Download or read book Improving Employee Retention in the Public Sector by Increasing Employee Engagement written by Durand Crosby and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poor reputation and low salaries has made retaining a talented workforce in the public sector more difficult over the past several decades, resulting in some to declare that the public sector is in the midst of a “human capital crisis.” However, in order to improve public's image of government, it is vital for public agencies to retain talented and experienced employees. It is our position that to improve retention, public agencies must increase levels of employee engagement in their work, which in turn will increase employee commitment and satisfaction. We posit that to create an engaged workforce, public managers must recruit individuals with high levels of public service motivation, link their employees with the meaningfulness of the organization's mission to the community, and utilize social marketing, reputation management, and branding initiatives to foster a better image and reputation for their organization. The present research will test these assumptions in public service organizations.
Download or read book Engaging Government Employees written by Robert Lavigna and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over three decades of experience in public sector HR, Bob Lavigna gives managers the tools they need to leverage the talents of government's most important resource: its people. You know firsthand that your government workers are not underworked, overpaid, or mindless clones just carrying out the morally compromised work that politicians forced through the pipeline. Besides having to daily overcome the persona of being a government employee, your hard-working employees face enormous pressures and challenges every day and are asked to solve some of our country’s toughest problems, including unemployment, security, poverty, and education. To be able to return to their desks daily with the passion and commitment required to accomplish these overwhelming duties will require a manager who knows how to leverage talent, improve performance, and inspire passion within these true servants. In Engaging Government Employees, you will learn: Why a highly engaged staff is 20 percent more productive How to get employees to deliver “discretionary effort” How to assess the level of engagement Why free pizza and Coke every Friday is not a viable strategy Engaging Government Employees rejects the typical one-size-fits-all approach to motivation. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence, this indispensable resource shows how America’s largest employer can apply the science of engagement to get team members passionate about the agency’s mission and committed to its success.
Download or read book Employee Engagement and Retention written by Nate Martinez-Wayman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Sector Leaders Strategies to Improve Employee Retention written by Michael D. Izard-Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employee Retention in the Public Sector written by Tamara Harutyunyan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee retention is regarded by scholars as an important factor that contributes highly to the success of an organization. Over the years, the public sector has witnessed a high turnover rate of their employees, which, in turn has affected productivity. Strategies on how to keep employees committed to their work has therefore become a challenge. The current literature indicates that many factors that affect public sector employee's intention to stay. However, the present study attempts to find out the various factors affecting employee retention. Questionnaires will be sent to various government agencies for employees to answer. The research will look closely at the broad factors as determinants for employee retention. More specifically, it will look at career advancement and developmental opportunities at the local level of government, and provide insight regarding the main motivators for an employee's desire to stay.
Download or read book NEED AND IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN ORGANIZATION RELATED TO HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT written by S.Tephillah vasantham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manufacturing Engagement written by Lisa Ryan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are looking for employee engagement ideas, you're in the right place. It's no secret. Your employees' satisfaction level is a key factor in staff retention. With the high costs associated with your employee turnover rate, it's important to figure out your retention strategies now. Employee engagement is a widely used term, so much so that many organizations consider it cliche and don't take the concept as seriously as they should. There is a big difference between employee satisfaction and happiness. A satisfied employee shows up at work, does his or her job and leaves. On the other hand, when employees are emotionally committed to their employer, they are said to be highly engaged. Your employees are no longer working simply for a paycheck or promotion. Newer generations want to care about both their work and the organization they for which they do their job. Engaged employees bring in their full effort so that they contribute more to the organization's overall goals. Why does discretionary effort matter? Because it means that they are doing their job without being asked, lowering their need to be constantly supervised and increasing their productivity, levels of customer service, sales, profits, and goodwill. In short, employee engagement achievement is vital for employees and their employers. Face it; your best employees have the power to take their skills elsewhere. And that leaves your leadership team with an enormous challenge: winning the war for top talent! You need employee retention techniques that work. Taking an employee engagement survey is a good first step, but without followup action to connect with and engage your team, your survey efforts alone are futile. This employee disengagement trend reaches far beyond just manufacturing. The Gallup organization reports close to 71% of all staff feel unsupported, detached, or disengaged from their current employer. The impact costs US businesses more than $450 billion in lost productivity each year. In this book, you'll find many strategies to will help you experience the benefits of having an engaged workforce. Open up the book to any page and implement the ideas and strategies listed. Encourage and empower your leadership team to go beyond the engagement questionnaire. Find out what employees want to increase their satisfaction levels and then help them get it. The bad news is that disengagement levels have been about the same for companies overall since Gallup and other organizations started measuring engagement levels. The good news is we already know how to discourage top talent from leaving: keep them engaged. With an engaged workforce, employees work harder, have fewer safety incidents, and are more loyal and profitable to their company. Studies show that engaged employees have: - 50% fewer accidents - 41% fewer quality defects - 30% fewer health care costs Not surprisingly, unhappy workers return only 60% of their salary in the value they provide. With an estimated five million manufacturing jobs going unfilled by 2020, it's time to take smart steps to make sure your company isn't affected. That means creating a workplace culture that works ... based on proven results, fresh ideas and new ways of generating loyalty from your staff. Use the employee engagement strategies in this book to help your company be an employer of choice. Engagement techniques work - if you work them!
Download or read book Federal Employee Engagement and Performance written by Howard R. Simpson and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on both private- and public-sector organisations has found that increased levels of engagement -- generally defined as the sense of purpose and commitment employees feel toward their employer and its mission -- can lead to better organisational performance. Employee engagement is particularly important within federal agencies, where employees influence the well-being and safety of the public in myriad ways, such as by conducting advanced scientific research, verifying and administering benefits, or ensuring the safety of our workplaces, airports, and national borders. This book describes trends in employee engagement from 2006 through 2014; identifies practices in improving employee engagement; and evaluates the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) tools and resources to support employee engagement. The book also examines what engages Federal employees -- that is, what contributes to a heightened connection between Federal employees and their work or their organisation.
Download or read book Mr How To written by Jennifer A. Carsen and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retention written by Peter R. Garber and published by Human Resource Development. This book was released on 2008 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts predict a serious shortage of employees in the United States over the next decade as Baby Boomers begin to retire. If retaining people isn't one of your top priorities, Retention will convince you to make it one immediately. Peter Garber delivers hundreds of low-cost ways to reduce employee turnover and provide a more motivating work environment - one that will make employees look forward to coming to work each day. In nine chapters, the book focuses on two challenges: How to keep employees from going to another organization and keep them interested and focused on their jobs. This book is part of the HR Skills Series designed to help managers plan for and manage changes in such areas as consumer demand, workforce turnover, and production and performance standards.
Download or read book State of The Global Workplace written by Gallup and published by Gallup Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged at work. This represents a major barrier to productivity for organizations everywhere – and suggests a staggering waste of human potential. Why is this engagement number so low? There are many reasons — but resistance to rapid change is a big one, Gallup’s research and experience have discovered. In particular, organizations have been slow to adapt to breakneck changes produced by information technology, globalization of markets for products and labor, the rise of the gig economy, and younger workers’ unique demands. Gallup’s 2017 State of the Global Workplace offers analytics and advice for organizational leaders in countries and regions around the globe who are trying to manage amid this rapid change. Grounded in decades of Gallup research and consulting worldwide -- and millions of interviews -- the report advises that leaders improve productivity by becoming far more employee-centered; build strengths-based organizations to unleash workers’ potential; and hire great managers to implement the positive change their organizations need not only to survive – but to thrive.
Download or read book Leadership Style and Employee Retention written by Maria Diaz and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee retention in the Los Angeles County Public Sector has been a common concern among the leaders of the organization. Employees are often switching departments for various reasons; however, one of the most prominent reasons is because of their managers and leadership styles. Several scholars have studied this phenomenon in various organizations offering several solutions. This paper provides insight into Organization X within the Los Angeles County Public Sector and provides various solutions to the issue of employee turnover rates. The purpose of this study is to explore and describe how leadership styles of organization X in the Los Angeles public sector affect employee retention. What role do manager styles of Organization X in the Public Sector play in employee retention, and what strategies can be used to reduce turnover intention in employees? A sample size of 197 out of 400 employees within Organization X will be randomly selected to complete a questionnaire on their perspective of the leaders within Organization X, such as the leadership styles and traits, and f the researcher interviewed five managers on their perspective of employee retention. The findings of this study could reveal that leadership traits and styles influence employee retention. Further research is recommended to develop effective strategies to reduce employee attrition.
Download or read book Building a Sustainable Workforce in the Public Transportation Industry A Systems Approach written by Candace Blair Cronin and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2013 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This is] "a guidebook that addresses contemporary issues in workforce development, retention, and attraction, and public transportation image management. [It] is separated into modules that may be used independently or together [...]. Information across the modules is in the form of example successful programs, state-of-the-art initiatives, industry effective practices, and directions to implement and measure those practices. The results of this research may be used by human resource professionals and transportation policy makers in implementing more effective human resource business-planning processes"--Foreword.
Download or read book Employee Engagement in Human Resource Management Practices and Work Motivation in the Public Sector written by Grace Mejia Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an altruistic public sector employee it is imperative to exemplify qualities of motivation and high levels of engagement within their organization. Public sector employees and the organization thrive and grow together when their goals are aligned. There is a belief that public sector employees are uninspired, lazy and deliver subpar services to their organizations and communities because they are overworked and underpaid. This study will examine how the impact of motivation, compensation, levels of engagement and work environmental factors might influence and affect employee performance. The purpose of having motivation is to also feel self-fulfillment in one's role to make a difference and also feel a connection to the organizations mission. The organization that will be part of the research study to measure motivation and engagement will be the "Department of Children and Family Services". Approximately 216 social workers will be recruited to be a part of 4 clusters (groups) of focus groups within the greater Los Angeles area. Additionally, to gauge a better idea without any influences from their coworkers in-depth interviews will be held with 20 social workers to have one-on-one interactions with each other, so that researchers can focus on their own personal realities of what it is like to keep constant motivation and engagement with the never-ending pressures being a social worker.
Download or read book Engaged written by Linda Holbeche and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-biased, grounded, and practical approach to employee engagement For managers and business leaders who want to enhance performance, this easy-to-use guide to employee management offers real solutions for getting workers engaged and increasing productivity. It explains what employee engagement is, why it matters, what the benefits of it are, what helps and hinders it, how to measure it, how to put theory into action when trying to create it. As an added benefit, it offers plenty of advice on how managers can keep themselves engaged, even during the toughest of times.
Download or read book Investigation of the Effects of Employee Engagement and Affective Commitment on Retention written by Basel Al-Jabari and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's business climate, attracting and retaining the best employees are two major challenges to organizational managers. Two factors important for increasing employee retention are affective commitment (AC) and employee engagement (EE). This study investigated the effects of AC and EE (the study independent variables) on employee retention (the study dependent variable) using self-report methodology in a cross-sectional sample of 244 employees from the education, hospitality, media services, and technology industries. Demographic characteristics of the study sample were tested as moderators of the AC-retention and EE-retention relationships. Self-report data were obtained from an online survey that measured demographic characteristics (i.e., gender, age, ethnicity, level of education, pay type, years at current organization, and years of overall work experience), AC (i.e., employee emotional commitment to his or her organization), EE (i.e., employee engagement within his or her organization in terms of OCB, job satisfaction, and self-efficacy), and employee retention (i.e., the intention to remain employed within the organization for up to 5 years, up to 10 years, and through retirement). Results of this study provide strong empirical support that AC and EE are significant positive predictors of employee retention, measured as employee intention to remain employed within the organization up to 5 years, up to 10 years, and through retirement. The effects of demographic characteristics tested as moderators of the ACretention and EE-retention relationships also provide empirical support that an employee's years of employment at his organization moderates the positive effect of AC and EE on retention through retirement such that employees with > 15 years of employment at their organization report higher AC and EE. Additionally, the results provide empirical support that an employee's level of education moderates the positive effect of EE on retention through retirement as evidenced by higher EE scores in participants with more education. Recommendations are made to increase retention by increasing AC and EE. For example, recommendations are made to increase AC by promoting organizational citizenship in the organization, optimizing HR practices aimed at job characteristics (e.g.,flexible work schedule, compensation), and optimizing supervisor support and leadership style. Recommendations are also made to increase EE by talent management (e.g., HR policies and procedures that address employee performance, such as training), mentoring, and leadership style.
Download or read book Managing Employee Retention written by Jack J. Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-18 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade, employee turnover has become a very serious problem for organizations. Managing retention and keeping the turnover rate below target and industry norms is one of the most challenging issues facing business. All indications point toward the issue compounding in the future and, even as economic times change, turnover will continue to be an important issue for most job groups. Yet despite these facts employee turnover continues to be the most unappreciated and undervalued issue facing business leaders. There are a variety of reasons for this, for example, the true cost of employee turnover is often underestimated. The causes of turnover are not adequately identified, and solutions are often not matched with the causes, so they fail. Preventive measures are either not in place or do not target the issues properly, and therefore have little or no effect, and a method for measuring progress and identifying a monetary value (ROI) on retention does not exist in most organizations. 'Managing Employee Retention' is a practical guide for managers to retain their talented employees. It shows how to manage and monitor turnover and how to develop the ROI of keeping your talent using innovative retention programs. The book presents a logical process of managing retention, from identifying turnover costs and causes, designing solutions that match the causes of turnover, developing tools for tracking turnover and placing alerts when action is needed, and measuring the ROI of retention programs.
