisciplinary research to summarize the empirical evidence and provide documentation of what has actually changed. Connections are explored between the changing nature of work and macro-level trends in technological change, income inequality, global labor markets, labor unions, organizational forms, and skill polarization, among others. This edited volume also reviews evidence for changes in workers, including generational change (or lack thereof), that has accumulated across domains. Based on documented changes in work and worker behavior, the handbook derives implications for a range of management functions, such as selection, performance management, leadership, workplace ethics, and employee well-being. This evaluation of the extent of changes and their impact gives guidance on what best practices should be put in place to harness these developments to achieve success.




Staff Recruitment and Retention


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A monograph that presents studies on recruitment and retention of direct support professionals, including strategies to reduce turnover of newly-hired staff.




Employee Retention


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The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Recruitment, Selection and Employee Retention


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An unmatched collection of resources perfect for psychologists, scholars, and HR practitioners In The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Recruitment, Selection and Employee Retention, an expert team of authors presents a comprehensive and authoritative perspective on critical issues in employee recruitment, selection, and retention. Every chapter offers an in-depth review of the most recent literature and provides academics, researchers, industry practitioners, and students with a holistic reference to relevant data and theory. The book includes job analyses, biodata, simulation exercises, talent management guides, talent assessment guides for leadership development, and online employee selection strategies.




The Employee Retention Handbook


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Staff turnover is a key issue for HR executives. It costs your organisation money and time. Stephen Taylor looks at the causes of staff turnover and the most effective ways of measuring, costing, predicting and preventing it. With six detailed case studies covering retailers, graduates, engineers, professional services, call centres and the police, this book offers you effective approaches to solve your retention issues.




Recruitment, Retention, and Turnover of Police Personnel


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The recruitment and selection of exceptional personnel are critical to a police department achieving its mission; however, agencies nationwide are experiencing difficulty finding and retaining qualified officers. This book provides a systematic approach to successful employee recruitment in both law and enforcement and criminal justice agencies. The text discusses in detail the legal environment and necessity to develop a diverse workforce. It further outlines the need, benefits, and steps for identifying a department's core values, conducting an organizational assessment, and completing a sta.




Study of Recruitment Strategy: With Reference to Employee Retention in Indian Banking and Insurance Sector


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In India, there is a shortage of banking and insurance talent as there is no formal banking andinsurance education. Therefore, it becomes essential to retain the existing talent. Before anorganization thinks about retaining employees it is essential to have in place a strategy thatattracts the right people. Thus, effective recruitment is the first step to retain staff. This bookaims to present findings of study of recruitment strategy adopted by the banks and insurancecompanies in India and retention of their employees. The study reveals the relationshipbetween recruitment strategy and post-hire outcomes of employee retention like commitment, burnout, and turnover intent. The book is important for both practitioners and futureresearchers. Future researchers can replicate the study to develop recruitment and retentionmodel. Practitioners can improve their recruitment strategy considering its retention effects




Keeping Your Valuable Employees


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Ein Buch für die Praxis! Es setzt sich mit den wichtigsten Problemen auseinander, mit denen HR Manager von heute konfrontiert sind: Wie behält man wertvolle Mitarbeiter angesichts des unerbittlichen Wettbewerbs um qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte. Arbeitnehmer sind sehr verschieden und ebenso verschieden ist ihre Abgrenzung von Berufs- und Privatleben. Deshalb müssen Unternehmen Bedingungen entwerfen, durchsetzen und gewährleisten, die flexibel genug sind, die Besten zu verpflichten und auch zu behalten. Dieser Leitfaden liefert Ihnen Methoden und Techniken zur Bindung von Mitarbeitern und sagt Ihnen genau, wie das funktioniert. Anhand eines systematischen Ansatzes lernen Sie, das neue Arbeitsverhältnis zu verstehen, richtig darauf zu reagieren und Hindernisse zu überwinden. (10/99)




Getting Employees to Fall in Love with Your Company


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In an unstable, lean-and-mean work world, how can companies ensure employee motivation and enthusiasm without sacrificing productivity and profit? This reader-friendly, hands-on guide offers dozens of action ideas for creating a positive, high-energy workplace. Brief case studies give insight into three exemplary high-performance companies: Home Depot, "The St. Petersburg Times", and Southwest Airlines.