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The 7 hidden reasons employees leave: how to recognize the subtle signs and act before it's too late
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
ch. 1. Why care about why they leave? --
Managers will not hear what workers will not speak --
Turnover : just a "cost of doing business?" --
When the tide turns, mindsets must change --
What about HR's role in exit interviewing? --
ch. 2. How they disengage and quit --
The disengagement process --
The deliberation process --
ch. 3. Why they leave : what the research reveals --
Why employees say they leave --
What caused their initial dissatisfaction? --
A few words about pay --
Respecting the differences --
Who has the power to meet these needs? --
The next seven chapters : hidden reasons and practical actions --
ch. 4. Reason #1 : the job or workplace was not as expected --
Hidden mutual expectations : the psychological contract --
How to recognize the warning signs of unmet expectations --
Obstacles to meeting mutual expectations --
Engagement practices for matching mutual expectations --
How prospective employees can do their part --
The beginning or ending of trust --
Employer-of-choice engagement practices review and checklist --
ch. 5. Reason #2 : the mismatch between job and person --
What's missing : a passion for matching --
Common misconceptions and truths about talent --
Recognizing the signs of job-person mismatch --
Obstacles to preventing and correcting job-person mismatch --
Best practices for engaging and re-engaging through job task assignment --
The employee's role in the matching process --
Employer-of-choice engagement practices review and checklist --
ch. 6. Reason #3 : too little coaching and feedback --
Why coaching and feedback are important to engagement and retention --
Why don't managers provide coaching and feedback? --
Recognizing the signs --
More than an event : it's about the relationship --
Engagement practices for coaching and giving feedback --
A five-step coaching process --
What the employee can do to get more feedback and coaching --
Employer-of-choice engagement practices review and checklist --
ch. 7. Reason #4 : too few growth and advancement --
What they are really saying --
Employers of choice start by understanding the new career realities --
Recognizing the signs of blocked growth and career frustration --
Best practices for creating growth and advancement opportunities --
What employees can do to create their own growth and advancement opportunities --
ch. 8. Reason #5 : feeling devalued and unrecognized --
Why managers are reluctant to recognize --
Recognizing the signs that employees feel devalued and unrecognized --
Pay : the most emotional issue of all --
Pay practices that engage and retain --
Three types of variable pay --
The total rewards approach to scarce talent --
Nonpay best practices for valuing and recognizing people --
Focus on the people, not just the numbers --
What employees can do to be more valued and better recognized --
Employer-of-choice engagement practice review and checklist --
ch. 9. Reason #6 : stress from overwork and work-life imbalance --
How big a problem is stress? --
Causes of increased stress --
Signs that your workers may be stressed-out or overworked --
Healthy vs. toxic cultures --
More than just the right thing to do --
The best places in America to work --
It's not just the "big boys" you're competing with --
A big menu of benefits and services --
What the employee can do to relieve stress and overwork --
Employee-of-choice engagement practices review and checklist --
ch. 10. Reason #7 : loss of trust and confidence in senior leaders --
A crisis of trust and confidence --
Reading the signs of distrust and doubt --
The three questions employees need answered --
Criteria for evaluating whether to trust and have confidence --
What the employee can do to build reciprocal trust and confidence --
Employer-of-choice engagement practices review and checklist --
ch. 11. Planning to become an employer of choice --
Talent engagement strategies in action --
What do we learn from these success stories? --
Linking talent and business objectives --
Linking the right measures to business results --
Creating an employer-of-choice scorecard --
The plan works... if you work the plan --
Partners in working the plan --
Appendix A : Summary checklist of employer-of-choice engagement practices --
Appendix B : Guidelines and considerations for exit interviewing/surveying and turnover analysis --
Bibliography --
Index.
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