Thursday, November 25, 2021

My HR Blog 5 - Recruitment and Retention

 Recruitment and Retention 

Introduction  

Human Resources are the most important part of an organization, sometimes called the most valued assets. In modern-day's business environments where technology plays a key part in the driving processes and associated tasks, employees are essential to keep them properly functioning. In these situations retention of key staff becomes important.

Retention of key employees helps the organization stability, future planning of the resource requirement, and maintaining high productivity through the seasoned resources.  A competent workforce also supports keeping the cost of recruitment and training low and efferent.

According to Frankeiss, (2008) study, it was found that policies and practices in talent management, recruitment, and retention can help reduce attrition rates. Oracle white paper (2012), it is discussed that recruiting the right person in the first place would be the best practice for the retention of employees. Beardwell and Wright (2012) emphasized in a study that organizations systematic approach to recruitment and selection which would help in decrease in turnover of employees.  


    
                       Source: (Mango Personal 2012) 

Conclusion

As detailed in the literature quoted from expertise, just as the right recruitment retention is very crucial. Having to channel them through the right policies and practices in structure form, when recruiting is likely to sustain longer.  

References

Dunn, N., 20112. Mango Personal. [Online] Available at: www.mangopersonnel.co.uk[Accessed 25 November 2021].

Franckeiss, A. 2008. "Mining the good from the goodbyes". Human resource management international digest.

Oracle white paper (2012)

Beardwell, J., and Wright, M., (2012) Recruitment and Selection: Human resource management: A contemporary approach, Harlow, Pearson Education Limited, 189-229

 

                    




7 comments:

  1. Good and timely topic. Even though we were manege to recruit talented and skilled employees, retaining them is the most difficult task for human resources management. It's so competitive among companies to recruit talented and skilled candidates. Because of this skilled and talented employees most of the time tend to switch jobs for better remuneration and benefits.

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  2. Employees retention is not an easy task to an organisation on this competitive world, cause talented individuals always open more opportunities. Keeping key employees in an organisation would be a huge challenge to most HR managers in the future as result of IT and communication development.

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  3. good topic and interesting article Thanks for shearing

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  4. Most important and one of the key point that decide the success of the organization. it's a challenging task in common business world that recruit the skilled employee and Employees retention. good article!

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  5. Employee recruitment is the process of selecting employees suitable for the job positions and recruiting them by conducting a better recruitment process. It is important to handle a fair recruitment process in order to recruit talented employees. Further, talented employees should be retained by applying effective HRM strategies.

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  6. Employee recruitment and retention are critical to your organization's or business's growth and profitability. However, if you can't keep your current team members, there's little purpose in hiring new ones. Employee retention of qualified people is more vital in the long run for corporate success.
    Employee retention is another critical HR function that describes the amount of employees you keep year after year (or any other specific period of time). Jobs with a greater retention rate are frequently associated with happier and more happy employees (Carver. 2020)

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