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Keeping your best staff : the human resources challenge in a competitive environment / Paul Mooney.

By: Mooney, Paul.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Irish management briefings.Publisher: Dublin : Oak Tree Press, 1999Description: vi, 101 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1860761542; 9781860761546 .Subject(s): Personnel managementDDC classification: 658.3
Contents:
Part One: The problem -- Defining the labour retention challenge -- Part Two: The short-term solution stopping the haemorrhage of talent -- Labour retention strategy - a short-term model -- Step 1: Why bother? -- Step 2: Understand the numbers -- Step 3: Rolling back the future -- Step 4: Knowledge = Power -- Step 5: Discourage mobility -- Step 6: Measure it and manage it -- Part Three: The long-term solution the ten commandments to turbo-charge your staff -- Excellent performance through people -- The first commandment: Let people in on the BIG picture -- The second commandment: Set crystal clear goalposts - then get off the pitch -- The third commandment: Fill your organisation with turbo-charged project teams -- The fourth commandment: Let everyone wear a white coat -- The fifth commandment: Unchain the right-hand side of the brain -- The sixth commandment: People will embrace change if they construct it -- The seventh commandment: Become an ambiguity sponge - Provide short-term certainty -- The eighth commandment: Expect A? Then reward A -- The ninth commandment: Count the score at the end of the game (and don\'t forget to tell the players) -- The tenth commandment: Celebrate the success - Pump up the volume -- The ten commandments - Conclusion.

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Labour retention has become a major problem for Irish companies, and in this Management Briefing, Paul Mooney shows how you can hold onto your stars. Mooney first provides six essential steps to halting the outflow, and then suggests ten commandments for creating an environment where your staff will want to stay.

Bibliography: p. 101.

Part One: The problem -- Defining the labour retention challenge -- Part Two: The short-term solution stopping the haemorrhage of talent -- Labour retention strategy - a short-term model -- Step 1: Why bother? -- Step 2: Understand the numbers -- Step 3: Rolling back the future -- Step 4: Knowledge = Power -- Step 5: Discourage mobility -- Step 6: Measure it and manage it -- Part Three: The long-term solution the ten commandments to turbo-charge your staff -- Excellent performance through people -- The first commandment: Let people in on the BIG picture -- The second commandment: Set crystal clear goalposts - then get off the pitch -- The third commandment: Fill your organisation with turbo-charged project teams -- The fourth commandment: Let everyone wear a white coat -- The fifth commandment: Unchain the right-hand side of the brain -- The sixth commandment: People will embrace change if they construct it -- The seventh commandment: Become an ambiguity sponge - Provide short-term certainty -- The eighth commandment: Expect A? Then reward A -- The ninth commandment: Count the score at the end of the game (and don\'t forget to tell the players) -- The tenth commandment: Celebrate the success - Pump up the volume -- The ten commandments - Conclusion.

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