Retaining Your Best People: The Results Driven Manager

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The Results-Driven Manager series brings together timely articles from HBSP newsletters to help senior to middle managers sharpen their skills, increase their effectiveness and gain a competitive... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591399734
• ISBN13: 9781591399735
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Harvard Business Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent info, if only companies will read it!

I'm not sure how much time employers spend "building a culture of retention" in their workforce. Sure, you might find bonuses if applicable, but I have not seen a business that will go out of their way to promote and keep good employees. The task is monumental and requires many in management to recognize and propose strategies. And sometimes there is more to working than a few financial bonuses. Unfortunately striving isn't done much, companies seem to have great turnover and maybe the trend will continue way past my time on earth. The book has plenty of help, starting with references and tips from the Human Resource Management Study, great perspective from HR leaders. The book's next focus is on keeping the star employees. I like the quote: "people don't leave companies, they leave bad bosses." Now that is something for companies to understand!! Why don't they? The question for many bosses is answered: Why do people want to work with you, scouting, building their trust, how to manage people, and most important, you will learn some coaching skills. Managers: Take heed of this advice. What is also discussed is managing the labor shortage; the baby boomers, outsourcing, reinventing the workplace, etc. This book is all about the companies, managers, bosses, and keeping good employees. It's easy to read with shaded boxed areas for relevance to specific issues. There is no index, but a good table of contents. The Harvard Business Review publishes numerous books on management, business, leadership, corporations, etc. The list is impressive. This paperback on Retaining Good Employees is great information, if only managers would read it....Rizzo

Some great ideas for keeping your best employees...

This book is written by different people and they all offer great ideas on how to keep your best employees from leaving. It pretty much boils down to one thing...talk to your employees, find out what they want and try to give it to them. The authors say an employee rarely stays because of the salary. More than money they want praise for their work, they want to be appreciated. Some of these people are Human Resource people who have worked for IBM, Fedex and other big companies on plans on keeping the employees happy and productive. It covers how to keep them from moving on to a better company, letting them work more flexible hours, how to talk to them and how to listen to what they are and what they aren't saying. It is a very helpful book and not written just for CEO's, but for the normal every day person also. Whether you have 2 employees or thousands, you can learn a lot from it and get some ideas to help you out. You will learn that some employees stay out of loyalty because they respect their bosses or the company. It's not always about how much money they make, like I said before. It tells of ways to inspire that loyalty. It shows what can happen if a good employee leaves and takes their ideas with them. Also, it tells why a lot of women leave the workforce and how you can keep them. Well written and easy to read and you learn a lot!

Packed with good information

This book is excellent! Even in rough economic times, the book makes a wonderful point, that even though the job market might be flooded with candidates now, it makes sense to take the "long term view" on trying to retain your current top talent. Related to that point, the book helps the reader understand, that there is always a market for excellent employees, in both good times and bad. The three core areas, which include various articles on the topic are: Engaging your workers Customizing techniques to employee types Extracting maximum value from Employees This works out to be a very balanced approach and is provided in easily digestible bites. I'm looking forward to the other "Results-Driven manager" books in this Harvard press series.

Retaining Your Best People: The Results Driven Manager

Retaining Your Best People: The Results Driven Manager offers a sensible approach to people-management. Much of the text is outdated for 2009, especially discussion about financial incentives (i.e. employee raises); however, the book attempts to explore what people want - for themselves and their organizations. Topics covered include how to engage workers; customization by employee-type; extracting maximum value; retention strategies; benefits; commitment; feedback; relationship building; trust formation; employee satisfaction; recognition and reward; empowerment, plus much more. "Retaining Your Best People" is recommended for members of management in any organization, or students in the field of business and other leadership careers.

Best paperback people management book I've ever experienced

This is the best investment of 2 hours reading on people management I've experienced. Most paperback people management books are motivational writing, though admittedly I've read only a few. These provide a general philosophical goal (e.g. be good to your employees) and then describe how wonderful the results are. The motivational books don't really tell the tactical challenges involved; and even the philosophical goals of the motivational books are partial, in that their partial view is claimed to be a whole fix-all. Other people-management books I've read are usually dry textbooks--I've never managed to be able to read through these, as I keep falling asleep. Retaining Your Best People is easy to read and filled with practical, insightful suggestions. I've always thought Harvard Business Review provided excellent reading, and this fast-reading book is far superior to the other paperback people management books I've read.