Staff Recruitment and Retention:Strategies for Effective Action

Alastair Evans

Alastair Evans is course director of the CIPD programme and senior lecturer in human resources management at Thames Valley University,London, UK. He has held positions as personnel director and HR director in the computer industry and worked for the Institute of Personnel Management as policy advisor in the field of employee resourcing. He has published books on HRM and is a consulting editor of the British Personnel Management journal.

Readership
Human resources or personnel directors, managers and executives in busy offices needing to reduce the costs associated with recruitment and retention. Strategies described in this book for improving performance in recruitment and retention offer organisations opportunities for achieving cost savings and some competitive advantage. Surveys have shown recruitment and retention can be a problem in all parts of the world, particularly in Britain, USA, the rest of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Summary
The book is concerned with two of the most critical issues facing managers today: how to recruit staff who will perform effectively and, having recruited them how to keep and motivate them.
Surveys of managers from around the world indicate that recruitment and retention rank amongst the most pressing issues faced by organisations currently and in the foreseeable future. Effective strategies for recruitment and retention are increasingly being recognised as central to improving the financial performance of organisations in the competitive global market.
This book outlines practical steps to help ensure that the most suitable candidates are selected and offers a range of proven strategies for enhancing staff retention that busy managers can immediately adopt.

Contents
PART 1 – RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION
Preparing to recruit; Methods of recruitment; Techniques of selection

PART 2 – STAFF RETENTION
Retention and labour turnover: a review of the issues; The role of induction in staff retention; Designing jobs which motivate and retain staff; Performance management and staff retention; Retaining staff through the work life balance; Bibliography.

Chandos Publishing l Oxford l England

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