Sunday, November 28, 2021

 Exit Interview process

 

Introduction

Within a good business culture, the practice of an exit interview will support learning gaps and work addressing pro-actively to control high attrition situations.  Staff are free and very often tend to comment honestly when they are departing than at any other stage. Capitalizing on the situation extracting the information through a structured process and documenting will have long term benefits in dealing with findings  

 

Structure of an exit interview process

Figure 1: Exit Interview Process, Source:  (MBA Skool Team, 2021)


Exit interview could be arranged in the simplest form with the objective of learning the clear reason for the staff to departing. The following structure could support the purpose.

·         Organize a discussion

·         Encourage two-way communication

·         Create a free environment with the assurance that the info will be held confidential

·         Analysis reasons and feedback for required actions to address

The benefit of an exit interview process

It's well worth the time and effort to refine your process—asking the appropriate questions reaps some significant benefits. For example.

·         Cost-effectiveness

·         Understanding employee turnover

·         Increase employee retention

Conclusion

Exit interviews provide information on why people quit, what they loved about their jobs, and where the company can improve. When data is compiled and tracked over time, they are most effective. The concept has been revived as a means of capturing information from departing employees. Exit interviews can be a win–win situation for both the business and the departing employee: the organization retains and shares a piece of the departing person's expertise, while the departing employee articulates distinctive contributions and leaves a mark. (Serrat, 2017)

 

References

MBA Skool Team, 2021. www.mbaskool.com. [Online]
Available at: https://www.mbaskool.com/
[Accessed 27 November 2021].

Serrat, O., 2017. researchgate. [Online]
Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318019346_Conducting_Exit_Interviews
[Accessed 27 11 2021].

 

 


11 comments:

  1. Very interesting topic. Only few companies practices exist interview process. Most of Sri Lankan organisations reluctant to have this process. Exit interview process is the best practice to improve the organisation culture.

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  2. It is quite unusual experience to employees and organisations in Si Lanka cause organizational culture have not developed up to such level. Exit interview is an important to both parties particularly to confess organizational view. Good topic to be discussed.

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  3. Very good and one of the best HR activities that most organizations' HRM teams have even not heard about. you have been very good when explaining the process. My personal comment is that the Exit interview is the mirror of the company where the company can know what are the employee's feelings and what are areas need to improve for the betterment of both employees and employers.

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  4. Useful and interesting article. Exit interview process is one of key point that improve the organizational culture. Since the concept is not much popular, the organizations should move to practice these concept in the firm. there will be advantages for both employee and organization as well as you mentioned in your conclusion.good topic.

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  5. This very important to get idea.why people are resign.

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  6. Interview process should be conducted effectively in order to select most suitable candidates for the job positions. It is important to apply the process of interview in order to improve cost benefits of the employee recruitment.

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  7. Exit interviews can also be used to determine if an employee is leaving for another company, allowing companies to adjust their HR strategy to better target, attract, and retain top talent. Employers use the data gathered from exit interviews to save money by determining what should be improved, altered, or kept the same at both the corporate and departmental levels.

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  8. Exit interview is very important part of employee life cycle ,as the end part we can collect lots of developing factors from that as explain by this blog this is one of win win situation of both parties .

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  10. A conversation between a corporation and an employee who has decided to quit the organization is known as an exit interview. Imagine them as the polar opposite of a job interview: instead of asking why they want to work for your firm, you're asking why they've chosen to quit. The goal is to learn more about why that individual resigned in the hopes of improving the company's operations and preventing other employees from doing the same.

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  11. very interesting topic. Once the recruitment process is properly implemented, the most suitable candidate for the post can be selected. Thanks for sharing valuable knowledge.

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